Top 68 Quotes About Dealt The Cards
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#6. It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#7. 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
#8. When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.
Stu Ungar
#9. we play the cards we've been dealt - as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says - based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.
Susan Meissner
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.
Mark Zupan
#13. 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
#14. You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
Diane Chamberlain
#15. 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.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#16. Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
Nora Roberts
#17. I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. Not out of kindness or even curiosity, but because I'd happened to be dealt to him, like a playing card in a pack of identical cards.
Sylvia Plath
#18. A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!
Drew Barrymore
#19. It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
Macklemore
#20. People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
Mark Thomas
#21. Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.
GZA
#22. Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.
Jeannette Walls
#23. Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.
Marta Acosta
#24. 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
#25. Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
Gore Vidal
#26. She knew scotch from whiskey, had no trouble counting markers, and almost certainly dealt her cards from the bottom of the deck. She was absolutely shameless. He hadn't had this much fun in years.
Erica Ridley
#27. You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.
Ann Romney
#28. 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
#29. We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#30. 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
#31. Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck.
Terry Blakeman
#35. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.
Timothy Ferriss
#36. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.
Adam Silvera
#37. You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
Milton H. Erickson
#38. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.
David Mitchell
#39. It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.
Malcolm X
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
Jamie Lynn Spears
#43. 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
#44. I've been dealt a fuller set of cards than the ones passed to Lily and Daisy. They're just as strong, if not stronger. I've always been here as extra reinforcement, and however old we become, however gray we are, that won't ever change.
Krista Ritchie
#45. 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
#46. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#47. 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
#48. Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
Julian Baggini
#49. They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#50. Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.
Derek Hough
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win?
Manoj Vaz
#55. Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
Eugene Fitch Ware
#56. 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
#57. It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
Karen Marie Moning
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. No," Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash's shirt. "I don't want this. Didn't want this to happen."
Screams resonated.
Bash continued quietly, "None of us do. That's not up to us. We have to decide what we're going to do with what we're given. Play the cards dealt to us.
Cate Campbell Beatty
#61. 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
#62. Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities.
Paul Isaacs
#63. 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
#64. Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
Max Walker
#66. 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
#67. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
Lawrence Fagg
#68. 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
