Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Overcoming Challenges Quotes
Inner StrengthOvercoming ChallengesPerseverancePotentialStrength What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
GrowthInnovationOvercoming ChallengesProblem SolvingTranscendence You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
CreativityDedicationInnovationOvercoming ChallengesPerseverance When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
DeterminationDriveOvercoming ChallengesSelf BeliefTalent With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.
Human ConnectionOvercoming ChallengesPassionPositivityRelatability I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.
DeterminationOvercoming ChallengesPerseveranceResilienceSuccess I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
DeterminationOvercoming ChallengesPerseverance If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
MotivationOvercoming ChallengesPerseveranceResilience When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Overcoming ChallengesPerseveranceProfessional GrowthResilience I think struggles are part of our profession. And it's always about overcoming these kind of moments.
AdversityCourageOvercoming ChallengesResponsibilityRisk Assessment The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
DeterminationOvercoming ChallengesPerseverancePersonal GrowthResilience People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.
Overcoming ChallengesPerseveranceSuccess I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
EducationFamily SupportIndependenceOvercoming ChallengesResilience I didn't even walk for graduation - I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn't have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn't write one of them. She literally got me my diploma.
Academic AchievementOvercoming ChallengesPersonal DeterminationRebellionSelf-Motivation In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
InnovationNational IdentityOvercoming ChallengesPositive Outcomes In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
Breaking StereotypesLearning and Self-DiscoveryMentorship and GuidanceMusic and CultureOvercoming Challenges Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.
Community SupportDiscipline And StructureFinding BelongingOvercoming ChallengesSelf-Discovery Through Others Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.