Quotes About Overcoming

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

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

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

They say that everything that happens is for the better. I am not sure about "everything." But what is for sure, that it is strictly up to us to turn our "loss" into our "victory.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

If you're always scared of dying, Obispo had said, you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

Librarse de todo lo desagradable en lugar de aprender a soportarlo. Si es más noble soportar en el alma las pedradas o las flechas de la mala fortuna, o bien alzarse en armas contra un piélago de pesares y acabar con ellos enfrentándose a los mismos... Pero ustedes no hacen ni una cosa ni otra. Ni soportan ni resisten. Se limitan a abolir las pedradas y las flechas. Es demasiado fácil.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios.

Courage is accepting your fear and doing whatever needs to be done anyway. Cowards are people who can't face up to their fear and let it get the better of them. There's always a place for courage. There's always something that can be done. You might not see it right away. Sooner or later something comes to mind that can help you through it. You make up your mind that it's okay to be afraid and you are going to be all right. Then you do what has to be done. That's courage.

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!

My present fortune is a compensation for my former misfortune.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.