Joe Budden Quotes

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

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

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

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.

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

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.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn't perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

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.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

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

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.

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.

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