Quotes About Overcoming

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way

When I read the words, "a woman has the power to…change her experience," I knew overcoming my fear that my father would come into my room, even after he was dead, would be one of my biggest challenges. Because he had come in so many hundreds of times, I had been indelibly conditioned. I guess that's why I call it the "work" of healing. It is grueling, nose-to-the-grindstone-work to change long held beliefs and accompanying emotions…but it can be done.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Rechazar ciertas pruebas porque son difíciles es también rechazarnos a nosotros mismos, aunque no seamos conscientes de ello. No necesitamos reducir el tamaño de la prueba, sino aumentar nuestra fortaleza frente a ella.

La búsqueda de uno mismo, de quien se es en realidad, es siempre un acto de heroicidad que implica aprender a superarse a sí mismo una y otra vez, para poco a poco ir expandiendo los límites de la propia identidad.

cuando uno se deja vencer, se va deformando, se va convirtiendo en una grosera parodia de sí mismo.

Esos miedos que inventamos son los más peligrosos. De ésos tenés que librarte, y con urgencia, porque los miedos que inventamos son los únicos que nos pueden enloquecer. (Jules y Jim)

Tragedies don't kill you, she decided, "it's the messes. I can't stand messes. I'm not being a smart-cracker. You know I'm not when you meet me – don't you, honey?"9

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

that in the larger sense of life's struggle, most of us are wounded in combat.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily.

Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It's a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It's a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.

Maybe we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances. Maybe we need to stop talking to God about our problem and start talking to our problem about God.

Here is my point. The cure for the fear of failure is not success. It's failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It's rejection. You've got to be exposed to small quantities of whatever you're afraid of. That's how you build up immunity.

remind them that their failures don't define who they are!

You got to learn to accept the crap. Put it in a box in a corner and never open it again. Pretty soon, it'll go away." He knew that wasn't true,