Sting Quotes

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

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

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

We all do the best with what we have.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

I try to make the best of everything.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

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