Quotes About Overcoming

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. —Marianne Williamson

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

I don't want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I've got a fantastic life. I'm not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but the bullies made me stronger.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

My friends like to remind me that I have relatively weak fingers. Aerobic strength and general endurance have come easy, but finger strength has always been my biggest weakness.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.

Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

With Masvidal, I dropped him and it's the first time I'd ever dropped anyone in my life. I kind of started to turn the corner after that, and it was just a realization that if my hands were a weakness, it was only because I didn't believe in them. I had the talent to do it.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.

You have to be able to bounce back and deal with disappointment, failure and weaknesses, and a lot of that happens behind the scenes for teams that are very successful.

The injuries and subsequent incidents inspired me to do something. I converted my weakness into my strength and made it my weapon.