Randy Pausch Quotes

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Bad things happen. Cope!

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.

Life Sucks,get a helmet

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.