Eleanor Catton Quotes

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called 'Head of the Family.' CBS didn't want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.

There is a good side to every situation.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.