Quotes about Overcoming

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you. And so I don't know. I know there is condemnation, but I don't feel that's my place.