Quotes About Overcoming

And just as he done for thriteen years, he forced his mind to ignore the hurt

The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.

The deepest cuts are healed by faith.

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

Nessun fenomeno al mondo può impedire al sole di risorgere.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. [Thus far written at Passy, 1784.]

for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

You know what your problem is? You're so convinced you're bad, it gets in the way of being good.

When you read that familiar verse you come to the conclusion that the enemy comes in like a flood. But I've got news for you: the flood is the Holy Ghost, not the devil.You

It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.

Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

I saw some comments in regards to my son, people saying: 'I hope your son gets corona.' That's the hard part for me. If you respond to that, people then go: 'Ah, we've got him' and they keep doing it.

If there was a basketball rehab, I'd be the first one admitted.

I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.

I had to teach myself to walk and run again during rehabilitation.

If I was to feel guilty about something, it would be the fact I haven't done enough. I wish there was a million Roman Reigns. So that I could take them all out at once. Then I would feel like I've accomplished something.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.