Michael J. Fox Quotes

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it's negative or positive, you're just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you're not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you've learned how to.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

Bad things happen. Cope!

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?