Quotes About Overcoming

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

I'm an old man now and have had a great many problems. Most of them never happened.

El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.

today i will find strength in my weakness

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles … by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain

Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura e dominio della paura, ma non assenza di paura.

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Navidson's troubles might not have created the house, but they did ultimately shape the way he faced it.

I've lost this sentence, I can't even finish it, don't know how—

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I've survived everything I've had to so far. I'm still standing here.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

Creo que a los humanos les gusta contemplar la destrucción a pequeña escala. Castillos de arena, castillos de naipes, por ahí empiezan. Su gran don es la capacidad de superación.