Quotes About Overcoming

I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.

When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Some people look at a loss and it's devastating, it's the end of the world, they go in a downward spiral and they let dirt get piled on them. You just got to brush yourself off. You can't let the dirt bury you.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

We accomplish what we do in our lives in spite of the joy stealers.

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

I didn't think I was scared of heights until I did ITV's 'Splash!' in 2014.

I got used to being pushed down, getting my eye split open and guys talking trash.You have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. That's what I did.

For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

When I was in the hospital, everyone was worried for me, and I realised that I had to do something in my life so that people would stop looking at me with pity. I spoke to my elder brother and my coach about climbing the Everest, and they encouraged me.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.