Quotes About Overcoming

Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.

You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom. someone will hand you a shovel.--- Phoebe Traeger

I'm tougher than this." He shook his head. "Somehow it doesn't matter how tough you are. You can be tough as hell and still be leveled flat without warning." She looked at him. "What do you do when you're leveled flat?" "You make a plan, you move on that plan, and you keep breathing

She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Chloe Traeger

her raw throat. Marveled. He'd literally walked through fire for her. For her. "No one's ever done that…" Tightening his grip

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. -Harry

Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Because . . . fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, "No one can chain the Hulk!

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.

Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!

Vadderung grinned. "I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane

Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. There's

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?