Quotes About Overcoming

Nothing in the years to come can do worse than she was ready to do to herself.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

As my father, Saint Francis, put it, "If you have once faced the great death, the second death can do you no harm.

As Rilke put it, "When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

You're trying to believe in yourself. And every time you try to find a way to live, your own mind stands in the way. You know why that is? It's because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind. His feelings drag him forward and his mind, full of what others say about him, tells him to go back

There would have to hover above him, like the stars in a full sky, a vast configuration of images and symbols whose magic and power could lift him up and make him live so intensely that the dread of being black and unequal would be forgotten; that even death would not matter, that it would be a victory

Terror traps us all from time to time, but the important thing is not to let it build walls around us.

I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean...nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.

Don't untie me, she said, no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself. Are you trying to tempt me? Ha-ha.

YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO!

At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me.

Um, uh, gah.

Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.

Great, Percy said. Seven of us against Hercules. And a satyr! Hedge added. We can take him.

Jason sighed miserably. "That's supposed to be my job. I'm always the one who gets knocked in the head.

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

Out of every tragedy, he said, comes new strength.

Faith that you will find a way to make wine out of your sour grapes.

Sometimes things don't end okay.

something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me...

They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.