Quotes About Overcoming

Once you've been at another's mercy you swear to yourself it will never happen again. You'll get stronger, smarter, and history will never repeat itself because you've grown and changed and you're not the same person anymore.

none of us get through life unscathed…We all have to find a way to live with pain without letting it define us.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and oneself.

You told him, it's not the fall that defines you, but the shots you make once you get up.

Many people owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles H. Spurgeon

As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men . . . who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. (2 Chronicles 20:22) Oh, if only we would worry less about our problems and sing and praise more!

The trials of life are sent to make us, not to break us.

Dear believer, after experiencing the terrible valley of suffering, did you depart with the spoils? When you were struck with an injury and you thought you had lost everything, did you trust in God to the point that you came out richer than you were before? Being "more than [a] conqueror" means taking the spoils from the enemy and appropriating them for yourself. What your enemy had planned to use for your defeat, you can confiscate for your own use.

That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.

Arthur," she said, "there are some things quite beyond your powers." "Yes, I know," he said steadily. "But if no one ever tries to strive against them no one will ever succeed. We must simply do our best, you know. And hope.

Bad day? -Bad Century

What do you do with somebody who keeps killing you over and over?

Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

I've thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were.

Everyone else had managed to pick up the tatters and mend them into wearable lives. Why couldn't he?

Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh.

In one vital way, though, she was different. She would never again allow weakness or softness, fear or ineptitude to hold her frozen. She hadn't known yet what she was capable of.

Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, 'Right this way.' Well, here I come.

She felt like that worst thing—a victim.

When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound -- this is what I had to go through.