Hector Tobar Quotes

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

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

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

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

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

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

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.