Quotes About Overcoming

We are not always properly equipped to face the difficulties life places in our path.

He thought more than once that he might break down completely. He thought more than once he was going to descend into a despair from which he would never recover. But even so he weathered it. He would not fall apart.

Power radiated from the specter, power born of experience gained, skill acquired, battles survived, and enemies overcome. Power born of years of staying alive while others died.

When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them...

Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

Es una realidad de la vida el hecho de que todos nos encontramos a uno u otro lado de un muro, de modo que la única solución es olvidarse de él o desarrollar unos dedos resistentes.

Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all.  She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid.  Looking up at huge towering mountains didn't bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn't realized it up until this point, was depths.

Right at the bottom, at the tip of the root, is the fear of the dark and the cold, but once you've given darkness a name you have a measure of control. Or at least you think you have, which is nearly as important.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

Survival is only the first step.

We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.

It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. Words of The Mother, vol.14, p.173

A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.

and because there are no more obstacles in their mind, they can overcome all fear, destroy all wrong perceptions, and realize Perfect Nirv??a

I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

I'm not a judgmental person because I have been judged all my life.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.

Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

I love to watch that movie 'Cinderella Man.' He comes from the top and he goes to the bottom and he makes it back up to the top. I just kind of see myself as a guy like him.