Quotes About Overcoming

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

How much of a barrier to self-improvement is discrimination? What kinds of tools are in the ready grasp of those subjected to it? Surely one doesn't want to sit around waiting for the end to discrimination.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.

Além disso, talvez o trauma que hoje o consome lhe traga, em compensação, um crescimento pós-traumático, a partir do qual você desenvolverá sua potencialidade como nunca fizera antes.

La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.

he never gave his scars

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.