Quotes About Overcoming

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could banish all the bullshit forever.

when things are tough, and when I don't think I can last another minute, if I just hold on, hold on tight and with everything I got, the shit gets better.

When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

When I'm the underdog everybody says, 'He doesn't have enough to win the fight.' After I won what do you say now?

Don't underestimate this little fat boy.

I am used to people underestimating me.

You are bound to undergo hardships, and it has been no different for me.

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia.

I don't think a lot of people understand the situations I've been involved in and the way I grew up. I took myself away from it and made something out of a bad situation.

It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.