Quotes About Overcoming

Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.

As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: 'I will rise above my station.'

The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he'd ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.

People looking down, looking down, don't think a guy like my stature can be an All-Star. And every night I try to step out there and prove them otherwise.

That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle - having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!

My life from the railway track to Mount Everest has been one of struggle. Bachendri Pal and Tata Steel believed in me at a time when I couldn't even walk so I'm very grateful to them.

I've been overlooked and slighted every step of the way. I think that brings out the best in me.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it... Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.

Dion, "A Sicker Fall River Eases Its Pain By Getting High," Fall River Herald-News, October 4, 2015.

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breastThe little tyrant of his fields withstood;Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")

God knows some days we all feel like losers.

Most causes of ignorance can be overcome, if people are willing to learn. Nothing, however, can overcome the toxic confluence of arrogance, narcissism, and cynicism that Americans now wear like full suit of armor against the efforts of experts and professionals.

Unhappy me," quoth she, "and will't not stand? Come, let me rub and chafe it with my hand. Perhaps the silly worm is laboured sore And wearièd that it can do no more.

recovered completely from the gunshot. She

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel