Nicholas Sparks Quotes

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.

Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.