Quotes about Overcoming

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

We are all broken — that's how the light gets in.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.

I realize today that it is impossible to fight an enemy living in my head. By forgiving myself, I erase the doubts, fears, and frustration that have kept my past in the present. From this day forward, my history will cease to control my destiny. I have forgiven myself. My life has just begun. I will forgive even those who do not ask for forgiveness. I will forgive those who criticize me unjustly. I will forgive myself. I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt

All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistence.