Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

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 don't look at myself as suffering.

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

I like lows because you can only go up from there.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

When you're doing well, a lot of people will recognise it, and when you're not doing well it's the same. It is about how you deal with it and control your mentality.

A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.