Quotes About Overcoming

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

Perfectionism was my enemy now.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

From my own experience, I realized that there are many other reasons we procrastinate, starting with fear.

Too afraid of dying to really live.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

I remember I had lunch with John Travolta when he was in the doldrums. I mean, he was, as they say, box office poison. He said to me something so great. He said, "I wasn't that good, and I'm not this bad.

What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying

This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.

If you freak out over trivial everyday grievances, how are you going to handle *real* problems?

Rod exemplifies the attitude that Losing It is no big deal. He saw that fate coming, and he was already planning to get over it.

It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.

In Cody's version

ROBERT A. CARTER

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.

leaders need to help people overcome the four "work-avoidance mechanisms" that most of the rest of us carry around in our heads. Those mechanisms are denial that a problem exists, the desire to escape responsibility even when we recognize the problem, the tendency to scapegoat others for causing it, and—worst of all—cynicism about the possibility of ever remedying the problem.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

Out of the wreck I rise.

We must work hard at overcoming the natural tendency to see causal connections and other patterns where there are none by examining all the evidence, not just the data that support our gut feeling. Critical thinking, skepticism, and science did not evolve on the savannah millions of years ago. They are unnatural and go against the grain of those instincts that helped our species survive for hundreds of thousands of years.