Overcoming Quotes

“What was once ordeal is ordeal no more.”

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

“The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.”

“I want to be remembered as a guy who had a lot of bad things happen to him in his life, and he turned it all around.”

“For a guy who was so abused as a kid, I've come out pretty well.”

“I've had a lot of challenges in my life, and I've always found a way to overcome them.”

“I have a speech impediment because I lost 85 percent of my hearing.”

“I was a shy, quiet kid. I was the last person you'd think would be a bodybuilder.”

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.”

“People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are driven by hate and fear cannot.”

“My whole life, I've been told I wouldn't be anything. And I made myself something.”

“The storm is over now.”

“El miedo es solo una barrera mental que debemos aprender a derribar.”

“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”

“I'm a guy who has been through a lot. I've been stabbed. I've been in a lot of altercations. But I've always been a guy who has come back.”

“Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”

“I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.”

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”

“My life is proof that you can be born with a deformity and still be a rock star.”

“I had to overcome the stereotypes that fencing was a white man’s sport.”