Cards You're Dealt Quotes

• Play the hand you're dealt.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Gratitude, Hands, Cards You're Dealt

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• Don’t complain; just work harder.

  Randy Pausch

  Success, Cards You're Dealt, Complaining

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Hands, Cards You're Dealt, Play

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• I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

  Frank Langella

  Cards You're Dealt, Play, Careers

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• Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

  Nora Roberts

  Cards You're Dealt, Play, Mia

  Nora Roberts (2001). “Heaven and Earth”, p.341, Penguin

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• Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

  Mark Zupan

  Cards You're Dealt, Laughing, Too Short

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• 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.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hands, Cards You're Dealt, Play

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• You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Cards You're Dealt, Healthy

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dog, Mean, Cards You're Dealt

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• I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. I'll tell you, being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. But you take the cards you're dealt, and I got better. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Crazy, Eye

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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