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Quotes About Overcoming

All stories are ultimately about the fall.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
~ Donny Osmond
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
~ Janice Dickinson
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
~ Marianne Williamson
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
~ Dallas Willard
The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
~ India.Arie
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
~ Colin Powell
You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.
~ Jeb Corliss
We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.
~ Kumar Sangakkara
How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
~ Judy Blume
Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'
~ Maya Angelou
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
~ LL Cool J
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.
~ Unknown
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
~ Ben Jonson
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
~ Dan Millman
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
~ Leymah Gbowee
I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.
~ Will Smith