Imelda Staunton Quotes

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

I love winning. I don't like losing.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness.

Nothing prospers to the end.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

Just because you are getting hurt doesn't mean you can't come back and win.

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

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

I'm a survivor.