Quotes About Overcoming

I was the second guy to submit Jim Miller, so I'm up there in catching guys that have been deemed uncatchable.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left." Tupac Shakur

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant..

In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths.

There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.

They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

There is nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tacks.

A stronghold is a mind-set impregnated with hopelessness that causes the believer to accept as unchangeable something that he/she knows is contrary to the will of God. P. 24

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.

Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

But what I found out, the longer you sit there and feel bad about yourself, the longer you're going to stay depressed.

The first thing you do to get over your depression is open up the curtains, put on some good music, take you a shower, get up, put on a good face, and open the door and go out and see the world. Everything that's kicking you, kick it back.