Frank Wedekind Quotes

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

When life hands you melons, eat them.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

In chaos there is opportunity

I think I've always been very good at taking advantage of the opportunities that have been given to me, because I didn't have many. Once I got one, I grabbed it with two hands.

All my challenges have become opportunities.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

You've just got to kind of play the hand you're dealt.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.