Overcome Quotes

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Don't pay attention to people
Who tell you can't do it at lenght.
Trusting your own instincts
Can lead to what's quintessential.
Make their limitation be your strenght.
You might as well contradict them
And then reach your full potential.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“It will be your deepest tragedy that will give you the courage to fly.”
― Nikki Rowe

“‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“With faith in God, we shall overcome any situation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.”
― Cecelia Ahern

“Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The​ ​Gospels​ ​are​ ​full​ ​of​ ​testimonies​ ​of​ ​God’s​ ​power​ ​from​ ​eyewitnesses​ ​who​ ​saw​ ​Jesus heal​ ​the​ ​sick​ ​and​ ​raise​ ​the​ ​dead.​ ​​ ​When​ ​the​ ​blind​ ​man​ ​received​ ​sight,​ ​he​ ​went​ ​and​ ​told​ ​others. When​ ​the​ ​Samaritan​ ​woman​ ​received​ ​living​ ​water​ ​from​ ​Jesus,​ ​she​ ​went​ ​back​ ​to​ ​tell​ ​what happened​ ​to​ ​her,​ ​and​ ​“many​ ​of​ ​the​ ​Samaritans​ ​from​ ​that​ ​town​ ​believed​ ​in​ ​Him​ ​because​ ​of​ ​the woman’s​ ​testimony”​ ​(John​ ​4:39).​ ​​ ​Revelation​ ​12:11​ ​says​ ​we​ ​overcome​ ​the​ ​evil​ ​one​ ​by​ ​the​ ​word of​ ​our​ ​testimony.​ ​​ ​When​ ​the​ ​orphans​ ​​tell​,​ ​they​ ​experience​ ​God’s​ ​power​ ​at​ ​work​ ​in​ ​them;​ ​when others​ ​​hear​,​ ​their​ ​faith​ ​is​ ​strengthened.​ ​​ ​When​ ​we​ ​gather​ ​to​ ​share​ ​our​ ​stories,​ ​I​ ​know​ ​the​ ​devil runs​ ​out​ ​the​ ​door​ ​when​ ​the​ ​smallest,​ ​weakest​ ​orphan​ ​stands​ ​up​ ​to​ ​attest​ ​to​ ​the​ ​goodness​ ​of God.​ ​(p178)”
― Eric Irivuzumugabe, My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide

“A great man beats his fears into submission, while everyone else around him is beaten into submission.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? “Events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic,” Bonanno told me, in December. “To call something a ‘traumatic event’ belies that fact.” He has coined a different term: PTE, or potentially traumatic event, which he argues is more accurate.

The theory is straightforward. Every frightening event, no matter how negative it might seem from the sidelines, has the potential to be traumatic or not to the person experiencing it. Take something as terrible as the surprising death of a close friend: you might be sad, but if you can find a way to construe that event as filled with meaning—perhaps it leads to greater awareness of a certain disease, say, or to closer ties with the community—then it may not be seen as a trauma. The experience isn’t inherent in the event; it resides in the event’s psychological construal.

It’s for this reason, Bonanno told me, that “stressful” or “traumatic” events in and of themselves don’t have much predictive power when it comes to life outcomes. “The prospective epidemiological data shows that exposure to potentially traumatic events does not predict later functioning,” he said. “It’s only predictive if there’s a negative response.” In other words, living through adversity, be it endemic to your environment or an acute negative event, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll suffer going forward. What matters is whether that adversity becomes traumatizing.”
― Maria Konnikova

“I trust God that through all life changes , He is in control.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“With the strength of God, we shall overcome every struggle.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is better to BESIEGE than to be UNDER SIEGE!”
― Pastor Rod W. Larkins

“It is not the obstacles that is the mountain ;but it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with the obstacles and how to overcome it”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It is important to remember that good overcomes evil”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“When faced with challenges, if you can not CHANGE the situation, NEVER WORRY, replace worry with FAITH. If you can change the situation, makes steps in order to overcome. Always remember worrying does not solve your challenge, it only adds to it!”
― Hopal Green

“With God, everything will work for my good.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulnerable by how we think about things,” Bonanno said. In research at Columbia, the neuroscientist Kevin Ochsner has shown that teaching people to think of stimuli in different ways—to reframe them in positive terms when the initial response is negative, or in a less emotional way when the initial response is emotionally “hot”—changes how they experience and react to the stimulus. You can train people to better regulate their emotions, and the training seems to have lasting effects.

Training people to change their explanatory styles from internal to external (“Bad events aren’t my fault”), from global to specific (“This is one narrow thing rather than a massive indication that something is wrong with my life”), and from permanent to impermanent (“I can change the situation, rather than assuming it’s fixed”) made them more psychologically successful and less prone to depression. The same goes for locus of control: not only is a more internal locus tied to perceiving less stress and performing better but changing your locus from external to internal leads to positive changes in both psychological well-being and objective work performance. The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

Unfortunately, the opposite may also be true. “We can become less resilient, or less likely to be resilient,” Bonanno says. “We can create or exaggerate stressors very easily in our own minds. That’s the danger of the human condition.” Human beings are capable of worry and rumination: we can take a minor thing, blow it up in our heads, run through it over and over, and drive ourselves crazy until we feel like that minor thing is the biggest thing that ever happened. In a sense, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Frame adversity as a challenge, and you become more flexible and able to deal with it, move on, learn from it, and grow. Focus on it, frame it as a threat, and a potentially traumatic event becomes an enduring problem; you become more inflexible, and more likely to be negatively affected.”
― Maria Konnikova

“You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What matter most is to complete the journey.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the suffering.”
― Rachel K Kidder, Healing Grace Scripture Journal: 30 Day Bible Study Journal For Emotional Healing

“Often we overlook the troublesome times and attach ourselves to the lessons, defining the next chapter from the last. Be free of this perspective, lifes stages are continuous but the lessons dont have to be.”
― Nikki rowe

“Conquering something is a step by step learning curb, be lighthearted in the quest of overcoming.”
― Nikki rowe

“Maybe in time most wounds will heal; but this, this tragedy - it will last with me an entire lifetime. I can either make it my greatest story or fall short of who i am supposed to be, thats the only real choice i have left in all of this and from there my path will begin.”
― Nikki Rowe