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Quotes About Overcoming

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
~ Angelina Jolie
A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.
~ Martin Niemoller
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.
~ John Elder Robison
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
~ Lucinda Williams
Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.
~ Demi Lovato
If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
~ Nicole Kidman
There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
~ Henry Rollins
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
~ Thomas Carlyle
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.
~ Elinor Wylie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.
~ Kelly McGonigal
It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.
~ Theoren Fleury
The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
~ David Starr Jordan
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
~ Edward Abbey
When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.
~ Sharon Osbourne
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
~ Thomas Merton
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
~ Henry Miller
The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.
~ Joel Osteen
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
~ Joseph Joubert
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
~ Pindar