A Quote by Charles M. Schulz

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

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Being Cards Cards You're Dealt Dealt Dog How Just Means Play Sometimes Sometimes I Wonder Stand Whatever Wonder

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Charles M. Schulz
American - Cartoonist
November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Randy Pausch

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

Randy Pausch

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

Randy Pausch

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

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

John C. Maxwell

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Randy Pausch

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Milton H. Erickson

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

Diane Chamberlain

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Les Brown

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

Anna Brackett

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Gore Vidal

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Pharrell Williams

It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.