Quotes about Overcoming
Add a note This is what the love of God is like: it is free and therefore it is both all-powerful and completely vulnerable. All-powerful because it is always free to overcome, but vulnerable because it has no way of guaranteeing worldly success. The love of God belongs to a different order, not the order of power, manipulation and getting on top, which is the kind of power that pre-occupies us.
— Rowan Williams
greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
— Anonymous
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
— Michael Jordan
God will give you strength when you think you can't go on. He will give you joy when you should be discouraged. He can make a way when it looks impossible.
— Joel Osteen
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
— William Wordsworth
Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.
— TB Joshua
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.
— Jay-Z
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
— Norman Vincent Peale
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
— Thomas Merton