Top 100 Overcoming Life Quotes
#1. God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
Oswald Chambers
#2. I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.
Guy Burnet
#4. Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia
#5. I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes
I hear angels sing.
Carrie Fisher
#6. I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.
Anna White
#7. There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.
Eric Bates
#8. It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Herbie Hancock
#9. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
Tom Althouse
#10. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#11. Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears
Sunday Adelaja
#12. Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.
Thomas S. Monson
#14. Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.
Miya Yamanouchi
#15. SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.
Shiv Khera
#16. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
#18. Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.
Jonathan Bailey
#20. 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.
Jason Reitman
#21. No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#22. You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. Yes, we will get hurt. Our hearts will break, and if we are lucky they will break open. When they do, we can begin to experience ourselves, relationships - indeed all of life - in a deeper, richer, and more meaningful way.
Randy Siegel
#24. A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths
Daisaku Ikeda
#25. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#27. I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.
Matthias Schoenaerts
#28. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.
Thubten Yeshe
#30. Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back
Kya Aliana
#31. You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day ... overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.
Richie Norton
#33. When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
Nelson Mandela
#35. Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny.
Anthony Liccione
#36. The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.
Christine M. Knight
#37. Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Che Guevara
#38. The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.
The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life ... even nicotine cravings
Aristotle.
#40. It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.
Johnny Miller
#41. Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
Kathleen McDonald
#42. No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.
William J. Clinton
#43. Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.
Steve Chandler
#44. The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.
Stephen Richards
#45. When you become more spiritual, you can easily adjust to the loss of anyone significant in your life.
Linda Alfiori
#46. You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.
Jackie Morris
#47. I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
yet cannot overcome - and so I live. Would I had never lived!
Lord Byron
#48. I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.
Jc Caylen
#49. No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
Harold Pinter
#50. Focusing on the good isn't just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It's about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
Shawn Achor
#52. The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.
Edgar Cayce
#53. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.
Dana Arcuri
#54. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
#55. The road to overcoming your fears could lead you to unbearable places but sometimes such gives you an edge than nothing else could give.
Auliq Ice
#56. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.
Cathy Lamb
#58. Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.
Mark Victor Hansen
#60. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
#62. Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.
Emily Page
#65. The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#66. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#67. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
Banana Yoshimoto
#68. My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.
Heather Schuck
#69. Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.
Meg Jay
#70. I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.
Brooke Burns
#72. The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Thomas S. Monson
#73. Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.
Robin Roberts
#74. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.
Richard G. Scott
#75. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
Thornton T. Munger
#76. See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
Wayne Dyer
#77. I will not die an unlived life ... I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me ... I choose to risk my significance.
Dawna Markova
#79. Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.
Gibson, Chrissy
#80. it's not the obstacles in our life that define us. It's the grace we display when overcoming them.
Tracy Brogan
#81. I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
Baba Amte
#82. Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.
Paul Theroux
#83. Courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.
Jodi Picoult
#84. Love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
Thomas Merton
#85. Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..
Jon Krakauer
#87. There are uncertainties in life. The development of inner strength is vital for overcoming any adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and beauty in the world. Divinity means overcoming the limitations of nature in new ways.
Amit Ray
#89. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
#90. Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.
Laurence Overmire
#91. To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
Richie Norton
#92. Face your fears and you will be able to conquer them.
Bohdi Sanders
#93. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
Michael Levy
#94. I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.
Nikki Rowe
#95. Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them.
Dean Karnazes
#96. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.
JohnA Passaro
#97. The next time that something seemingly bad happens to you, look for the divine in it. Look for the soul in the mundane, every day occurrences of your life. Look for the spark, look for the light.
Leigh Hershkovich
#98. As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.
Greg Walloch
#99. Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. The Key to overcoming the challenges in life is to make up your mind to overcome the Challenge
Carlton Young
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