Quotes About Overcoming

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

You're just one of the guys who fills a suit, and that's what's drilled into you by the record company and the management - 'You're lucky to have it. Now shut your mouth.' I get where that comes from, but it takes time to shake it off.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.

I just got to do what I have to do to make it possible, and that's to win the Super Bowl. When it comes, the doubters gon' still be there so it really don't matter.

If I never got cut, I wouldn't have the Super Bowl ring.

People were saying John Elway should retire until he won the Super Bowl.

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.

But it is over now; I have survived it.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. ? Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . (Vintage International; 2nd edition March 14, 1995) Originally published 1952.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.