Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.