Quotes about Overcoming

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.

I know you feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

You will never be enough, Ford. When you are weak, because of Him, you are strong.

It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond. Being broken, being empty is part of life. But how we fill up those empty places, how we heal - that's what matters.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

Beethoven was deaf, Milton was blind, but their names will last as long as time endures, because they dreamed and translated their dreams into organized thought.