Quotes About Overcoming

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

Just remember," Mom said after examining the blisters, "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger." "If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

Powerless rage can work miracles.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Disappointment builds character and strength.