Events Quotes - Page 2

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

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.

John Homer Miller

When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.

To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Saint Catherine of Siena

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Anonymous

One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Bernie S. Siegel

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Groan and forget it.

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.

William Bolitho

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy the way it affects his self-image.

Bonaro Overstreet

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.

Epictetus

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Boethius

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

J. Kenfield Morley

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine the Great

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Cathy Lee Crosby

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 will help you and you will come out well.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Alberta Flanders

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.

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.

Florynce Kennedy

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

Mignon McLaughlin

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

G.K. Chesterton

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Epictetus

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis de Sales

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.

We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.

Epictetus

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Honoré de Balzac

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

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

Stendhal

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all things though destitute of everything.

James Freeman Clarke

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.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Anonymous

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.

Marcus Aurelius

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

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

Ralph W Sockman

Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Anonymous

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

Chinese Proverb

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.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.

Anonymous

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.

Harvey Oxenhorn

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