Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

Pressure's what you make of it.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

My light shines when things get really tough.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as well laugh.

I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

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

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

Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.

In the darkest of times, the most fulfilling thing in the world is finding the light.

I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.

Pressure brings the best out of people, or it can bring the worst out. It's just how you use it.