Sally Field Quotes

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

Something will turn up.

My story shows never say never.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

I try to make the best of everything.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.