Quotes about Overcoming

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

It is instructive to compare the Meditations with another famous book, the Imitation of Christ. There is the same ideal of self-control in both. It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

The obstacle is the way.

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.

It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.