Quotes About Overcoming

Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.

Why do we fall? So we can get back up again.

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

If you feel so empty So used up, so let down If you feel so angry So ripped off so stepped on You're not the only one Refusing to back down You're not the only one So get up

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

What use is this great demon for me?187

Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

This isn't about him. It's about me. Occupying all the space I need to. Standing tall in exactly who the hell I am. A damned good mom and writer with a terrible disability who overcomes it every day and whose best work is ahead of her and whose ass is perched for the gawds in her dress.

Tell me what you're afraid of,' Jacob said. Shit, I thought, this could take all day. My life was ruled by my fears.

Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

Tiffany L. Warren

Failure is only temporary.

The message of 1 Samuel 17 is not that we are called to be like David. Its good news is that we have a David.

There is nothing that God expects you to do that you cannot do. The sin that defeats you need not defeat you. The fears that consume you need not consume you. The people who terrify you need not terrify you. You have the Spirit of life within you empowering you to know God and follow Christ.

If I had killed myself I would not have experienced the fun of scoring those goals. I think it was wise not to do what I was planning.'" Soccer

Fear, like self-pity, is a prison of its own making.

If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.

That's my dream, to empower people, because there should be no reason that the colour of your skin should stop you from doing everything you want to do.

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.

I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.

That's something that drives me on - wanting to prove people wrong. Because the amount of people who have told me, 'no, you're not good enough.' A lot of people fall at that hurdle. But I just kept getting up and looking for that one person who said yes.