Quotes About Overcoming

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

It's been my experience that many people who suffer low self-esteem allow it to go on because they believe there is nothing they can do about it; that's just life, and they believe they have to accept what life sends them.

Our fears arise from things we don't confront. Once we are willing to look fully and deeply at the source of a fear, it loses its power.

Chapter Eighteen

How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

Life had hurt her, but it hadn't beaten her. Every time life had thrown a new punch her way, she'd just turned around

even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.

I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me.

She pulled a pillow over her head and waited to die. When an hour passed and she still wasn't dead, she got up and pruned the rosebushes.

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I think I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not a train.

Redención significa que el dolor ha sido tratado y cambiado tan radicalmente que no sólo pierde la capacidad de hacernos daño, sino que también obtiene el poder para hacer algo bueno"1.

Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Before great success comes, you will surely meet with temporary defeat. When people are overtaken by these feelings, the easiest and perhaps most logical thing to do is to quit. Quitting is exactly what the majority of people do.

I believe in the goodness of people, sir, and the power of young folks like us to overcome what grown-ups like you might not be able to. ?Sylvia Patterson

I know people will say that it's because of the accident that I came back to church-well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than I am.

Stella expected to see fire in Mr. Spencer's eyes, fire like the flames that had made tinder of his house. Instead his eyes were soft, gentle, and brown like the earth. "I have to show them they didn't destroy me," he said simply.

Sharon M. Draper