Quotes About Overcoming

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

I want to create or be a platform for people who have been labelled as a victim. I'm not going to be their voice; that's their voice. I want to allow people to voice their life beyond labels.

I've never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn't be the comedian that I am.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Because like so many people who were victimized directly or indirectly by crime, I blamed myself. If I hadn't been able to find closure, I never would have overcome those early developmental challenges.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

There is no substitute for victory.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

One victory, if it kills you off, you were just being propped up. Anyway, you weren't really over.

I spent a lot of my adult life overcoming fear. It was a subject I knew a lot about, and it's one of the most important and most powerful human emotions. Fear is one of the greatest driving forces in the world. So I thought I could go into the horror genre and do things differently and contribute a different point of view.