A Quote by Milton H. Erickson

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

Milton H. Erickson

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Cards Dealt Determine Effect How Play Them

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Milton H. Erickson
American - Psychiatrist
December 5, 1901 - March 25, 1980

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

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

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

Diane Chamberlain

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

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.