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Quotes About Overcoming

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
~ Charles Spurgeon
What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
~ James A. Baldwin
Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.
~ Jon Gordon
Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
~ Napoleon Hill
Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
~ Bethany Hamilton
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
~ Earl Nightingale
My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.
~ Kate McKinnon
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
~ Richard Branson
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
~ Joyce Meyer, Any Minute
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
~ Jack Kerouac
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
~ David Copperfield
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
~ Friedrich Schiller
If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.
~ Michael Jordan
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
~ Andre Gide
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
~ Charles Fletcher Lummis
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
~ Joyce Meyer
If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something.
~ Jim Garrett
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
~ Alonzo Mourning
Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
~ Brian Tracy
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney