Overcome Quotes

“Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to the other side.

You can go around it.

You can dig under it.

You can fly over it.

You can blow it up.

You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.

You can turn around and go back the way you came.

Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.”
― Jayleigh Cape

“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.”
― Anthony Liccione

“No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come,
but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual.
This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.”
― Toba Beta

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“When I think how sometimes people can be brave enough to overcome any fear, any hardship, it gives me a feeling I can hardly describe. To charge right at the things that are painful and difficult, break through to the other side, and take pleasure in that - don't you think that's truly fantastic? The greater the suffering, the greater the joy in overcoming it.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

“Most Christians speak to God about their mountain instead of speaking to their mountain about God!”
― Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray

“The sun rises bright and beautiful as if it feels no pain.
It must not see, it must not hear, it can't possibly or it would not be able to overcome so defiantly.
My bed creaks and whines when I leave it behind.
I don't know why it tries so hard to hold onto me but yet I continue to try and overcome.
I put on my shirt, my pants that fit me, find my socks and glue my heel back to my boot.
My gloves are lost, my coat is torn but my scarf still keeps me warm and so I continue to try and overcome.
Work has no pride, no place for me but I have no other place to be.
My broken dreams continue to rise, my hopes continue to fade but still I try to overcome.
A broken window and a gas tank on E, it's not Friday so I have to walk each day for at least another three.
And so I walk while the world cries and pleas and tries to swallow me but still I continue and try to overcome.
My lock on my door only turns halfway, but I don't have anything to steal anyway.
My fridge is bare but my cabinet still holds three so I continue to try and overcome.
The news haunts me, the weather threatens to rain down on me but another day has gone by.
And I have overcome, I have overcome … I have overcome - the sun has nothing on me.”
― Jennifer Loren

“In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…”
― Stanice Anderson

“You must always overcome your comfort zone”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.
Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“God’s favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God’s goodness to defeat Satan’s evil nature.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Never give up just because you failed initially”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Yet, the light outside is not the same.
It ticks with madness,
expelled by angry bodies.
Natural light has been
outshone by the fire
of angry, wrathful metal.

So we hide, away from war
and the comforting faces
we once shared our lives with.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“The affairs of the past are like the waters flowing by: they cannot be returned.”
― Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

“There are certain things in this world that a person must do, even if they know it's impossible.”
― Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

“Keep praying for them, that they are learning, and that their struggles and obstacles are not the same ones, but new ones that are challenges they will overcome like those we overcame in the past.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“If the cowards who wage war
Were to fight on the front lines
No more discord would be on earth
And no more innocent people would die

-Ana Claudia (Scheurer) Antunes- great-granddaughter of a soldier killed in the First World War”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer

“Writing with a purpose”
― Hannah Oswine , Poetically, Therapeutically, Spiritually, Dancing Your Way Out of Despair: Overcoming Trauma

“But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling buildings of metal and glass, roads of flawless asphalt, bright electric streetlights;. . .it was a beautiful, impossible sight. A beautiful, improbable, ulikely nation" (Heng 447).”
― Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

“You don’t build the bridge after you cross the canyon, for if you do there will be neither bridge nor crossing. However, the canyon will remain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing about your past allows you to be released from its restrictions and limitations on your present life.”
― Jack Freestone