Quotes About Overcoming

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

There is no shame in falling," Pernicar said, standing up. "There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again.

Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong.

Before you decide to kill yourself, attempt the impossible.

The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."4

Refuse to become a hopeless victim. God wants to heal your heart, fill you with the power of hope, and cause you to be bold in Him. Hope-killing giants look small when measured against Him. Be

Each trick mastered will free you just a little more from your feelings of inadequacy and frustration.

Don't waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don't let them.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Problems are a major part of life. Don't whine about why you always have problems…get on with the solving. Take it from someone who has been there–the solving gets easier as you go along.

It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.