Top Events Quotes

History displays the events of time.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

Boys this is only a 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 God...

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.

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.

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.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.