Making the Best of a Situation Quotes

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

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

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

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

At the end of the day, what you're able to work on is what comes by you, what sort of floats by you.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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

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.

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