Mark Zupan Quotes

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself.

A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.

My father being incarcerated for 25 years, 26 years, so I had a rough past, but me moving to Atlanta, I just thought that changed my whole identity - my thinking.

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.

I've learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become!

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?