Quotes About Overcoming

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Every path has its puddle.

It never rains but it pours.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Despair is criminal.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.