When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Interpretation
The quote encourages a positive response to adversity or challenges.
This quote suggests that when faced with difficulties or unexpected problems, instead of succumbing to negativity or despair, we should seek to make the best of the situation. By transforming a seemingly unfortunate circumstance (a lemon) into something positive (lemonade), we can find opportunities for growth and success despite the initial setback.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in life.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
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