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Quotes About Overcoming

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.
~ Anuj
Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.
~ Bethany Hamilton
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
~ Bob Newhart
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
~ Boy George
When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.
~ Brad Goreski
I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.
~ Byron Katie
The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.
~ Dan Ariely
When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.
~ Danny Pintauro
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
~ Dave Eggers
The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.
~ Dean Koontz
It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.
~ Dikembe Mutombo
That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.
~ Johan Santana
It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
~ Nicole Kidman
Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
~ Robert Carlyle
I feel really good when I haven't felt good for a long time and then suddenly I feel okay again. Nothing feels better than this.
~ Stefanie Schneider
I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you.
~ Trinidad James
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
~ Victor Hugo
I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.
~ Vince Young
Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
~ Lance Armstrong
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
~ Lauren Groff
Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.
~ Lisa McMann
The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
~ Magic Johnson
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.
~ Marcus Buckingham