Judith McKenna Quotes

I'm going to continue being me through the good times and the bad.

Even though sometimes you don't get the minutes you want to, you've just got to continue to work hard and know that if you keep playing hard and doing the right things, then eventually things will turn your way.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

Racing is a funny industry. One week you can be going terrible and the next week you're on top of the world. So you just keep showing up: I keep working harder to get more opportunities, but what do you do - that's life.

I'm feeling better every race; it's just about staying in it and continuing to push to learn, and I don't doubt it will come.

You try to stay as even-keel as possible; obviously, it's always more difficult when you're going through a tough season.

It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.