Quotes About Overcoming

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

If the Big Show lands on you when you're on the ground, you're not getting back up. He'll pick you up like a sack of crap and toss you over the top rope.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

People who lack the native physical, social, or mental gifts they desire must fight just that much harder. And that uphill battle can produce qualities and strengths they couldn't develop any other way. That is how a weakness can become a strength.

Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.

Jordan didn't make his sophomore team because he was deemed too short and average to play at that level. Stan Smith, a world-class tennis player

The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James in his court.

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company. In his youth, Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything." Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.

Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.

Alexander's adamantine will and belief in himself stemmed from the fact that he was willing to out-plan, out-work, and outlast anyone. He didn't chase dubious shortcuts, and in some cases, purposely avoided them just to experience the glory of overcoming a great challenge. He didn't beg for the favor of the gods; he strove to overawe them.

I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans.

Ty sådana fålar finna livet svårt, som inte tåla sporre eller piska. Vid varje smärta, som övergår dem, skena de åstad på vilda vägar mot gapande avgrunder. Så snart vägen är stenig och färden bekymmersam, veta de ingen annan råd än att välta lasset och fara åstad i galenskap.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The world is dark, selfish, and cruel. If it finds the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it,

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall

Look at anybody you admire — from Mother Teresa to Nelson Mandela — and you'll find that their life was filled with great pain. You'll also see that they met the deep challenge of that pain with love. In so doing, they found the call that defined their lives.