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.
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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