Quotes About Overcoming

Real heroes and true leaders have emerged only when they were wounded and were left alone to die.

I have a thing for working with wounded characters.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Our deepest wounds when integrated become our greatest power.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.

If there's a moment on the record to reach people where they are, it's 'Even If'. We're ministers first. We're trying to reach the hurting first. This song wrecked us.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I'm just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, 'Gail, women's wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don't want to see it.' I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I'm glad that we girls proved them wrong.

Any place is really tough to wrestle until you get over. Once you get over, it doesn't matter if you're on television or an armory, it all becomes pretty easy.

Everybody in this business has lost. Undertaker's lost at WrestleMania, and that was never supposed to happen, but it did.

I'm a wrestler with nine toes. I'm a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, 'You never quit. You keep coming back.'

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

I didn't think I could become a wrestler, and I did it.

Everybody told me I was too small to be a wrestler.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

In real life I have conquered my worst fears by fighting and beating bigger wrestlers in dangal. So I am not afraid of anything.

I had been wrestling with a fracture in my elbow and a slight tear in my triceps for quite some time, but it was continuing to get worse. As I worked through it, I ended up dislocating my shoulder and tearing my labrum. All of these injuries were on the same arm, so things like working out or even sleeping became increasingly difficult.