Making the Best of a Difficult Situation Quotes

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

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.

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

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

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.