Quotes About Overcoming

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.

Mary Beth Williams

A person could only mope around so long feeling sorry for himself and then he needed to get over it and get moving.

When you feel like falling down, don't give up. Try again.

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Laugh about your mistakes, but, learn from them. Joke over you troubles, but, gather strength from them. Have fun with your difficulties, but overcome them. That's the way to live life.

Sometimes we pass through many ups and downs but they are there to make us stronger than we imagine. Don't hate someone because of the challenges they pose on us. Just thank them for they are making you stronger.

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God

rubbed the ugly, jagged scar that ran from the corner of his eye to his hairline just above his ear. He was glad

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all.