Albert Brooks Quotes

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It's something that's really stuck with me.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I'm an opportunist.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.

If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

Every 'no' I ever received was an inch closer to a 'yes.'

You make choices and sometimes they're good and sometimes they backfire. The most important thing is to be brave, forgive yourself when you do something stupid, and allow yourself to move on.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.