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.
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.
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.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.
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.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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