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Quotes About Overcoming

You listed the three options you believe you have, but really they all say the same thing: that you believe you're fucked before you begin.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I'm not suggesting one deny negative emotions, but rather that you accept them and move through them by embracing the power we have to keep from wallowing in emotions that don't serve us well.
~ Cheryl Strayed
You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I can't fall back, I came too far Hold myself up, and love my scars.
~ Chester Bennington
They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us twenty nine to one. They can't get away from us now!
~ Chesty Puller
Failure is not frailty. Success never guarantees.
~ Terri Guillemets
Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them.
~ Author Unknown
The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
~ Chinese proverb
Been down so long, down don't worry me.
~ African-American saying
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
~ Harry Crews, Scar Lover, 1992
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.
~ Dodinsky
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
~ Author Unknown
[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.
~ Jarod Kintz, Goodreads bio
You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug.
~ Author Unknown
Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.
~ Author Unknown
When we focus on faith rather than fear, anything becomes possible.
~ Gail Lynne Goodwin
Faith can move mountains.
~ Matthew 17:20
If you have faith, you can move mountains. If you have faith in something bigger than yourself — in God, community, family, whatever — then anything is possible. Faith alone will give you the strength to clear any obstacle in your way.
~ Montel Williams
You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.
~ Rose Namajunas
I used to think you took my breath away, but then I realised I was just suffocated by your bullshit. Rainbows always come after the darkest storm.
~ Demi Lovao
Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
~ H. Norman Wright
Defeat is embracing what doesn't work
~ H.W. Mann