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.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
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.
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
When all that hate energy was focused on me, it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in, it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you, it will kill you.
If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
