Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. — Marvin J. Ashton
The hardest victory is the victory over self. — Aristotle
Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen
Great is the man who can overcome the
world, but greater still is the man who can
overcome himself, for he will have the world
spinning on the palm of his hand. — Confucius
With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains — Georges St-Pierre
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. — Matt Groening
There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them. — DJ Khaled
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. — Harry Golden
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. — W. Clement Stone
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.
Depression Overcoming Quotes
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew. — Saint Francis de Sales
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. — Steven Wright
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer — Ricky Gervais
There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure. — Woody Allen
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. — Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Overcoming Quotes
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. — Wilma Rudolph
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. — Helen Keller
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward
I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything! — Sasha Azevedo
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Plato
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is. — Danielle LaPorte
There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition. — Steve Ross
The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones. — William Walker Atkinson
Fear Overcoming Quotes
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia Earhart
If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are! — Iyanla Vanzant
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. — A. B. Simpson
Inspirational Overcoming Quotes
I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon. — T. B. Joshua
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S. R. Ranganathan
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
Strength comes from overcoming adversity, not avoiding it.
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. — Wilma Mankiller
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. — Kate Sheppard
Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. And walk through it.
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. — Whoopi Goldberg
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save. — Annie Besant
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry
Strength Overcoming Quotes
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. — Kyuzo Mifune
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage. — J. Edgar Hoover
Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate. — Gichin Funakoshi
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. — Edgar Schein
The only thing you can learn anything worthwhile from...is through your failures.
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought. — Arthur Blank
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid — Robert Liparulo
Sometimes God will put a Goliath in your life, to bring out the David within you. Chin up. Look up. Rise up. — Patrick Bet-David
Facing your fears robs them of their power. — Mark Burnett
Anxiety Overcoming Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. — Bill Struth
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. — Harold Stephens
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger
Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions. — R. C. Sproul
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself. — David Sheff
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't. — Luke Davies
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. — Leo Buscaglia
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. — Ayn Rand
Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome. — M. Russell Ballard
I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma. — Chath Piersath
If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction. — Ryan Montgomery
What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater. — Mao Zedong
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ — Thomas Chalmers
When it comes to procrastination and overthinking, we have to overcome our self-doubt. — Jay Shetty
You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them. — Idina Menzel
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie
The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good. — Eric Butterworth
Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith. — Royden G. Derrick
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing. — Nathaniel Branden
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway. — Tamara Mellon
Don't fear failure. That shit is powerful. Fear mediocrity. That will waste your entire life. — Tom Bilyeu
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Solomon
It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. — Amy Purdy
It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control. — Iyanla Vanzant
It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning. — Nina Dobrev
What keeps a person passive and compliant is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don’t ultimately matter – money, career, physical safety – you can overcome that fear. — Glenn Greenwald
There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson
The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear. — Anthony Hopkins
Overcoming Obstacles Quotes
We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life. — Ernest Holmes
The journey has to be based on passion. Put yourself in something you love to do. If you love what you do you're able to dedicate yourself, overcome obstacles. — Rickson Gracie
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. — Barbara Sher
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. — Woodrow Wilson
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. — Les Brown
No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. — Roy Lessin
There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe. — H. G. Wells
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. — Brian Boitano
Overcoming Adversity Quotes
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. — Nick Saban
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. — Simone Weil
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more. — Zig Ziglar
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down. — Shawn Johnson
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Overcoming Challenges Quotes
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. — Mark Twight
Danger can only be overcome by more danger — Greek Proverbs
Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does. — Jake Paul
In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working. — Devon Aoki
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge. — Richard Branson
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. — Randy Pausch
Life is infinitely great but your problems make it small for you. — Vishesh Panthi
Overcoming Difficulties Quotes
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. — Henry Tudor
Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. — Norman Vincent Peale
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community. — Larry Crabb
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. — C. S. Lewis
In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it. — Indira Gandhi
The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose.
Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win. — Aleksandr Karelin
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. — Benjamin Franklin
Overcoming Failure Quotes
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. — Twyla Tharp
There is no failure except in no longer trying. — Chris Bradford
Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger — Michael Kirby
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. — Napoleon Hill
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James E. Burke
Everything you want is on the other side of fear. — Jack Canfield
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. — John Keats
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet. — Wayne Dyer
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. — Norman Vincent Peale
Overcoming Defeat Quotes
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It’s ok to cry..!! You can overcome — Eiichiro Oda
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it. — Norman Vincent Peale
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio — Rudolfo Anaya
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb. — D. A. Carson
Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty. — Sam Storms
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. — Theodore Roosevelt
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. — Beverley Nichols
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. — Stephen Harper
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. — Samuel Johnson
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Lao Tzu
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. — Dorothy Height
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. — George S. Patton
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can. — Oscar Romero
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