Quotes About Overcoming

There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.

THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes . . . ." Revelation 2:7     Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

PASO DOS Llegamos a creer de que sólo un Poder Superior a nosotros mismos podría devolvernos el sano juicio.

My Higher Power sent me the message: I was as powerless over food as I was over booze.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Meanwhile, we'd been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then we'd made something of ourselves, even though the whole system was against us. So how upset could we be when clever people said we were no good?

Some things need to be broken.

Your problems are never bigger than you are. It's a geometric impossibility. Though sometimes it may feel like they're larger than an elephant. Okay?

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

No me he permitido pensar en esas cosas, sabiendo que, si me permitiera siquiera un goteo de recuerdos, me ahogaría en una marea que sería incapaz de frenar.

If I tell you that it was my faith, you might say if you have to go through suffering, 'I don't have Corrie ten Boom's faith.' But if I tell you it was Jesus, then you can trust that He who helped me through will do the same for you. I have always believed it, but now I know from my own experience that His light is stronger than the deepest darkness.

People often suffer the most By anticipating suffering that never happens. They, therefore, have more to bear than God gives them to bear.

There's nothing that the God I serve can't fix, even a broken spirit.

And just as a single victory can redeem many a defeat, so a single defeat can devalue or even eradicate a long string of successes.

E, d'altra parte, così come una sola vittoria può riscattarci da molte sconfitte, è pur vero che una sola sconfitta deprezza, se non cancella del tutto, anche una lunghissima serie di successi.

The people who hurt you don't get the last word. You get to tell the story of you, and your story has more power than you can imagine.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger...

Your ghosts cannot have you, Charles. So exorcize them before I have to.

scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.

Heartbreak can be like that, boy," said Zee heavily. "Healthy pain invites healing.