Quotes About Overcoming

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

I was always taught coming back from injuries the last thing you want to do is have a mental game going on with yourself and psyching yourself out and you just start thinking about the injury.

I had an injury that just dug away at me. I would spend every track session crying, attempting to run and breaking down when I couldn't.

When an injury robs a player of his ability to train the way he's accustomed to, there is nearly always an alternative.

I've been through things in life that are way worse than a foot injury.

It's just amazing to see that when you get over your own inner demons or jealousies you have, it's amazing to see what can come of it.

I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

I think when you're not prepared for something, success can be as crippling a thing as failure to people. I think it touches whatever insecurities you have, that you may not be as in touch with you as you should be or whatever.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.

People can change, learn, and grow, and it's better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.

I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

I've really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It's been a real journey.

As pessoas pensam que, depois de ser estuprada, você é só uma vítima', diz Mukunilwa. '[...] a vida continua depois do estupro. O estupro não é o fim. Não é uma identidade imutável.

Andava tão em baixo que tinha perdido a confiança e já sentia o estômago às reviravoltas perante a perspetiva das estradas no Cazaquistão, Mongólia e Sibéria. Quanto a mim, esses três nomes representavam a parte fundamental da nossa aventura e só poderíamos voltar a respirar de alívio quando a tivéssemos ultrapassado.

I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile.

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.

This is your fear," Aggie said to me, her voice like the breath of the cave, slow and low. "Being chained. But you are skinwalker. You cannot be chained.

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being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.