Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.
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.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
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