Quotes About Overcoming

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

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

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

He who limps still walks.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.