John Henry Newman Quotes

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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.

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

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

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

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

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

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

For me, you just get on with what's in front of you. It's always been the case.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

You got to keep your feet on the ground, and it is what it is.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

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

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Make a virtue of necessity.

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