W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

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.

There are ills that happen for good.

When one is having good fortune, one's mind tends to be clear. When one is struck by a disaster, one's mind tends to be muddled.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.

I feel like everything in my life has somehow just fallen into perfect place at the perfect time. I don't know how it happened. It's always like right at the point of my life about to fall apart, and then something amazing happens. I don't know how, but it happens.

I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.