Marian Keyes Quotes

More expectation is a healthy thing and something we have to embrace.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

But I try to always have a positive mind about things.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

In my mind I always think positive.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

If I'm in a good headspace, then it doesn't matter which direction things go.

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

Ya gotta think positive.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area.

I sort of have to have a positive outlook.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is

I always believe things are going to work out.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

The most important thing is to stay positive.

You are doing better than you think you are.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.