Quotes About Resilience

Over a long time, I've honestly had enough of people saying Arsenal's defence is not good enough.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an actor,' 'You are not so and so's daughter.' I was even told, 'You are not a big, marketable name.'

I don't mind someone saying I'm not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you're faking an injury.

It's my music. If it's not good enough, then that's how it will be.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

That's something that drives me on - wanting to prove people wrong. Because the amount of people who have told me, 'no, you're not good enough.' A lot of people fall at that hurdle. But I just kept getting up and looking for that one person who said yes.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

At the end of the day, I'm still an African-American woman in a male-dominated industry, so sometimes you have to deal with people not taking your ideas seriously. But I look at it as, I'd rather have adversities in something that I love than doing something that I hate or where I am not interested.

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

I'm not interested in nationality. Players are neither English, French, or any nationality. They are not young or old. They are stronger or not strong.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

No matter what, God is on my side. I'm not perfect, but I'm not the worst, either.

I think that's when people get the most disappointed. Things don't go as perfect as they want it to go and they feel like they've done everything up to that point to prepare for it and that's just life. That's how it is. Everything's not perfect.

I'm not perfect, believe me.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

My life is not perfect.

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

I'm not perfect, but I do my best.

I know I'm not perfect.

Life is not perfect.