Quotes about Overcoming
Don't let your failures define you.
— Barack Obama
Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.
— Barack Obama
The trick is not caring that it hurts.
— Barack Obama
I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.
— Stephen Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.
— Stephen Covey
In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.
— Stephen Covey
Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
— Rick Warren
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
— Barbara Johnson
Evil is always temporary. "The worst does not last." Nothing counter to God's justice has any eternity to it.
— Eugene Peterson
One day they were making "bricks without straw" and the next they were running up the far slopes of the Red Sea, shouting the great song "I'm singing my heart out to GOD—what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea! GOD is my strength.
— Eugene Peterson
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.
— Ezra Furman