Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Pressure lets you know what kind of person you are.

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

I think a person's true worth is measured during times of failure.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

Inner strength is very important.

I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.