Quotes About Resilience

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

We want to be better players than we do a pest, but you have to find something to do coming into the League.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.

Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

People ask me how I sang the role of the 'Phantom' 1,700 times. And I say that it's down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.

If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.

My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.

I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

I was going through a very bad phase when 'Kyunki... Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi... ' happened. I was just not getting any work.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

There was a phase where nothing was going right, and the thought crossed my mind that what is going to happen. Since I had no Plan B, I was sure from the beginning that I love acting and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, so I had to be ready to struggle.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

Struggle is always very demoralising. It's not a romantic phase in anybody's life. It's very difficult. What it does is, it brings out your creativity in different way.

I went through that phase in my life where everything I did wrong was displayed into the public and all over national TV, so I went through a part of my life where I was afraid to do things because I didn't want to make a mistake.