Quotes About Overcoming

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

A positive vision is what keeps us going despite the misfortunes and setbacks that fill our lives. The sole disadvantage is that it stops us to seeing evil.

Great griefs are antidotes / for lesser sorrows

there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...

I am more than my scars.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...

How could you escape a past that was so determined to make you pay?

Ja sam više od svojih ožiljaka.

Andrew Gross

Staten Island Advance

Acaso estaban tan devastados que con el paso del tiempo, al llegarles la hora, era más fácil someterse que oponer resistencia? ¿O era porque entendían que resistirse era inútil de cualquier modo y que sólo estarían retrasando lo inevitable?

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.