Eunice Kennedy Shriver Quotes

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

I don't mind what happens.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

I don't care about losses anymore.

My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

Sometimes the game does not go for you, no matter how much you try, but I do what I can and leave other people to their opinions on how I played.

I'm not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

I can't worry about match too much. There's nothing I can do.