Quotes About Overcoming

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you.

I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. I didn't want people to see me as disabled. I wanted to live a life of adventure and stories.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.

There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

This is going to sound shocking, but being born with two club feet was quite a good beginning. If you pull through that, you're very unsentimental. My earliest memories are of really agonising pain.

I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

It's interesting when you talk to someone who has really been through something very, very terrible. They are less likely to talk about it. People who have had a bad day because their soup was cold can talk about their 'suffering' all day long.

I've just been so blessed in my journey. Fat kid from Oklahoma, buddy - Southern accent and Bell's palsy, becoming a broadcaster and hanging around a fickle business for 40 years. You wonder how in the hell that happened. It was somebody's plan.

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.

My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other's half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.

The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves

I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.

Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself).

Every time he tries to fly high, but his memories always hold his broken wings.

The fear of love can be replaced by the love of fear

You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.

Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can't bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.