Quotes About Overcoming

No matter how many obstacles may block your path, or how dark the way, if you look up, think up, and struggle up, you can't help succeeding. Whatever you do for a living, whatever fortune or misfortune, hold the victorious attitude and push ahead.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.

He drowned his sorrows, though like other drowned things they had a habit of floating to the surface when least expected.

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.

Margaret Atwood

Life sucks, end of story," said Ada.

It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

Margaret Atwood

What to do with such a sorrow? It was like an enormous black cloud boiling up over the horizon. No: it was like a blizzard. No: it was like nothing he could put into language. He couldn't face it head-on. He had to transform it, or at the very least enclose it.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

Fighting back with joy rarely makes sense.

They burned you," she [Scarlett] thought, "and they laid you flat. But they didn't lick you. They couldn't lick you. You'll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!

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If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.