Quotes About Overcoming

I've failed over and over and over again in my life... and that is why I succeed"—Michael Jordan

He fallado una y otra vez en mi vida, por eso he conseguido el éxito.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.

Success was his chosen form of revenge.

He'd played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could play wide receiver for the Harvard varsity football team.

She had got beyond despair.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past; what matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered and reinforced.

They blinded themselves to the obvious. That is the great triumph of mindless need over intelligence and the human spirit.

that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.

I wanted to find one law to cover all of living. I found fear....

If a wound is great you cannot turn it into something that is spoken, it can barely be written.

Whenever history and culture seem stifling, weeds begin to look good.

One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it's the other one, 'Still I Rise.'

When I see a woman make it over all the obstacles, my heart just sings.

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

I remember when I was like, 'I want to get another shot.' And some of the other actors on 'Sister, Sister' were like, 'Do you know that's like a 1%, 2% chance for you to get another successful show? That just doesn't happen.' But whenever I hear, 'No,' or 'You can't,' something inside of me just goes, 'Oh no, yes I can!'

I actually feel extremely proud of my family and sisters. Both of my sisters are doing well with their careers and are both determined people. I am so proud of my family and the things that they overcome.

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

I broke my sixth vertebrae.