Quotes About Overcoming

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I still carry it with me that I'm a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Despite being through 100 hurdles, I have stood up for myself.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I have to stop myself sometimes and look at where my life is and pat myself on the back because I'm beating the odds.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

I'm just a genetic freak, but it has never stopped me from doing whatever I want to.

As with all great players, there is no real stopping them. It's trying to contain them.