Quotes About Overcoming

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

A woman is a victim of her own emotions.

It's an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there's anything that cripples us it is fear.

To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands.

To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say 'I'm weak' and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: 'Because it's much easier not to!

Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.

Oh, when will we overcome all these difficulties? And yet it's good that we have to surmount them, since it makes the end that much more beautiful

When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down.

There's freedom in hitting bottom

Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas.

In the face of everything, we slowly come through.

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

How did we all get so screwed up? Putting aside our damaged parents, poverty, abuse, addiction, disease, and other unpleasantries, life just damages people. There is no way around this.

We are going to save the world by repeatedly busting the dread that looms over us like a blimp, by pushing back our sleeves and distracting it with the next right thing and good works.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story.

For the climax, there must be a killing or a healing or a domination.

Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating.