Quotes About Overcoming

Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God. When a man resteth upon himself, he easily slippeth away unto human comforts. But a true lover of Christ, and a diligent seeker after virtue, falleth not back upon those comforts, nor seeketh such sweetness as may be tasted and handled, but desireth rather hard exercises, and to undertake severe labours for Christ.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

to be weak is not so miserable; but to be weaker than our task.

A lot of people, when they are expected to do great things they fold, but you have got to find a way to navigate it.

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

I broke my neck.

You learn more from the negative things.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

You can never really ignore negative comments. There will always be some comments that will hurt you.

Most of my career was negative.

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers.

You just take the negatives and learn to make a positive out of it.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it.

If you dwell on your negativity you can never move on.

There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.

My head is filled with things I think I should be doing or should've done already. I slow down because I doubt myself or I get anxious or have a bout of depression. Then I have to build my confidence back up, and once that happens, then I power through until the next time.