Quotes About Overcoming

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered. We have only to conquer Now, by suffering.

Go down. It seemed obvious. You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.

It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

But that's what bravery is: to be afraid and do what you have to do anyway. You can't have courage without fear.

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

Dreadful events lead people to do extraordinary things

So there is light but only if you can see past the pain

Know that you are loved, my dear...Know that you can and will rise above all your fears. I now call you water walker. Water Walker? Yes, you walked through the waters of your fear, didn't you?

The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because it's only a shadow.

Death is just a shadow, Jamie. I'm not afraid of shadows anymore. You can live with fear if you like, but it only draws more fear. Everything I said is true. All of it.

Cords of darkness were wrapped around her arms, chest and neck. They didn't retreat as Stephen's had.

But who is stronger than death? Me, _evidently._

You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?

Il y a des chagrins qui vous dévorent, qui vous écrasent, et on ne peut... Eh bien, on ne peut rien y faire

You have conquered, Galilean.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Juliana Foster

I believe that if you've been through hell and you come out the other side, you appreciate the little things more.

Sure. Life is full of ups and downs, but we all know that some downs are worse than others. There are those from which we simply cannot recover. Or at least it might seem that way when we're in the depths of the worst possible scenario.

I need to beat that spiteful little devil down with a big fat Oprah stick.

Sometimes, bad things happened. All any of us can ever do is find a way to survive, and accept the things that cannot be changed.

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.