Quotes About Overcoming

Beating Madrid is not impossible.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal all that emotion came out.

After you take time off, it can be really scary to do the harder things you used to do, and I personally hate being scared.

But, most of the time it takes people to hit rock bottom for them to start believing in themselves, and start seeking help.

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..

Several authors and editors I respect counseled me not to write the book as quickly as I did; they urged me to wait two or three years and put some distance between me and the expedition in order to gain some crucial perspective. Their advice was sound, but in the end I ignored it - mostly because what happened on the mountain was gnawing my guts out. I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life. It hasn't, of course.

never got used to it. So I was happy as hell when, at 7:10 A.M., he arrived atop the Balcony and gave me the O.K. to continue climbing. One of the first people I passed when I started moving again was Lopsang, kneeling in the snow over a pile of vomit. Ordinarily, he was the strongest member of any group

My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.

Unless he convinced himself that no great life was without its mishaps and its mistakes, he would not be able to return to the arena.

Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ? - Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables. - Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ? - Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

The ultimate dragon is within you. It is your ego clamping you down.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

That which does not break you leaves cause for celebration.

When Life throws you down, stand back up once again.