Quotes about Overcoming
It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
- Charles Dickens
When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.
- Gregory Dickow
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Alan Redpath wrote of Caleb and Joshua's faith: "The majority measured the giants against their own strength; Caleb and Joshua measured the giants against God. The majority trembled; the two triumphed. The majority had great giants but a little God. Caleb had a great God and little giants.
- James Montgomery Boice
Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.
- Germany Kent
The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!
- Germany Kent
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
- Matshona Dhliwayo