Chinese Proverb Quotes

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

I'm not really seeing pressure as a negative.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.