Quotes About Overcoming

Si ellos podían, ¿por qué no ella? Toda su vida se le había negado todo.

Watch and think and plan. Let the world be a mob—Elwood will walk through it. They might curse and spit and strike him, but he'd make it through to the other side. Bloodied and tired, but he'd make it through.

She pushed the plantation from her again. She was getting better at it. Her mind was wily though, twisty. Thoughts she did not like wormed in from the sides, from beneath, through the cracks, from places she had battened down.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch?

There comes a point when, tired of losing, you decide to stop failing yourself, or at least to try, or to send up the final flare, one last chance.

The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.

I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

Logotherapy bases its technique called "paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

the words of Bismarck could be applied: "Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed.

To the others of us, the mediocre and the half-hearted, the words of Bismarck could be applied: "Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

El hombre que se levanta es aún más fuerte que el que no ha caído

one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

despair threatened to overwhelm a young Israeli soldier who had lost both his legs in the Yom Kippur War. He was drowning in depression and contemplating suicide. One day a friend noticed that his outlook had changed to hopeful serenity. The soldier attributed his transformation to reading Man's Search for Meaning. When he was told about the soldier, Frankl wondered whether "there may be such a thing as autobibliotherapy—healing through reading." Frankl's

often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

You are responsible for overcoming guilt by rising above it, by growing beyond yourselves, by changing for the better.

quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

A human being, it is true, is a finite being. However, to the extent to which he understands his finiteness, he also overcomes it.

even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself