Tom Watson Quotes

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

I don't like to complain.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

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

I don't question things when they're going right.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

I'm just kind of more, like, I'm gonna take every day as it comes and that's gonna be good enough for me.

I'm not someone who moans.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Travelers must be content.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?