Quotes About Overcoming

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.

I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

I had six surgeries on my left toe and another six on the right toe.

I can't really say I miss my toes.

Money is a token, money buys freedom, it don't necessarily buy happiness and I've still got things I'm overcoming in my own mind, but money will buy you the freedom to not have to work as many hours. Money will buy you the freedom to spend more time with your family.

We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure.

Only you can decide what breaks you .

I want to shed my fears one by one until there is nothing left of me.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

People are capable of so much more than they think they are. It's possible to rekindle relationships you thought were lost. Build a new life when the old one was dead. Learn new habits. Break old ones.

Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.

Up!" Mimi said sharply. "Lying there howling never gives you anything but a headache, and the only good reason to get a headache is because you've drunk too much champagne.

And there's also the thrill, every time, of knowing that everything in the world tried to stop this woman next to you in bed from being there, but she got through anyway, only because she wanted to and had decided to.

These are stories but the pain they contain is immeasurable. The impact of these losses requires a consciousness beyond most human ability. We grow weary, numb, alienated, and then begin to forget, to put it all away just to be able to move on. But even the putting away is an abusive act. The experiencing, the remembering, the hiding, the overcoming—all leave their scars.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet." William Blake

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.