Quotes About Overcoming

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my working visa in Canada. I remember that I collected bottles of mineral water and sold them to earn extra money.

And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I'm sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.

That's the good part of an injury, it strengthens you in many ways.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

I'm always getting doubled; I just have to find ways to beat it. Can't use that as an excuse. Still got to get to the quarterback someway, somehow.

In every decision, there's two ways you can go. To quit, to stop, or to let it beat you. Or you can beat it.

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.

Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.