Liz Murray Quotes

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'

Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can, too.

I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.