Quotes About Overcoming

I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels.

I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Sometimes, it's just your turn to go through hard times.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.

I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

Getting beaten is sometimes a good thing. If you're a positive person, you can turn it around and make it into a good thing.

The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I've struggled so much in my life and I've seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into a film.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.