Quotes About Overcoming

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.

Well, I have definitely had a very intense life and upbringing to say the least. I did have a beautiful young mom who loved me as much as she could but I still had to deal with all forms of abuse and hardships.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

I've been through emotional and financial ups and downs. But I enlarge the positive and avoid negative people.

You have to take all the ups and downs that come your way like a pinch of salt. Just leave everything behind. Forgive and forget.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

Life's been a rollercoaster for me, but I think we can all agree on enduring ups and downs. I've yet to meet a person who hasn't gone through something major in their life.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

People in life have those issues - ups and downs - and I'm just a trailblazer to show whatever you do, you always get up. No matter how far you fall, you always get up.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.