Quotes About Overcoming

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you

Someday I'll be living in a big old city And all you're ever gonna be is mean Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?

The haters just got to hate so just shake it of.

Abject terror at one's dire surroundings is oft mitigated by strong drink, I find.

The problem isn't that I've hit rock bottom. The problem is that I haven't.

We can be trapped by our past and be unable to see what God has ahead for us when we don't understand how to deal with trauma. We need to understand very clearly that God's purposes for us are always greater than our problems. If we let Him, the Holy Spirit will come alongside and carry the problems that would bury us. But it all takes place through the bitter waters of healing.

In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.

I tore both of my ACLs. I broke my right patella. I tore my left pec, all within about a 2 1/2-year span.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

I've always been a horrible public speaker. If I had to give a presentation, I would cry.

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20 years to life in prison. I overcame those things, those obstacles, because I listened and I obeyed that higher power that was speaking to me at the crucial moments in my life when it really counted.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this much, so we should take a break now' were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.

The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

The NCAA game, the first one that I was on, I was rated a 46 with 37 speed. It was a slap in the face. I knew deep down in my heart I was better than a 46.

I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

We all go through difficult spells.

I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.