Quotes About Overcoming

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Despair doubles our strength.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.