Quotes About Overcoming

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

Maybe after you survived the Sarlacc, nothing ever really scared you again.

Sorrows don't drown; they briefly submerge only to float to the surface with greater fierceness.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive." He waved his hand in the air. "Or not, in some cases.

You've fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can't fall off the floor.

She would tell you she gave in to mourning you for too long, let the pity and self-hate drag her into that black pit that I still crawl around in. If she did, her stay there was temporary. Somehow, she managed to wrench a piece of her former self out of the ground. She tells me that the other, miserable half, the chipped-off, cast-off half, still follows at a respectful distance, ready to take over the second she stumbles.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.