Quotes about Overcoming

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

We can't be brave without fear.

You don't lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you stay down.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

You must never allow your human weakness to disqualify you for what God has planned for you. Your failures do not prove that you are wicked; they simply prove that you are human. Though you are filled with God, it's important to remember that you're a human being who is filled with God. —Don Nori, The Prayer God Loves to Answer