Quotes About Overcoming

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you're actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing - but now you're letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened... We should not be ignorant of Satan's devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.

I don't know why he isn't dead, maybe he's lucky. Certainly his physical self is dead. Before the streets, drugs, IV use, and hustling -medically - his body is not right. [...] So there is some will to live in him, to pass on his knowledge and good nature. It's a mystery. Dave is an inspiration to people. He is society's throw-away.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

People fail for the most part because they shoot themselves in the foot. If you go for a long time without shooting yourself in the foot, other people start calling you a genius.

I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful.

Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate." —JIM STOVALL

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.

The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of a long night's exhausting dreams. Boys and girls, take off those space suits; the boot is lifted from your chest and you can safely resume the search for perfection.

If you have damage from your childhood or from a previous marriage, the Devil will use that as an opportunity to access your scars and try to use them to control you. You must expose him and refuse to let him do this to you.

You might just be able to make it, Alex," he whispered, to give her strength. "And you might just be able to stop me," she said, returning it.

I stand here, looking at it. At my new life. No more people staring at me when I walk down the hall. No more whispers behind my back. No one knows me here. No one knows what happened. What I did. I just have to get through the year, get into college someplace far away, and leave for good.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.

You're going to fall down in this life—everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.

Remember, it's not that you fall; it's what you do next that counts.

She did not retreat in humiliation. She did not turn bitter. She developed her own mantra: 'How am I not going to let this beat me?' In later years she would tell students, 'You have to get up and try again. That's sometimes really hard to do, when you get embarrassed over failure.