Quotes about Overcoming

We all have scars. Some are visible and others aren't, but they are there all the same. Your scar makes you no less worthy.

God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.