Quotes about Overcoming
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
— John Newton
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
— JM Coetzee
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...
— Jack Kerouac
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
— Amy Carmichael
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
— Paulo Coelho
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
— Norman Vincent Peale
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
— Bishop TD Jakes