A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
We must learn to suffer more.
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.
I'm allergic to losing.
In boxing, some fighters let the occasion get to them and they let their opponent get to them. With me, it's just another day at the office.
Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.
When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Every business will face tough times.
Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.
Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
