Quotes about Overcoming

Think back for a moment on your own history -- not just where you were born or where you grew up, but the circumstances that contributed to your being right here, right now. What were the moments along the way that wounded or scared you? Chances are, you've had a few. But here's what's remarkable: You are still here, still standing.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

If you have faith, even if it's as little as a mustard seed, you can move mountains.

I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus. And as you walk into what you fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

The stone had been rolled away... That fact alone demands a response.

Sometimes, given their depth, we become little more than the sum of our wounds, and it takes someone else to see what we can be instead of what we are.