Making Lemonade Out Of Lemons Quotes

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Success is ... what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

There are tons of talented people, and they might not even be the most talented, but they're the ones who were so resilient and learned in loss that it was winning by losing.

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

Every crowd has a silver lining.

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.'

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

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

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Lemonade is not just made of lemons. It's barely lemons! It's mostly water and sugar! Life didn't give us that.

I take whatever good part comes along.

The optimist says, ‘this is the best of all possible worlds.’ The pessimist considers that statement for a while and then says, ‘Yes, you are right.’

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I've stayed in the best hotels in the world, but you could put me in prison, and I'd still have fun.

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

I have learned to take things as they come.

It's funny, I do think I've been somewhat overlooked, but I've always viewed that as a challenge. Everyone else seems to get more upset about it than I do.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.