Jamie Sives Quotes

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

I am the guy who always gets put in the tough spots. I'm the guy who gets put in these really dark spots, yet somehow, I shine through.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

I think a person's true worth is measured during times of failure.

Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

When you live life like The Nature Boy, there are some monumental highs and, sadly, some unbelievable lows. No matter what happens in his life, he always comes back bigger and better than any of us can even imagine.

That's me: success and failure don't affect me.