Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

If the opportunities are a little limited, then you've got to try to find a way to make something happen the best way you can.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.

Whatever the language, I will make the best of the opportunities coming my way.

I am always ready for anything.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

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

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

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

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.