Jonathan Aitken Quotes

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

When life is hard, you have to change.

Surviving, that's my plan.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

You have to be resilient.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Bad things happen. Cope!

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.