Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.

I choose to focus on the positive.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

I try to see the positive side of things.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn't perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.