Jesse Owens Quotes

Everywhere in the world, you find good things.

I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

At the end of the day, we should all be trying to spread love and positivity, and that's what faith continues to do for me. It keeps me balanced.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

There's not enough good things in the world.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.