Quotes About Overcoming

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

If seizures can't stop me, nothing can.

But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

I know that each and everyone of you have felt, at one point, like you couldn't go on. But then you found hope. There's always a way to find hope. Remember that.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.