Quotes About Overcoming

There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you'll learn to walk again.

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

So you've been having a tough time. You don't know how long more you can hold on. Remember bad days don't last forever. Keep patience alive!

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.