The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever...
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our...
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.