Quotes About Overcoming

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad hit me with a razor strop" seems kind of overly deterministic to Randy; it seems to reflect a kind of lazy or half-witted surrender to bald teleology.

If you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains.

Finally, don't try to "get out" of anything. What you resist, persists. I

So when I ran out of the final bottle of Zoloft, I didn't take any more. I didn't call Dr. Barney either. I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I'll remember how good I felt that night on the Brooklyn Bridge. Pills were for wimps, and this was over; I was done; I was back to me.

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.