Quotes About Overcoming

We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.

You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

To be honest with you, getting knocked out isn't that bad. It's not what everybody makes it out to be.

If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.

I not only went back to the 'All Stars' gig for myself but also for my fans. I wanted them to see the story of even if you get knocked down, you get back up, you keep going and you can win.

Any time I've been knocked down, I've come back even better. I think everyone knows that about me.

I've been knocked out and I've lost, but I've won a lot more.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

I'd wanted to become a doctor and couldn't - yet became the best known doctor in the galaxy.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith,

Self-pity is a parasite that feeds on itself. Many of us are inclined toward self-pity, not allowing for the balance of life's natural tragedies. We will face good and bad times—and they will pass. With certainty they will pass.

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

Tony wanted to kill me, the Senate wanted to make me their stooge, and, oh, yeah, I'd also managed to piss off the mages. What can I say? I'm an overachiever.

Sometimes, the only way to win is to lose.

But I didn't lose it and run screaming across the yard, although I don't get any points for that considering that my knees had just locked and I couldn't seem to move.

I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)

To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible!

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

I have a hunger, for more than food. I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City. I want tongues to tie, and eyes to shine at me like they do at Mad Dog Craddock. Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself, all parched and rough and cracking, but if I played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands. Maybe they could feel at ease with me again, and maybe then, I could feel at east with myself.

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.