Hand You Were Dealt Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.

David Mitchell

#7. Life rarely gives what we hope for. We simply make the best of the hand we are dealt.

Renee Sebastian

#8. If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.

Masashi Kishimoto

#9. 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

#10. Play the hand you're dealt.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#11. 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

#12. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#13. 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

#14. I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

Story Musgrave

#15. 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

#16. Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.
~Rick Ferreira

Rick Ferreira

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

Timothy Ferriss

#22. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.

Jeaniene Frost

#23. 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

#24. What I know is the product of the hand I have been dealt and how I have reacted to that hand

Kazeem Olalekan

#25. 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.

#26. You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.

Derek Hough

#27. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.

Sylvia Boorstein

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa

Michael Punke

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. The hand that you are dealt should only be played by you.

Joyce Fields

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

Randy Pausch

#38. 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

#39. But when you're dealt a shit hand, then you play that fucker for all you're worth.

Sydney Landon

#40. 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