Overcoming Quotes

The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither was the nurse. The nurse tried to push you back in, but I shit on the table and when you came out, you landed in my shit.If there ever was a way to sum things up, the story of my birth was it.

~ Sierra D. Waters

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

~ Rachel L. Schade

There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one’s innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end.

~ Connie Kerbs

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.

~ Dana Arcuri

We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Feelings are something you have, not something you are.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

~ Shannon L. Alder

As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but makes you stronger. The road is not always an easy route. Nevertheless, you must not allow your fears to keep you from reaching the destination.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

~ Tiffany Madison

When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.

~ Marty Rubin

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

~ Christopher Paolini

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.

~ Nikki Rowe

At the moment when the road looks the harshest, and you think you cannot continue on that is when you relearn your first mode of transportation; you crawl. You dig your fingers into the dirt, and propel yourself forward with your toes, but you never give up. You've gotta learn to bend with the sway. You never know what is around the next curve.

~ Sai Marie Johnson

To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.

~ Anna Lee Huber

Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I am not enough in myself, I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.

~ Anna White

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

~ George Müller

The purpose of life is the lesson.

~ Shannon L. Alder

After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes.

~ Harriet Reuter Hapgood

If you want to heal a broken heart,Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Stay strong in spirit, be patient and you will overcome any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren't thick enough and why my feet aren't small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then try to fit ourselves into those stupid molds? Why do I take the beauty that is me, and measure it up to a shoe size? A length of hair on my eyes? Am I not the more wonderful creation, far more great than those stupid things? Why do we take ourselves and desecrate ourselves daily? Pushing ourselves into cubicles because we think we are supposed to fit into them? Are we ice cubes? And suddenly I just don't understand the inadequacies anymore! Because they're not even inadequacies, at all! I will laugh and be beautiful.

~ C. Joybell C.

You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

~ Orrin Woodward

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

~ Ellen G. White

Sometimes there’s a fire in your life and you ask God,“Lord, let me go around the fire.” And God says, “No.”Then you ask, “Lord, then let me go over the fire.”And God says, “No.” Then you ask, “Well Lord, please let me go under the fire.” And God says, “No. Go through the fire and I’ll be with you.

~ Lydia Thornton

My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go to find purpose for their existence.It is a place where humans cast all inhibitions aside to discover what exists at their very core.It is a place of growth wearing a mask of destruction.It is a challenge, not for the faint of heart, beckoning us to face it with eyes wide open.The only war is within. When you are ready to fight it, the field awaits.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

I don’t believe in the Law of Attraction. There were things I wanted in my life that no amount of positive thinking was going to make it a reality for me. However, I have learned to believe in the Law of Tough Love. Life has thrown a dozen tragedies at me. I did what any Christian would do--prayed for the outcome I wanted, but God was tough and only gave me what I needed. I now realize that life is not about fulfilling a wish list; rather a need list. Good and bad experiences are on the horizon. How else does a person change, grow and evolve? And just like any warrior woman, I won’t simply survive-- but thrive!

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

~ Rob Liano

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

~ Martha Gellhorn

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

~ Criss Jami