Quotes About Overcoming

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.

I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow

When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.

She wished all her memories could be of the good times, but the bad times kept coming back to haunt her.

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.

U trenutcima kad život dotakne dno, možeš u?initi samo dvije stvari: 1) slomiti se, izgubiti nadu i odbiti po?i dalje te ostati ležati potrbuške na tlu mlate?i šakama i nogama ili 2) smijati se. - Mjesto zvano Ovdje

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.

It's the moment you think you can't, that you can

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept.

I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'

People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

I am able to mentally block out mistakes.

It's mentally hard. There are times when you're set back again, and you don't know what to do.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting.

When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.