Quotes About Overcoming

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

I had trouble in high school, and it has really pushed me to do something big and make a difference.

Dealing with bullies when I was in sixth and seventh grade has made me a better football player, believe it or not. You have to come to a point when you're like, 'I've had enough, and I'm not going to be kicked around and pushed around anymore.'

I've really learned to build this inner strength and inner confidence of knowing that I can get through anything because I know what I've pushed through in the past.

You cannot get bogged down by failure - you have to keep pushing.

I love to train hard. My only answer to setbacks was pushing harder.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Along the way, I learned a lot about being told I didn't have the right skills for the jobs I wanted and how to overcome the setbacks and keep pushing forward. This is why I've become an Ambassador for LifeSkills, a programme created by Barclays to help one million young people get the skills they need for work.

I've faced adversity countless, countless times throughout my life. One thing I've always preached is keep pushing.

People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.

After being temporarily paralyzed, it puts a lot of things in perspective.

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

When I get hurt, I fix it and go back fighting.

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

I was just too heavy, flat out too heavy.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

At the top, I was flying high. I didn't understand what it meant to be down and out.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.

I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.