Quotes About Overcoming

But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over—sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?

Some days you get the bear...

John Kennedy Toole

You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

Resistance carves you into strength.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.