Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard. — Miep Gies
True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart. — Rickson Gracie
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Sayings
Strength is a matter of a made up mind. — John Beecher
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. — Norman Vincent Peale
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. — Thomas Carlyle
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau
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
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. — Ovid
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't. — Henry Rollins
Strength To Overcome Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Overcoming Weakness Quotes
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
A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery. — Andre Agassi
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. — Tryon Edwards
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. — Norman Vincent Peale
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. — Christopher Reeve
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. — Vince Cable
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree. — Buddha
Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete. — Toni Nadal
Strength To Fight Quotes
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. — Harriet Tubman
There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. — Akira Toriyama
Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them. — Anuradha Koirala
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going. — Rita Ora
I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living. — Frida Kahlo
If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy. — Shang Yang
Silence is a source of great strength.
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. — Emilie Autumn
I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man. — Karen Hawkins
A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it. — Ronald Reagan
I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles. — Pier Giorgio Frassati
Regaining Strength Quotes
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. — George W. Bush
I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength. — Cher
I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough. — Karen Marie Moning
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre. — Evan Rachel Wood
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. — Mohamed El-Erian
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act. — Vera Nazarian
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power. — Garry Kasparov
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them. — Narendra Modi
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths. — Donald Tusk
Strength Through Adversity Quotes
Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road. — Patience Strong
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' — Eleanor Roosevelt
Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. — Betty Smith
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us. — Rachael Bermingham
Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength. — Sylvia Browne
You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind. — Dr. Seuss
A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts. — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith. — Jerry Costello
Strength In Adversity Quotes
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence. — Herodotus
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. — Dag Hammarskjold
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. — Walt Disney
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — Winston Churchill
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. — Momofuku Ando
I Will Overcome Quotes
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. — Sayings
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
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. — Twyla Tharp
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
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
Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.' — Maya Angelou
Hang on to this with your life: "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." — Albert Mohler
There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon. — Jonas Salk
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome. — Nick Vujicic
Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world' — Pope Leo XIII
You Can Overcome Quotes
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
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
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia Earhart
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. — Barbara Sher
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
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. — Sylvie Guillem
You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough — Lionel Messi
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope. — Catherine Marshall
Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package. — Conor McGregor
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
God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it. — Zig Ziglar
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. — Simone Weil
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. — Whoopi Goldberg
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
Strength To Endure Quotes
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John F. Kennedy
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition. — Benazir Bhutto
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. — Cesar Chavez
When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one. — William Wallace
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. — Walter Martin
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
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
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
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used. — Kano Jigoro
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
It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition. — B. R. Ambedkar
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
Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset! — Ann Coulter
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God. — Therese of Lisieux
I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world. — Mother Teresa
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you. — Daisaku Ikeda
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. — Michael Jordan
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. — Peter Bayne
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
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. — Norman Vincent Peale
The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless. — Robert Guiscard
What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome. — Eve Ensler
In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome. — Charles L. Allen
Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane. — O.C.
The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome. — Lafcadio Hearn
Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won. — Robert M. Hensel
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. — Stephen Covey
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again! — Adam Johnson
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you. — Joel Osteen
I admire the strength and courage of all young people faced with difficult situations in life. You are an inspiration to me and so many people around you, as you overcome challenges and come out of it stronger. — Fearne Cotton
We're all products of our environment, and I suspect that strength of will - the feeling, "I'm going to be able to do whatever you put in front of me" - is honed in an environment where not everything is easy. Ironically, growing up in that environment, you don't have a sense of aggrievement or entitlement. You just have a sense of overcoming. — Condoleezza Rice
I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times! — Ludwig van Beethoven
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. — Asger Jorn
(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay. — Vincent de Paul
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. — Helen Keller
If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences. — Ronald E. Poelman
Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses. — Zig Ziglar
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength. — Lao Tzu
Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine. — Liz Chase
I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way. — Bethany Hamilton
Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles. — John M Barry
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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