Making the Best of Situations Quotes

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

Whatever opportunity I get, to make sure I get better, I need to take advantage of that.

Every time I got opportunities, I did something with it.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

I kinda live where I find myself.

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it.