Quotes About Overcoming

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

I had post-traumatic stress from 'Drag Race' a little bit.

There are a couple of things I would have liked to have done, but the producer or director couldn't stretch the concept to allow for my size. Whenever that happens, I just say, 'Deal with it, and try to get the weight off, and get on with your life.'

A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

I strive to destroy fear and judgment that once stifled me.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

I want people to use my story to stand up, be strong-willed and persevere.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I say I am stronger than fear.

Injuries make you stronger.

Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.