Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

Life moves forward, and you have to deal with whatever it throws at you.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

I doubted myself for a long time... I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.