Betty Ford Quotes

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift. There's no guarantee of tomorrow. And part of my whole philosophy is: this day is too important to live it angry, upset, discouraged or stressed out if plans don't work out. This is life, and I'm going to move on.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

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.