Clarence Thomas Quotes

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.