Quotes About Overcoming

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not'.

When the towers again twin-tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builder's collective voice. Together, we will rejoice in an aerial song of victory. I will carry my life across the wire, as your life, as all our lives, past, present, and future -the lives lost, the lives welcomed since. we can overcome.

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Broken hearts mend. It's a lot harder to mend broken lives.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

La foudre abat les monts, non les petites herbes

I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.

Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something.

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.

Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you're considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.

Obviously I've had my setbacks, but those have enabled me to be the man I am today.