Thabo Mbeki Quotes

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

You're going to have people that are high on you one day and low on you the next. For me, it's just to stay levelheaded and stay working.

The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren't going your way.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs, it'll be twice as killer.