Quotes About Overcoming

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

The coronavirus is God's call to his people to overcome self-pity and fear, and with courageous joy, to do the good works of love that glorify God.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

What does not kill me makes me stronger!

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

They persisted in the face of discouragement until they gained the kind of acceptance accorded to the inevitable.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

If he let himself believe that, he would lie down in the middle of the road and give up. So he took the thought right out of his mind and left it sitting there on the side of the road.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' I've revised this saying to make it more accurate: 'What doesn't kill you puts you in a whole lot of pain and makes you cry a lot and want to crawl in a hole forever and live with rodents.

It was his way of gaining some control when life got stormy. He couldn't will the rain clouds from the horizon, but he could control how he would react to them.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

When things go bad, don't go with them.

When things go wrong don't go with them.

When the war heats up and we doubt that we will ever change, we must remember that our old person, filled with self-deceiving desires, no longer has power to rule over us