Michelle Dockery Quotes

I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.

It's important to look at what you do have, not what you don't. I'm one of those people who wants a good life, so I do my best to snap out of it.

I feel, that I'm only going to get better.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.