Quotes About Overcoming

you can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it rather than on why you can't.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.

But we got through it." He shook his head. "You never get over it. You just get through it. Know what I mean?

Suntem asemeni maslinelor, cand suntem striviti, dam din noi tot ce avem mai bun.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those

the most miserable are those who do the

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

The more common method of getting rid of an evil, is to merge it in a greater. Thus, if one suffers a loss of half his fortune at play, he overcomes his mortification by--losing the other half. The most ingenious expedient of this kind, was that of the indigent gentleman of rank, who married his washerwoman to get rid of her bill against him.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

It is not likely that you will ever have a personal encounter with the adversary; he does not show himself that way. But even if he came personally to you to test and tempt you, you have an advantage. You can assert your agency, and he will have to leave you alone.

McAdoo and Graham were discussing that most essential characteristic of great entrepreneurs: mental toughness, the ability to overcome the hurdles and negativity that typically accompany something new. McAdoo and his partners had identified this kind of true grit as the most important attribute in the founders of their successful portfolio companies, like Google and PayPal.

Enid snorted. "I like you, Mr. Greene. And ah, what the hell. I can't see how it will help you and yet…I've seen some strange shit. And bad stays. Bad doesn't go away. You bury bad, it digs itself out. You throw bad in the middle of the ocean, it comes back at you like a tidal wave.

They never liked me." "No, I don't suppose they did." "And Esperanza? Does she still refer to me as Queen Bitch?" "She hasn't so much as mentioned your name in seven years." That made her smile. "Like I'm Voldemort. In the Harry Potter books." "Yep, you're She-who-must-not-be-named." Myron

It hurt so damn much that now something primordial wouldn't let it happen again. I

Fears that are ignored tend to grow greater, but fears confronted tend to shrink in size and intensity.

they have repeatedly overcome or worked around the forces of the actual—inertia, stasis, entropy—to probe the realm of the possible.