George Bernard Shaw Quotes

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

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

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

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

Political life must be taken as you find it.

I take whatever I can get with grace.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

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

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

I wanted Jordans, but I had to get Rugged Outbacks. I had to take it for what it was worth, but now I'm able to give back and it feels real good.

A win doesn't always come exactly how you want it to, but it's a win nonetheless. And anyone who doesn't think so, I don't even know what to tell them.

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

Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.