Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.