Quotes About Overcoming

This ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others, and justly so; it is probably the most important trait not only for succeeding in life, but for enjoying it as well.

Dwelling upon what once hurt you will only bring new surprises, new losses, more disappointments—new reasons to be hurt.

Fear, shame, and worthlessness have only the power we give them. This book is about hope, love, and grace and how they work toward the same ends.

Mike Greenberg

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

Me encargo de los problemas cuando son del tamaño de una bellota. Rechazo verlos convertirse en grandes robles".

after all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Reading Group Guide "History has failed us, but no matter." How does the opening line reflect

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Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.

Let's be honest—Asian women get a bad rap. We are known for scoring high on the SATs, but also for driving poorly and tipping badly. And I don't drive so great, so I needed to make sure to overcompensate in the other department.

Things cannot forever go downward. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying.

Rah-e-talab mein girey hote munh ke bal hum bhi Shikasta-paayi ne apni hamein sambhaal liya

The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderful thing in your life.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

Life doesn't teach us through ease & happiness, it teaches us through challenges & pain."

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

I'll always be damaged in a way. I had hoped that I could completely heal those cracks, but I'm starting to think the real trick is learning to live a full life in spite of them. Cracked people are everywhere, and so I can forgive myself for being overly anxious or easily frightened. But I will no longer allow myself to be swallowed by my past. I insist on having the happiest life I can muster, and I am in control of that now.

You are not a failure when you fall down, you become one when you stay down. To succeed you must keep rising one more time.

I wasn't just fighting one man, I was fighting a lot of men. I had to show them all that I was a man they couldn't intimidate. If I lost, I would have to listen to all the talk about how I was a bum, how I joined the wrong movement, and how I was misled. That's why it was so important for me to show them how wrong they were. I won in a third-round knockout.

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.