228 quotes found
“Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.”
“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”
“Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.”
“To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.”
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.”
“One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”
“Never despair but if you do work on in despair.”
“Groan and forget it.”
“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”
“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.”
“Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.”
“Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.”
“You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.”
“Boys this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that Go...”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.”
“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”
“True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.”
