James Brady Quotes

When things get hard you've got to run with it, and when things get good you run with it.

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.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that's what I'm all about.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I will always find a way to find a positive from things.

The way I look at it is I try to take advantage of every opportunity I've got.

It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.

I am accustomed to making the most out of my opportunities.

I have two choices: Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.

I try to make the most of the opportunities I am presented with.