Quotes About Overcoming

Some chains are the result of things done to us. Some chains are the result of what we needed that we did not have. Although many are due to our own choices, there is hope. - Peggy Park

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay . Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

I may have stumbledand stammered at your unexpected push, but the breezeanchored me and I learnt the art of survival

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

I think that's how life works. Just when you think you have it all set up and perfectly arranged, someone sneezes, or God blows on it, and all the building blocks come tumbling down.

We owe it to ourselves to allow the healing to happen and move on. And even my life is going to be better now because of you. Everybody has something they can beat themselves up for. It's just not worth the energy to do it.