Quotes About Overcoming

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Fern Michaels

Fern Michaels

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

Siempre he creído que la virtud estaba en obtener lo que no se alcanza, en vivir donde no se está, en estar más vivo después de muerto que cuando se estaba vivo, en conseguir, en fin, algo difícil, absurdo, en vencer, como un obstáculo, la propia realidad del mundo.

It's as if someone were using my life to beat me with.

I've always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one's reach, in living where one isn't, in being more alive after death than during life, in achieving something impossible, something absurd, in overcoming – like an obstacle – the world's very reality.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn't the fastest guy.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Whenever there's something you've done that everybody and their mother said you couldn't do, and it was like an impossible feat, of course, it's awesome.

I don't believe in feeling victimised. Instead, I like facing it on. Would I like to change a few things in life? Yes! But at the end of the day, mistakes are the dues you get to have a full life.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

What happened to me against Prescott didn't make Prescott a better fighter than me.

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.

You're always fighting the demons.

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.