Quotes About Overcoming

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long.

Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that our reactions have become habitual.

Problems are a part of life. So are solutions. People have problems, but we, and our self-esteem, are separate from our problems.

The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

Mags, there will be many things that you should be afraid of. I am not telling you to never be afraid. But you must not let fear rule you. It should guide you, not govern you. And you should never allow it to stop you from doing what is right.:

There's your real heroes—the people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them.

Mercedes Lackey

learn for myself beyond any doubt how to turn every difficult situation into joy.

At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.

In every potential sponsor's eyes, I was a nobody. And soon I had notched up more rejection letters than is healthy for any one man to receive.

None of this was in the game plan for my life. I had been hit hard, broadside and from left field, in a way I could never have imagined. Things like this just didn't happen to me. I was always the lucky kid. But rogue balls from left field can often be the making of us.

And so often the darkest hour is just before the dawn. You just have to hang on in there through those dark hours - don't give up, let the mountain sustain you and empower you, and you will experience the mountain within you.

And finally, remember that light can only shine through broken vessels, and we are all a little broken. Sometimes it is the broken-ness that gives us the fire.

Light can only shine through broken vessels.

Bravery is about facing up to the things we fear the most, and overcoming and conquering those fears…or at least quelling them for a while. And the greater the fear, the greater the bravery. But one thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

And the greater the fear, the greater the bravery.

Sedmkrát spadni, osmkrát se zvedni.

There are few greater feelings than finding out you can achieve more, and endure more, than you had previously imagined, and it's only when we are tested that we realize just how brightly we can shine.

Storms come to make us stronger.

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.