Albert Barnes Quotes

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

There is always something to be grateful for.

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

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

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

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

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I have so much to be grateful for, so there is no reason to complain.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

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.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

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

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

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.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I like to look at the glass half full.