Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.