Quotes About Overcoming

There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.

The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes. ELIZABETH GILBERT

I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had caused her. Now it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear of Rhett's unpredictable power. She transformed them into rage. Rage was strengthening.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

Men from the mountaintops will always come down to the molehill to conquer it. That will always be the vice of the conquerors.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

What are you afraid of, mister, it won't be so bad. You won't die. Berlin's a big place. Where thousands live, there's room for one more.

The first rule of resilience: allow your present crisis to refine you, not define you.

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

Michael Jordan initially failed to make his varsity high school basketball team but became one of the greatest athletes to ever play the sport.

A resilient leader bounces back from adversity better than he was before.

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.