Forgive Being Wrong

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
--Thomas Sowell

Topics of Discussion

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

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Govern Myself

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.”
--Michel de Montaigne

Lost Your Mind

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
--Anton Chekhov

Hang by a Hair

“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope Nor Fear

“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
--Anatole France

No Reduction

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
--Maya Angelou

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Make Me Happy

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
--Groucho Marx

Point of View

“Man is affected, not by events, but by the view he takes of them.”
--Epictetus

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