Quotes about Overcoming

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).

In the world you will have tribulation.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak