Quotes about Overcoming
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway
When life hands you lemons make lemonade ! After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!
— Elbert Hubbard
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear in the face... Do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Timidity and shyness are fears of this sort. Unimportant, perhaps, but they are crippling to self-confidence and to achievement.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
— Arianna Huffington