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Quotes About Overcoming

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
~ David Dunbar Buick
Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.
~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
~ Dusty Baker
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
~ Samuel Smiles
What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
~ Albert Camus
I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.
~ Amy Sedaris
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.
~ Joyce Meyer
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
~ Charles Darwin
Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
~ Mark Twain
Few great men would have got past personnel.
~ Paul Goodman
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
~ John Owen
There is no strong beer, just weak men
~ Dan Castellaneta
Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.
~ Bill Gaede
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
~ David Ortiz
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
our faculties seem to be making war upon us, as if they were resentful of the war made upon them by our vices.
~ Teresa of Avila
pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear. We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.
~ Teresa of Avila
there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.
~ Teresa of Avila
At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.
~ Teresa of Avila