Quotes About Overcoming

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes when we're in the darkest places we find the brightest light

They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grown and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak.

It takes many, many coats to cover the red. No matter what I do, it seeps right through, like the walls are bleeding.

Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy.