Quotes About Overcoming

Oh, horrible—worst of all—worse than death, when you have made a little clearing in the wilderness, planted your little garden, let in your sunlight, and then the weeds creep in again!

Mostly you realize you can handle it. You'd rather turn it all upside down and dump it out and watch it scatter and disappear. You'd rather do that, because you don't want to have to handle it. You really don't. It's too stupid and crazy and incredibly, incredibly unfair. But you do handle it. Because the thing you learn is that you can.

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

How we handle our problems is the key to overcoming them. Our reaction will determine whether our problems become opportunities for personal growth or the means of spiritual and emotional defeat. Learning how to handle life's problems with the right heart attitude is the first step in overcoming them.

We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

One person can destroy my world But not my light.

You shouldn't dwell on it," Mrs. Jaks had said. "Forgive him and you'll live without his shadow on your lives." "The world is hard," his mom had said. "You need to be harder.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.

No sooner do you get a field cleared of them than within another year a new layer has somehow worked its way to the surface. It's my opinion they boil up from hell, those stones, cooling on the way.

Todos somos cobardes», pensé, «sólo es cuestión de que nos atemoricen lo suficiente».

Eyes blurred, she drove away. Alone, buzzing down the asphalt trail to Kayenta, heart beating, her pistons leaping madly up and down, Bonnie Abbzug relapsed into the sweet luxury of tears. Hard to see the road. She turned on the windshield wipers but that didn't help much.

The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan

I was a seven-stone weakling.

First you feel like dying. Then you feel reborn.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.