Making the Best of a Bad 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.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Success is ... what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

When things fall apart you sometimes can see more. You might even be able to see how to put things back together.

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.'

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.