Quotes About Overcoming

Fear of success can be as paralyzing as fear of failure.

Things were supposed to be easy for her but her last week had definitely not been that.

She could not smash anything without breaking herself.

Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of *never again*. Do not even write this poetry but find it, come across it, and step over it. The helpless ant that in the end can lift more than ten times its weight: that is a poetry.

I like being in a weak position, and making it strong.

We must pass through the prism of our own destruction to see a new and better light.

This is a fundamental fact of life, a law of the universe, and the moment you embrace it is the moment you are free. Everyone gets at least one sociopath, one a-hole, one hurtful narcissistic jerk who barges or stumbles or falls into their life and causes pain .

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed.

I'm tired of feeling ashamed. About my foot.

My own emotions were such a jumble. I'd known the right thing to do, and I'd done it....I'd felt afraid, but I hadn't come undone. My foot would never be all the way right, but I could walk and climb and run. My feelings might never be all the way right either, but they were healed enough.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I was," I said. "It didn't matter." Fear and what you did with it were two separate things.

love is stronger than anything

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it.

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)

You would be entirely justified if you spent your entire life railing against your misfortune. But there is another option. Rise above your fate. Internalize your calamity and give it a heroic dimension as Bhishma did. It was a thoughtful disquisition and its central insight applied to all of us since there is no man born who is not handicapped in one way or another. So it is up to us to make the best of a botched job. After

Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Fear can wash away your dreams and fill up all the corners of your heart. You can drown in your fear. Do you hear this? Someday you will have to begin living, and how you do that will be a huge surprise to you because it will be like nothing you ever imagined. Nothing at all.

we forget that there is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test and no miracle without an impossible circumstance.

When believers refuse to listen to the devil, however, he becomes a powerless pawn of God's divine purposes. I