Making the Best of What You Have Quotes

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

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.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

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.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

You are only given so much talent and it is up to you what you do with it.

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

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

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.