Quotes About Overcome

I struggle with control.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

This is something I've struggled with a lot: how to relate to the fear in a constructive way. It's not that you eliminate the fear. We have all the fears. That's natural; that's human beings. But how do you deal with the fears, how do you engage with your fears in a way that's productive?

There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.

I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don't make you a great fighter, but fighting - or, I should say, martial arts - helps you overcome your obstacles.

My favorite phrase is, 'God only gives struggles to people who can overcome it.' I saw it in a book, and it helped me out so much.

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.

In reality, we can only talk about things that we already overcame in our minds.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.