Quotes About Overcoming

I believe that nothing stops a bullet like opportunity.

If my one hand stops working, I won't stop living my life. I will start using my other hand. Similarly, if one part of my life goes wrong, I won't stop leading my life.

I try to make sure that my disability never stops me from doing what I want to do.

What person could keep 59 stores open - beside God? It's impossible, it can't be done.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.

America loves a good comeback story!

Sometimes those apartments we lived in weren't finished, sometimes the rooms would be heated by the gas stove, sometimes we would heat our water on hot plates to take baths, and that was very sobering, especially as a child.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

everything is impossible until someone does it.

Working through physical challenges that would put others on the bench just so you can taste the sweetness of winning one more time—that is what separates the good and great from the unstoppable.

When you're tired, sore, and can't do more, that's the time to do more

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.

long months of despondency I could

Timothy Egan

Puertas de fuego (Grijalbo Mondadori, 1999), de Steven Pressfield.

I'm no superhero. I'm not even a consistent "normal.

The War of Art,

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

PARTING ADVICE? "What I would really like is for those of you who have been told that you're learning disabled, or you're not good at math, or that you're terrible at music, or something like that, to seek out unconventional ways of proving that wrong. Believe not only in yourselves, but that there are [ways, tools, methods] powerful enough to make things that look very difficult much easier than you ever imagined.

What's on the other side of fear?" His answer is always, "Nothing.