John MacDonald Quotes

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

'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 .

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.