Quotes About Overcoming

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

As we address extreme weather and pandemic disease, we will understand and overcome racism and bigotry so we can safely and together do space.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

A lot of people didn't think I would be here. But I put myself in great positions and I always had the mentality that what is meant for me is meant for me. The only person that can stop you is yourself.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

If there's something negative about you, you've got to bring out the positive to the front.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

We all have fear in life. I don't let that fear control me. I control it, manage it, use it as a positive.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.

I feel like I should show people that no matter where you come from - you can get beat by your stepdad, if you get picked on for your clothes and having no money - I just feel like everyone should know it will be all right as long as you keep focusing on trying to move forward and looking at the positive things in life.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.