Quotes About Overcoming

Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate.

Gratitude for bullets dodged is much healthier than self-pity or regret.

Nancy E. Turner

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

We are defined by how we react to setbacks.

Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

As though my self-esteem wasn't low enough from years of abuse, try as I might, I couldn't even get forgiving right!

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

The survivor gets to tell the story.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

I dare because people like you walk around like you own the world, when really, you spend your entire pitiful life stacking up your lopsided tower of toy blocks, hoping no one bigger and stronger comes along to knock it down. But me? I'm bigger. I'm stronger. And I take a very distinct pleasure in stomping your world to fucking smithereens.

We clean it up and we keep going," I say firmly. "Life is one mess after another, and there's nothing you or I or anyone else on this planet can do to change that. So when messes happen, like they always will, there's only one thing to do: you clean it up. And you keep going. Say that to me.

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

And in the stockyard, beasts did climb their barriers.

Put bluntly, it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe "responding to it constructively" means you ignore it altogether.

it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.