Quotes About Overcoming

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

Oh, get off the cross!" V shouted when I shared my thoughts with her on the phone. "We need the wood!

If you live that way, always letting the fear take over, I learned that you're not really living at all.

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. We define ourselves.

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.

She was a little frightened in anticipation and a little frightened when the test came, but fortunately she was in control of her fear. She pushed it into a corner of her mind and barricaded it in. This left her mind perfectly clear and free to function properly. Of course, one had to keep an eye on the barricade, though Frances, smiling to herself at the absurd simile; one had to see that it was holding firm and keeping the fear-beast from bursting out and making a nuisance of itself . . .

Sister Ferguson's method of dealing with misfortunes was to "wash them out". You never got anywhere if you sat down and brooded and felt sorry for yourself. The thing to do was to pretend you didn't care . . . then, after a bit, you found the pretence was true.

If we don't have troubles sent us we can generally make them for ourselves,' I reply. 'It's easy to make yourself miserable over trifles; I've done that sometimes, and then, quite suddenly, you get sent something to be sorry about, and you think looking back how happy I was yesterday, and I never knew it.

My life has been defined by a series of failures.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

The reality is that I've been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform.

If I can be some kind of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up.

I'm always curious to see how a fighter responds after suffering a first loss. I'm especially curious when that first loss is via knockout.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.