Quotes About Overcoming

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

My life was pretty rough.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That's what it's all about.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy