Quotes About Overcoming

Sometimes walking to the end of the street with my prosthetics feels like running a mile.

I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.

But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like fainting.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.

She dismissed the past – trod upon it and put it out, as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous.

Pity Catherine Martin won't ever see the sun again. The sun's a mattress fire her God died in, Clarice.

Suicide was Bloom's mortal enemy.

There is much honor and more sense in having succeeded with what was left, making something with the damned forty acres and a muddy mule, but you have to be able to see that. No one will tell you.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives.

The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.

nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.

Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

The past was only tolerable if one felt above it, instead of having to stare stupidly at it aware of one's present impotence.

Hidden away among Aschenbach's writings was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work;

?aden nastrój nie mo?e oprze? siÄ™ zwyciÄ™sko biegowi godzin.

Casi todo lo grande que existe, existe como «a pesar de», y adquiere forma pese a la aflicción y a los tormentos, pese a la miseria, al abandono y a la debilidad física, pese al vicio, a la pasión y a mil impedimentos más.

Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!

Cuando hayas identificado ese miedo, ese miedo que es el origen de todos lo demás, entonces ya no tendrás ningún miedo y, por fin, te convertirás en ti misma.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.