Bright Side Quotes

• The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimistic, Positive Thinking, Years

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• When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Light, Giving, Looks

  "Fictional character: Lead Singer Crucifee". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Don't Give Up on ObamaCare Yet, Republicans" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 28, 2013.

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• If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

  Christina Dodd

  Sides, Dull, Polish

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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• Always look on the bright side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Positive Attitude, Positivity, Good As It Gets

  Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Shadow, Faces

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• I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

  Thomas Hood

  Long, Optimism, Looks

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.16

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• No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

  Zig Ziglar

  Optimism, Sides, Eyesight

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  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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• I just look at the high and bright side of things

  LL Cool J

  Looks, Sides

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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• Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.

  Zig Ziglar

  Looks, Matter, Sides

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• Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Unbearable, Sides

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• You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Sides, Looks, Ifs

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• If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Needs, Dull, Sides

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• I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

  Bart Cummings

  Sports, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  "Bart Cummings was to horse racing what Sir Donald Bradman was to cricket" by Scott Heinrich, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2015.

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• I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

  Scott Frank

  Death, Suicide, Numbers

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• Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

  William Goldman

  Adventure, People, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sides, Capable

  "Papal attraction" by Douglas Coupland, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2006.

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• What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heart, Offering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• I try to look on the bright side, but it really hurts my eyes.

  Dana Gould

  Hurt, Eye, Trying

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• It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

  Maria Sharapova

  Games, Being Positive, Way

  "Tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals why she wants more women to take up the sport". www.mirror.co.uk. June 17, 2010.

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• Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Looks, Sides

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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