Top 39 Quotes About Cards You're Dealt
#1. 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
#2. I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.
Frank Langella
#3. 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
#4. You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.
Margot Kidder
#5. Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.
Marta Acosta
#6. You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#7. It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#8. It's not so much about the cards you're dealt; it's a whole lot more about whether you play them well, or play them at all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.
Mark Zupan
#10. Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
Nora Roberts
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.
Timothy Ferriss
#14. There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#15. 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
#16. You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
Mitchell Reiss
#17. You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
Diane Chamberlain
#18. There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.
Cheryl Strayed
#19. The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.
Nora Roberts
#20. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl Strayed
#21. Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.
Jeannette Walls
#22. You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.
Ann Romney
#23. Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#24. I trust that you'll find your way, and whether you succeed or not isn't significantly important. What damns a man lies in the choices he makes, not in the cards he's been dealt.
Yvonne Von Innes
#25. You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck.
Terry Blakeman
#27. You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew Barrymore
#28. The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
Anthony Holden
#29. Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.
Anurag Shourie
#30. The heroes pop out at you, impossibly vivid, colorful as playing cards but all from different decks, a jumble of incompatible suits and denominations dealt out for an Alice in Wonderland game.
Austin Grossman
#31. It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.
Tichina Arnold
#33. Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win?
Manoj Vaz
#34. 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
#35. You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
Milton H. Erickson
#36. 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
#37. Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.
Brandon Sanderson
#38. You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.
Derek Hough
#39. Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles