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Quotes About Overcoming

Desperate courage makes One a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
~ D. H. Lawrence
That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
~ Jasinda Wilder
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
~ Aeschylus
When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
~ R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
~ Rollo May
Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.
~ Max Lucado
Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.
~ Wes Fesler
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
~ Unknown
Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.
~ Rickson Gracie
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
~ Tupac Shakur
Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
~ Robert Barron
So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.
~ William Ernest Henley
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
~ Maya Lin
When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.
~ Unknown
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
~ George Washington Carver
Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.
~ Darren Rowse