Quotes about Overcoming
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
— Edith Wharton
God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.
— Edward Welch
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
— Albert Schweitzer
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
— Joyce Meyer
I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.
— Geeta Phogat
Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.
— Judith Durham
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As my father, Saint Francis, put it, "If you have once faced the great death, the second death can do you no harm.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
— Rick Warren
You can't grow strong without resistance.
— Rick Warren