Nick Vujicic Quotes

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

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

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

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

Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.

Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

If you can't give thanks for what you have, then give thanks for what you have avoided.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.