Quotes About Overcoming

You can't grow strong without resistance.

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

God specializes in turning weaknesses into strengths. He wants to take your greatest weakness and transform it.

When our dreams shatter and we feel helpless, that's when we have to believe in God's power and presence.

When you think of the limitation in your life, you may be tempted to conclude, "God could never use me." But God is never limited by our limitations.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

It was then that Teddy realised that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

Go ahead, Marlene, thought Edward. Push me around. Do with me as you will. What does it matter? I am broken. Broken.

Fear is a big waste of time.

But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn

TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

W)hen a load is too heavy for one horse to pull, what do we do? Hitch another to it, don't we? That's just common sense. Well, son, things that sort of weigh on a man's mind and heart may be too heavy for him to make much headway with alone.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Whoever heard of a king who was scared of tall trees and a little bit of water?

the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he'd been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering I'm okay, it's okay until the words penetrated.

And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monsters.

has been afraid of all of these things at one time or another. Ever since he went to prison, he's realized that he doesn't have to be afraid. All he has to do is come up with a plan. Be prepared. It's just like the Boy Scouts, except you have to be even more prepared. You have to prepare for everything that the Boy Scouts didn't prepare you for, which is pretty much everything.

Kelly McClymer