Quotes About Overcoming

She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future,

There is really no end to life's little humiliations,

But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you." Quentin's

You had to face yourself and deal with your shit, that's how you got somewhere.

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'What are you without fighting?'

Everybody kind of passed up on me; a lot of the teams I played against said I was too short, I wasn't strong enough, I wasn't fast enough, I wasn't physical enough. The only team that believed in me was Utah State.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.