Simon Mignolet Quotes

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

When life is hard, you have to change.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

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

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.