Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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...
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.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.
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.
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
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.
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
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.
Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.