Quotes about Overcoming

Whenever something comes into our life that hurts us, we do the decidin'—do I let this work for my good, as God intended, or do I let bitterness grow like a bothersome canker sore in my soul?

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

While the control of sin has been broken, the sin that remains in us still puts up a real fight.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

Aren't we all like that battling giant of the forest? Don't we manage somehow to survive the rare storms and avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let our hearts be eaten out by little beetles of worry—little beetles that could be crushed between a finger and a thumb?