Quotes About Overcoming

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

The single most important way to win over panic attacks is to respond to them from a different point of view. To get better, you don't struggle with anxiety, you don't try to get rid of the uncomfortable sensations, you don't avoid threatening situations. You choose to take a different attitude toward them. With this new attitude in place, you will know what actions to take.

When faced with a challenge (be it a hurricane or a struggling business or a reluctance to start writing), we must decide to act and then we must act. We should perceive our worries as an indication that we should meet our challenges head on, cut right to the heart of them, and take action. Otherwise, we'll be in the aftermath of the storm, sitting and staring at that old tree that's collapsed onto our patio, and asking, "Well, what now?

There is no shame in scars, Ismae.

If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.

Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca

My clouds, sorrowing in the dark, forget that they themselves have hidden the sun.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.

Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves. I was left with a kind of blankness, Jeffers, from those years of being afraid.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Someone taught me this really lovely thing, which is when you're panicking or thinking, 'I can't do this, I can't do this,' you just say, 'Right. Hi, negative thoughts. Stop bothering me. If you just wait there, I'm going to do this job, then I'll come back and talk to you later.'

I'm pretty forgiving, so sometimes I forget how evil people were to me. Then I think, 'Wait a minute. Don't let them get you.' Then I hit 'ignore' on FaceBook.

I remember reaching college and having to introduce myself at every class, it was terrifying. I waited fists clenched as one by one my classmates said their names out loud and when it was my turn I simpered and squeezed out a barely audible introduction, my face burned as if it was on fire.