Daily Inspiration Quote by Art Linkletter

Linkletter’s line is a pep talk with a steel core: it takes the messy, random reality of life and hands you one lever you can actually pull. The sentence pivots on a sly shift of agency. “Things turn out best” sounds like fate, the kind of comforting fog people hide in. Then he snaps it back: the “people who make the best” aren’t lucky, they’re active. The double use of “best” is doing rhetorical work, too, narrowing the distance between outcome and attitude until they almost collapse into the same thing.

The subtext is classic mid-century American pragmatism, packaged for mass consumption. Linkletter made a career translating everyday chaos into digestible wisdom on radio and TV, where optimism wasn’t just a mood but a format. In that world, resilience had to be simple, repeatable, and non-accusatory. This line avoids blaming the victim while still refusing helplessness. It doesn’t claim you can control what happens; it claims you can control what you do with it, which is a gentler, more believable promise.

There’s also an ideological whisper in the background: adapt, don’t indict. “The way things turn out” stays conveniently vague, letting the quote work for a bad breakup or a structural injustice. That’s why it travels so well-and why it can feel incomplete. It’s excellent advice for surviving circumstance; it’s less interested in changing the circumstances that keep turning out badly in the first place.