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Quotes About Overcoming

Les ratés ne vous rateront pas.
~ Georges Bernanos
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.
~ Georgia O'Keefe
I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life—and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one.
~ Gerald Clarke
Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Failure is easy. This is a badge of shame.
~ Gerald Morris
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He that is down need fear no fall.
~ John Bunyan
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
~ Washington Irving
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
~ William Shakespeare
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
~ Anne Shannon Monroe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
He conquers who endures.
~ Anonymous
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
~ Virgil
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If I don't get off the mat, I'll lose the fight.
~ Archie Moore
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.
~ Bible
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.
~ William Hazlitt
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Charles A. Beard
Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.
~ Cristina Sanchez
Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.
~ Henry S. Haskins
We conquer by continuing.
~ George Matheson