Nicholas Sparks Quotes

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Create your future from your future not your past.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.

I have no major regrets. I've made the conscious decision not to look at life that way. I always try to learn something - to take something away from the situation.

You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.