overcoming quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.