Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.

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

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

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.

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

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

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.

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

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.