Antonio Gramsci Quotes

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

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.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

I just deal with what's at hand.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

I do the best with what exists.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.