Ian Williams Quotes

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I've learned to laugh most of the negativity off.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.

I try to make everything a positive, even if it comes off negative.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.