Quotes About Overcoming

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

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.

Success is a great healer.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

There is no victory without pain.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

I believe it would do us good to rise above the little things, the disappointing things, the difficult things, and to see the larger things that are now facing us and to ask ourselves how we are to meet them.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things.

Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.

Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.