Quotes About Overcoming

We all lose sometimes. Life's plenty easy when you're winning. It's what you do when you're down. That's the real test.

Like a football being held underwater, as soon as you let go, it rises to the surface. And like the grass pressing up through the cracks in a city pavement, your resilience and clarity is always doing its best to find its way through the paving slabs of your superstitious thinking.

Never let anyone tell you that you're too big, too small, too skinny, too weak, too slow, too dumb, or too much this or not enough that to accomplish your dream. Anything is possible when you work hard and believe in yourself.

but I tell you now that it's not too late---no matter how deep the wound. (Regarding forgiveness)

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

We're all broken. Some of us are just in more pieces. It's how we handle it that makes us brave, and from where I'm sitting, you're the bravest person I've ever met.

In every person's story there are unknowns-struggles only they know about, fears they've tried to overcome but still harbor, disappointments & sorrows they bear. The last thing any of us wants-or needs-is to be judged by others who don't know our stories, in part or at all.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

Fear has trapped me, rendered me immobile and powerless. I'd forgotten I even had wings, let alone how to use them.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

we all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.

no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Greater are those who are with us than those who are against us.

You can't let your past write the future

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success."

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

There is an incredible feeling of strength that comes with walking through the fires of Hell and coming out with the prize. The prize, that part of oneself that is rescued, is the confidence that comes with facing down seemingly insurmountable odds and coming out better than when you went in.

Joskus katselen rystysteni arpia, muistelen lapsuuden opetuksia. 'Jos ovi ei aukene, se aukaistaan.