Quotes About Overcoming

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Don't major on the fall, major on getting up!

Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have any idea what the word even meant.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.

Being brave isn't about being unafraid. It's about functioning through the fear.

Jessica Andersen

Inevitably bouts with obstacles offer discouragement as you cut every tether holding you from freedom.

I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.

But there is one good thing about hearing your deepest fear spoken out loud - nothing else that made you afraid before will ever seem so large or terrible again.

I beat myself up enough with this fight club in my head that I know what can happen if I invite new members.

Du bist noch krank, meinte Fabian Du hast sie noch lieb. Das ist wahr, sagte Labude. Aber ich bin schon mit ganz anderen Kerlen fertiggeworden als mit mir.

The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back. Our ideal is the impassive courage of a statue. Unnecessary. Be sad and then you'll soon be over it.

We thought to build us houses, we desired gardens with terraces, for we wanted to look out upon the sea and to feel the wind, but we did not think that a house needs foundations. We are like those abandoned fields full of shell holes in France, no less peaceful than the other ploughed lands about them, but in them are lying still the buried explosives, and until these shall have been dug out and cleared away, to plough will be a danger both to plougher and ploughed.

Deep down I'm still afraid, but at least I can deal with it.

Living better is the best revenge

History is full of lessons about the redemption of Lost Causes.

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

Through endurance we conquer.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.