John Selden Quotes

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Just being away from home was the toughest bit. Battling injuries, going to tournaments, and not even playing was tough, but they're not really big problems.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

Better bow than break.

Hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and wait till the wind stops blowing.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.