Quotes About Overcoming

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

When life gives you lemons, throw them back.

Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.