Making the Best of Circumstances Quotes

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Life is about timing.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

It takes skill to benefit from luck.

I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

That late success has happened is OK. I'm grounded. I use my seniority to my advantage. That's helped me out. Who'd have thought? So, yeah. I'm a lucky guy.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.'

Don't fight forces, use them.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.