Elizabeth Smart Quotes

Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

I even feel grateful for the failures.

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.