Overcoming Quotes

We all get smacked around. We got to learn to take the hits, lick our wounds, and move on.

Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love.

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Persistence, Resilience

What's the good of turning back after getting this far?

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Jack London

Smoke Bellew

Christopher Smoke Bellew

Motion, Movement

Purposefulness

Horror? It's ignorance we fear. Since when did truth and knowledge become a horror?

Love knows no boundaries.

It's time to do it for yourself, and you can do it.

Activity is very therapeutic.

A man was not beaten until he was beaten.

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Jack London

Smoke Bellew

Christopher Smoke Bellew

Persistence, Resilience

Struggle

Purposefulness

Will do you do something for me? Will you try to be happy? Will you try not to be scared all the time? Because there's no such thing as a mistake. You get nervous, but... But you sing anyway.

But you know, mind over matter.

Fortitude, Strength Of Mind

You gotta snap out of it.

It's amazing what we value when we're at our lowest.

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Charles Martin

The Mountain Between Us

What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around, and it's like a switch that goes on. And when the switch goes on, I feel like another person, I feel, I don't know, I feel like a... like a truck. Like a machine.

At night our fear is strong, but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again.

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Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

— Hey. Miss Lillian.
— Let's go, baby. I met the manager. Is that the boss?
— I did time for what that motherfucker does every day.
— Baby, can you just handle it till we find you something new? Can you do that?
— Ain't a hard time been invented that I cannot handle.

Every time you get in your car, hell, every time you leave your home you take a risk something bad could happen. But you do it anyway, you know, to make yourself better, to make the world better, sometimes just to have fun.