Quotes About Overcoming

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

the three of us in that state where the very bones and muscles are too tired to rest, when the attenuated and invincible spirit has changed and shaped even hopelessness into the easy obliviousness of a worn garment

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

El hombre realiza, engendra más de lo que puede o de lo que debería soportar. Así es como descubre que puede soportarlo todo

Le diré que todo el mundo puede cometer un error, pero que no todos saben salir de él sin pérdidas; que no todo el mundo puede comerse sus errores: eso es lo que le voy a decir.

So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear. We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in it.

See? Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. Inigo is beaten. Inconceivable! exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. I'm so stupid, Fezzik nodded. Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

To be a perpetual victim is always to have your life named, claimed, and determined by the victimizer. It is to give the perpetrator of injustice power over who you are and what you mean.

We have then walked, played, or worked enough, so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on this side of which our usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

beyond the very extremity of fatigue-distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own,—sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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.

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair

if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory.

What's least commonsensical is that pits can sometimes be flipped into peaks.

Fill pits, then build peaks.

To get the Elephant off its duff, you need to reassure it that the task won't be so bad.

new habits can clear the Path.