Quotes About Overcoming

Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

With life many things are remedied.

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Briefly, prayer warfare simply means holding unceasingly the power of the "finished work of Christ" over the hosts of evil, in their attack upon some place or person, until the victory is won. Just as Moses lifted his hands stedfastly until the victory was won, so the prayer warrior holds up stedfastly the victory of the cross—the finished victory of Christ over Satan—until the forces of evil retreat and are vanquished.

A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.

Life takes each of us to the anvil, shapes us with fire and hammer, and some of us break while some of us become stronger, more able to face the day. Even happy.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.

Learning to read again was by far the hardest thing I had to do. I don't know if those cells in my brain had died or what, but I had no recollection that reading was something I had ever done before, and I thought the concept was ridiculous.

The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life.

hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.

despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

Don't worry about a lost finger," Darnak said gently. "Many an adventurer has lost a finger, or worse, and still gone on to accomplish great things. Have you heard the song of . . . I forget his name. The little guy with nine fingers, from the middle continent. The one involved with that ring business a while back.

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

I'm beginning to have second thoughts regarding the validity of Gloria's theory that I can overcome my heroin addiction by the simple process of shooting up vast quantities of speed with her twenty times daily.