Quotes About Overcoming

A lot of people have doubted me because of my size. They think someone like me doesn't deserve to be in the main event, but I think if they knew me, and knew what I've been through in my career, they would respect me.

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

People concentrate on 'oh you can't do that,' or 'you're a bit too big for that' or whatever, rather than just concentrating on what you're good at. It's about being comfortable with the skin you're in, being comfortable within your own mind.

I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.

I had to teach myself how to walk again. It was crazy. I couldn't even make a muscle in my leg. I felt like no muscles in my leg. I was already skinny. It was like my leg was dead.

Self-love knows no impediment.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to leave you stuck in a state of defeat

Everyone has a supremely low moment somewhere along the AT, usually when the urge to quit the trail becomes almost overpowering. The irony of my moment was that I wanted to get back on the trail and didn't know how. I hadn't lost just Katz, my boon companion, but my whole sense of connectedness to the trail. I had lost my momentum, my feeling of purpose. In the most literal way I needed to find my feet again.

The real people are still there, with their problems and potential, hopes and dreams. It's just hard for them to make good decisions when their brains are filled, and their spirits broken, with so much

Failure is not the opposite of success. It's a stepping stone to success.

Does your problem seem bigger than life, bigger than God himself? It isn't. God is infinitely bigger than any problem you ever had or will have, and every time you call a problem unsolvable, you mock God.

fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.