#Overcoming Quotes

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.”

“In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.”

“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.”

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction”

“You defeat defeatism with confidence.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

“If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.”

“One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.”

“Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.”

“You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”

“To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.”

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”

“Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”

“The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

“Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was”

“Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.”

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

“Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."”

“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”

“I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!”

“Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.”

“Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.”

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

“In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.”

“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.”

“I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.”

“Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”

“The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.”

“Movement overcomes cold.”

“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”

“What is the strongest cure?--Victory.”

“The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.”

“Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.”

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”

“I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.”

“Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.”

“We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.”