Quotes About Overcoming

people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

Pits need to be filled.

Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.

Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

A scar means, I survived.

You have seen trouble too, Sarah. You are making a mistake if you think it is unusual. I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

All you've seen is trouble, so you think trouble is all you're going to get.

Mr. Nak taught me a trick. He told me to think of fear as a person who's going to be around whether he's invited or not. He said, "Think of him like a big ol' bully pain-in-the-butt cousin you cain't get rid of, an' the only way to get your binniss done is to allow him to tag along, because he's goin' to anyway. Then don't take your eye off him a minute, so he don't get the chance to make you look like a horse's patoot.

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As

Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream?" Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. "Well," I said, "people who can't do something themselves, they're jealous, so they wanna tell you that you can't do it. But you know what? You got a dream, it's yours and you gotta protect it. So, don't let anyone tell you that you can't. If you want something, go get it. Period.

Chris Grabenstein

I've always got stage fright,' he says. 'There's always a level of fright. If I can just make it manageable rather than overwhelming then I've won.

If you're prepared to do something anyway it doesn't matter if you're afraid.

Or maybe when you have the sheer force of will to keep doing something over and over again until you get it right, winning feels more like relief than anything else.