Quotes About Overcoming

If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean.

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.

It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.

Climbing your personal Everest, do your best to make sure it won't end up being your Calvary.

I survived schizophrenia.

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

My past is ahead of me because I am beyond my past.

Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

For me, cleidocranial dysplasia was something that just spontaneously happened. Nobody in my family has it. It doesn't really hinder me at all. Obviously, I'm still able to do the things I love.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.

I was scared someone would ask me something I didn't know and I'd be on the spot. It's the paranoia of a very shy person. I've gotten over those feelings about interviews for the most part.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.