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Quotes About Overcoming

I'm tired of it. I'm sick of picking up the pieces and marching bravely onward. I want things to work out just once.
~ Armistead Maupin
A little number?" "Fucked." "Thank you.
~ Armistead Maupin
Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If they are too many for us, we shall take two or three of them with us.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
they, like you, were born to walk the like of shadows. One foot in the light and one in the dark. A few are scared enough of both that they stay in the middle and never pick a side. Others are strong enough to choose the light and stay firmly planted there, even while the darkness tries to claim them. And others are too weak or blind to fight the lure of the darkness. It overwhelms them with false promises and before they know what's happened it owns them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ain't real big on fear. I tried it once, and well… didn't like the taste of it. Burped it up for days afterwards and have no intention of doing that again. -Jess 'Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory.
~ Sherryl Jordan
Marnie shook her head, trying to banish the memory, the fear and smell of him. Even now his presence seemed to fill the bed and the tiny house.
~ Sherryl Jordan
Shirlee McCoy
~ lesson about
Her great weapon was her weakness, the massive deterrent to which all deferred.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes the people who knock you down never turn once to look.
~ Shirley Jackson
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Maybe it didn't really matter what we did to preserve ourselves. There was always some truck somewhere. The thing was not to let that stop you not to let it direct your life
~ Shirley MacLaine
Like they say: a pimple on a blister, a blister on a boil.
~ Sholem Aleichem
And broken things can be fixed.
~ Sibella Giorello
Sibella Giorello
~ And life hurts.
I am but a small-winged bird: But I will conquer the big world As the bee-martin beats the crow By attacking it always from Above.
~ Sidney Lanier
They had broken his legs, but he could crawl.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Was man nicht erfliegen kann, muß man erhinken. . . . . . . Die Schrift sagt, es ist keine Sünde zu hinken.
~ Sigmund Freud
Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
There was nothing to say to tragedy that had outlived hope.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
~ sir winston churchill