Amy Purdy Quotes

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

I've been given a platform with the UFC, so I might as well share my story.

Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

I believe my past is my strength.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.