Quotes About Overcoming

When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off.

C'est en s'engageant dans l'action que l'on bat la peur.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The worst thing is never the last thing.

Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.

He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use all the soap in your group bathing wells. Know that change is achievable and that happy endings do come, for this story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

You can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

Ogni volta che la dea necessità mi prese nelle sue braccia e minacciò di stritolarmi, crebbe parimenti la volontà di resistenza, e la mia volontà seppe vincere

Life does not forgive weakness.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

Living hell is the best revenge.

I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.