Jessi Colter Quotes

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

You've just got to kind of play the hand you're dealt.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

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

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.

Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.

Things happen. You just have to accept it and move on. I get that from my dad. He's a real chilled character.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.

Everybody has their own path and I believe everything happens for a reason and you kind of just rock with it.

For me, you just get on with what's in front of you. It's always been the case.

There will be good times, and there will be bad, but one has to, to the extent possible, take things in one's stride.