Spanish Proverb Quotes

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

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

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

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 can have all you can expect and accept.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

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

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

You've got to just be happy with your lot.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

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

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

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

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

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

I take whatever good part comes along.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.