Quotes About Overcoming

Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

I was at the bottom, man. I was in a deep, deep place. It wasn't like I needed a little bit of medication and a couple of therapy sessions, and then we're back.

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech - one of the exercises was making sure that we say what we want to say and not substitute words.

They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.

There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

High school was difficult for me because I was in the thick of dealing with my depression and anxiety.

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

My experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that I needed.

I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or a problem, it's how you look at the problem; it's how you do it to change your mindset, to dilute the negativity.

People make mistakes, and bad things happen.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.

Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.