Quotes About Overcoming

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

how to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it." "It's not through choice," Sam protested faintly. "Then you must choose to overcome. What happens if you keep giving in to a weak mind? You feed weakness. The result is an even weaker mind in the future. Instead, you must cultivate confidence!

The Indian Buddhist guru Shantideva had some wise words on this very subject," Lobsang said. He began to quote: "'When crows encounter a dying snake, / They will act as though they were eagles. / Likewise, if my self-confidence is weak, / I shall be injured by the slightest downfall.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

Lotus plants grow in poor conditions. Their roots are in the mud, sometimes dirty swamps. But they rise above that. Their flowers are very beautiful. Sometimes when we have problems we, too, can use our difficulties to create something we may not even have considered before. We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

a life lived in fear is no life at all.

In Buddhism"—the lama tilted his head back challengingly—"we would say that you are lazy." Sam's reaction was the opposite of his usual. Color drained from his face. "Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

Then I discover when you take a step forward, even a small step, the fear doesn't exercise such a tight grip. It's still there but it's somehow reduced and you allow yourself to feel less of a helpless victim because ultimately it's the sense of powerlessness that does you in.

You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.

You've had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.

Because fear is the basis of all inhibitions, mastery over fear means the unblocking of whole avenues of life experience that previously had been avoided.

But that young sapling decided it wasn't going to be destroyed by its wounds. It decided to prove it was bigger than the person who harmed it. It accepted the hurt, embraced the experience, and grew around it. That, Tucker, is what forgiveness is.

Just a little progress is freedom from fear.—Bhagavad Gita

It took just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur," Nietzsche said. He is also the one who said that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

The path to a higher power than ego is saying yes to the predicament

My instincts tell me that if people are going to such great lengths to stop me, I should go to even greater lengths to persevere. I would describe that as admirable, yet strangely most people consider it annoying and obnoxious.

I don't think too many prisoners would live under the boots of their misery if they knew that the amount of work is the same to make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. And when we do, we can free ourselves without leaving our cells.

Never be too willing to expose yourself to your weaknesses. Find ways to curve your weaknesses by forming buffers between your vices and your heart.

You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali

Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.

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