Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.