Quotes About Overcoming

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things--unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. That's got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own. I know....

Harvey Araton

To Be Success In Life Forget The Problems That You Face...But Don't Forget The Lessons That Those Problems Taught To..

Lo que tienes que hacer es ser tan valerosa como una heroína cinematográfica, sin sucumbir a la bebida o la auto-compasión, y al final todo irá bien.

I could be crushed as flat as a shadow.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

My friends have made the story of my life.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.