Quotes About Overcoming

Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Life is not just one dark moment after another.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.