Lefty Gomez Quotes

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

You're going to have your struggles every now and then, but you've just got to always keep it in perspective and try to have a good time.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

You never judge a day by the weather!

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.