James Beard Quotes

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

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

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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

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

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

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

I just try and make the best of my situation and where I'm at.

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

I take whatever I can get with grace.

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.