Joan Collins Quotes

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

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

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

No matter the amount of negativity you're presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

I have two choices: Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.

I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.