Karl Pilkington Quotes

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

I like collecting things, much to my wife's annoyance. I keep mementoes because I'm proud of all the things I've done, but also to remind myself, when I'm having a difficult time at home, that there are always tougher, harder things to get through in life.

There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of.

I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it.

You know what you have achieved and what you have been through.

The one thing I have discovered is that we all have challenges; the challenges vary, but our response to the challenges makes us people we are.

Achievements are often more interesting to you when you look back on them.

I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.