Quotes About Overcoming

I've been through a lot of pain in my life, but I strongly believe that without that pain I would not know love.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The struggle I went through has value.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get out of there? Nobody else can. So it took some time. The struggle made me realize I didn't really want to be 'normal' anymore.

I enjoy flawed heroes that actually struggle, you know, with their own sort of path and are not really aware that they reach that level of being a hero.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

I'd always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark moment consume me, I wouldn't be able to climb out of it. So I became a bit of a shark.

As a young founder in high-stress situations, I often used alcohol to escape facing things. I've struggled with this for a long time, and while I think I've gotten better over time, I believe that this is the last thing preventing me from actualizing my 100 percent conscious self.

I've struggled just as much as anyone else.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

I think that because I struggled and did get very bullied, that definitely made me learn how to be funny and let things roll off and be able to laugh, and I think that has definitely helped me when it comes to being in the public eye with 'Gay of Thrones' and 'Queer Eye.'

Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.

You know, 'people like us,' it involves... it's everybody who has struggled, you know what I'm saying? Everybody who has... who has had a difficult time getting to where they want to be, and now they can look at us as examples of, 'Hey, I can do this because they did it and I see it happening. Maybe I can do it, too.'

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

People need to hear that it doesn't matter if you have everything, you still go through life with your struggles.

The struggles don't define you. It's how you handle them that determines who you are.

It is difficult to not let the circumstances define you when everyone feels they know your personal struggles and agony.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I think struggles are part of our profession. And it's always about overcoming these kind of moments.

Everybody has their struggles.