Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Whenever you fall pick something up.
Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.
Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
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 God w...
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.
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.
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.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.