Top 98 Hand Dealt Quotes
#1. The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. But you see, just because we've been ... dealt a certain hand ... it doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above- to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. to try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.
Stephenie Meyer
#4. True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them.
Darynda Jones
#5. I've been thrown into a turbulent triangle, but even though I have deep feelings for Shiray doesn't mean my feelings will disappear for Melanie immediately. Fate has really dealt me a cruel hand of cards.
B. Truly
#6. Life isn't about getting what we want. It's about turning the crappy cards we're dealt into a winning hand,
R.K. Ryals
#8. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
John Waters
#9. You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
Lindsey O'Connor
#10. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
#11. Respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
Colleen Hoover
#12. Whatever hand life has dealt you, seeing it positively will always make it a winning one!
Stephen Richards
#13. Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.
Judith Orloff
#14. You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
Jack Gantos
#15. I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.
Therese De Lisieux
#16. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#17. I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand ... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
W.C. Fields
#18. No, I mean it. You don't look good."
"This from a guy who has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-
Cassandra Clare
#19. Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.
Christine Ha
#20. each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.
Kati Marton
#21. Loss, once it's become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It's solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.
William Kent Krueger
#22. Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
Louise Erdrich
#23. Life may deal you a bad hand or take away a good hand you were already dealt. The way you play the hand is how your life is defined. Just like in poker you can end up winning no matter how bad the cards are you have.
Benjamin Bayani
#24. So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?
George W. Bush
#25. It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.
Regina Brett
#26. If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
Phil Jackson
#27. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.
Timothy Ferriss
#28. Fang snorted in disbelief. On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?
James Patterson
#29. We are dealt the hand we're meant to have ,and we're forced to deal with it
Bec Botefuhr
#30. As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.
Josh Billings
#31. You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#32. Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#33. 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
#34. Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
Thomas Sowell
#35. We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#36. Poor guy, she thought with a shudder. Clearly he had no idea the crappy hand he'd been dealt. If she had to choose between being an angel and a dog, she'd choose the dog. They, at least, were respectable Bianka of Lasyter
Gena Showalter
#37. I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
Maeve Binchy
#38. Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.
Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.
Michael Flynn
#39. and two, success is often started by dumb luck, so play the hand that's dealt you and play it hard.
Harry Schuhmacher
#40. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#41. Some folk are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.
Eleanor Catton
#42. It was the horror of someone who'd been dealt a winning hand, had bet her life on the game, and then proceeded (deliberately?) to lose.
Marie Rutkoski
#43. But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.
Tana French
#44. I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
Maeve Binchy
#45. You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.
James Brady
#46. We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
John Piper
#47. That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In
Randy Pausch
#48. I want to be normal." "Jesus Christ. You might as well want to be taller. Normal wasn't the hand you were dealt. You and I, we're not normal. That's not a choice we have.
C.D. Reiss
#49. You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#50. It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#51. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.
Drew Karpyshyn
#52. 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
#53. Our system of justice should reflect an understanding that any of us could have been dealt a very different hand in life. In fact, it seems immoral not to recognize just how much luck is involved in morality itself.
Sam Harris
#54. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
Jamie Lynn Spears
#55. He can't bear it. I've sat there with him and there is nothing I can say to the guy, nothing that is going to make it any better. He's been dealt the shittiest hand of cards you can imagine.
Jojo Moyes
#56. Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.
Kate Morton
#57. None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.
Steve Alten
#58. But when you're dealt a shit hand, then you play that fucker for all you're worth.
Sydney Landon
#59. There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
Jeff Greenfield
#60. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#61. The hand that you are dealt should only be played by you.
Joyce Fields
#62. We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
Levon Helm
#63. Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.
Francis S. Collins
#64. We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
Maeve Binchy
#65. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.
Jeaniene Frost
#66. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
Colleen Houck
#67. Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa
Michael Punke
#68. I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
Barbara Feldon
#69. Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.
Michael Punke
#70. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.
Sylvia Boorstein
#71. You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.
Derek Hough
#72. I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
#73. What I know is the product of the hand I have been dealt and how I have reacted to that hand
Kazeem Olalekan
#74. When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
John Legend
#75. Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt.
The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met.
Darren Shan
#76. I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
Jonathan Davis
#77. The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as ... haggis ... bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
Alexander McQueen
#78. Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.
Alex Gaskarth
#79. Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
Chuck Knox
#80. Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand.
Sylvia Boorstein
#81. I've never been the kind of man who believed in dreams, Kat. That wasn't the hand I got dealt. So I sure as hell never spent any time chasing them." He swallowed hard and nodded. "But meeting you . . . if I could've dreamed, if I'd have even known what to dream of, it would've been of you.
Laura Kaye
#82. Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
Jeannette Walls
#83. It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
Karen Marie Moning
#84. Just because we've been dealt a certain hand doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of destiny that none of us wanted.
Stephenie Meyer
#85. Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.
Jackson Harris
#86. Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?
J.M. Coetzee
#87. You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Christopher Reeve
#88. Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.
William Gibson
#89. Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.
~Rick Ferreira
Rick Ferreira
#90. Blood family, that's something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to grow up and get more family. The kind you get to pick out yourself.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#91. I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.
Story Musgrave
#92. The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don't think big. They're the kind of folks who are too satisfied with the small hand life's dealt to think that a bigger pot might be out there.
Alexandra Bracken
#93. 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
#95. Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
Clint Eastwood
#96. If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.
Masashi Kishimoto
#97. Life rarely gives what we hope for. We simply make the best of the hand we are dealt.
Renee Sebastian
#98. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.
David Mitchell
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