Quotes About Overcoming

Do not stop your lives," he told them. "Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

Quando sei un reietto, ti affezioni anche alle pietre che ti scagliano.

Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house, up to her bedroom, and down into a deep dark hole.

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don't.

Qui craint de souffrir souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint.

Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

It takes nerve to walk down the street when you fall between the cracks.

Matt discovered that no matter how terrified he'd been at first, it wasn't possible to stay terrified. It was as though his brain said, Okay. That's enough. Let's find something else to do.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.

But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

emphatically. "But even so, I don't suppose we would have

Anger was a fire in a grate, and I'd never had any wood to burn. Until now, it seemed.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

When I say us, what I mean is them. I felt fine. No; I felt like I'd woken up after a long sleep and had a good workout in the fresh air and a really nice stretch and was now contemplating with interest the idea of a hearty lunch. Sitting on edge in a classroom for hours surrounded by fluffy peeping freshmen waiting for one mal to pop out at me: nightmarish. Summoning a river of magma to instantly vaporize twenty-seven carefully designed attacks at once: nothing to it.

He demanded, grimly, "Enough?" I opened my mouth to say yes, to say please. "No," I whispered, horribly afraid now. I could feel the faint quicksilver trace of the shadows still inside me. If we stopped now, they would curl up deep, hiding in my veins and my belly. They would take root and grow and grow and grow, until they strangled all the rest of me.

It made me angry, because being angry was better than being afraid.

You're just setting yourself up for pain and anguish if you do something like that. But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use.

I thought about enduring. Maybe losers get to be taken care of! The truth is we were so wronged and so forgotten we had to become heroes to survive at all.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.