Quotes About Overcoming

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.