Quotes About Overcoming

Some days life just wasn't worth the trouble of chewing through the leather straps on the straitjacket.

Even though the wounds will heal the scars will remain." Allen Walker

After all, if I could fix an old coat, then surely, I could find a way to sew myself back together.

Memang jalan yang saya tempuh sampai hari ini tidak selalu mulus, tapi fakta bahwa saya masih hidup membuat saya yakin bisa mengatasi setiap penderitaan yang menyertainya.

The greatest glory is being knocked to your knees and then rising again. Lombardi repeated this phrase often, until it rang in the head of every single Packer, like a ubiquitous radio jingle.

What he tried to explain to his players was that being humbled—having some sort of setback—was inevitable in life, but that the real measure of a man was how he reacted to being knocked down. Would he wallow on the ground feeling sorry for himself? Accepting his ultimate defeat? Or would he climb off the turf and go back to work, infused with a renewed determination to transcend the setback?

the bumping hurts more than the cutting. The cutting doesn't prevent you from walking.

I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

Kickin' a man when he's down sometimes is the only way to make him get up.

Never try to drown your sorrows if she can swim.

A snake-bit man is afraid of a rope.

Jackie Robinson stole home and he's safe."...Nobody could hurt him again. He wouldn't hear the name-calling. He would only hear the cheers and somehow I could fantasize my own little story about where he was and how he was doing and let him rest in peace.

He lost his sight and found a vision. He proved dramatically that it's not what happens to us that determines out lives—it's what we make of what happens.

one. If you wait to become a conqueror before you believe you are one, you are mistaken. You have to confess it first to become one. Faith's confessions create reality.

If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack. ~Victor Frankenstein

I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.

He that is down can fall no lower.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.

In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulty; they are necessary for health. What concerns us here is only an excessive amount of them.