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Quotes About Overcoming

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me
~ Oscar Wilde
one of the principal qualities of pain is that it demands to be defeated first, then understood.
~ Colum McCann
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
~ Confucius
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
~ Confucius
I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That which fundamentally motivates one still dictates the terms of what one thinks and does—[…] one's eyes should be on the prize, not on the perpetrator of one's oppression.
~ Cornel West
Every soldier had to battle his weaker self. His weaker self had brought Donnersmarck to his knees, trembling. He had screamed it away, he had outrun it, he had drowned it in the blood of others. And he had always defeated it.
~ Cornelia Funke
Fear was like a beast that only grew fiercer when one gave in to it.
~ Cornelia Funke
Manchmal hilft es, wütend zu werden, wenn man vor Traurigkeit nicht ein noch aus weiß.
~ Cornelia Funke
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
~ Cornelia Funke
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.
~ Craig Groeschel
Mark Twain say something about courage being the mastery of fear rather than the absence of fear?
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Work through the constant challenge of tough situations that knock you down. Then get up. If you get knocked down again, get up. If you get knocked down again, get up again. Occasionally you may slow down, but don't stop.
~ D.A. Benton
Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'--and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.
~ D.H. Lawrence
don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
~ D.H. Lawrence
What most commonly led people around the world to feel awe? Nature? Spiritual practice? Listening to music? In fact, it was other people's courage, kindness, strength, or overcoming.
~ Dacher Keltner
when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ Dale Carnegie
As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.
~ Dale Carnegie
I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
~ Dale Carnegie