Quotes About Overcoming

Tui T. Sutherland

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT? Commander

Tui T. Sutherland

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO,

Sure enough, a few moments later, an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her back. Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT?

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

My point is that I grew up in the most terrible place in Pyrrhia, but it made me strong. This dungeon is nothing in comparison. Here, we get to eat every day and your queen even lets us out to stretch our wings more frequently than I can believe.

Sometimes when our backs are up against the wall, we can surprise ourselves with what we are truly capable of. We can push off those walls and discover something deep within ourselves. We just have to make sure we do not create walls within ourselves, or between us and other people. Walls are for scaling. Or for knocking down and crumbling.

if your training isn't gradually lessening the pain in your life, you're doing something wrong.

fear and shame don't own him.

we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.