Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

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

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

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

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

There is always something to be grateful for.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

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.

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

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

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

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

I think we always need to see the positive.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude!