Quotes

Manish

  1. "Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College." - Joe Paterno

  2. "I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad." - Richarlison

  3. "I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'" - Michael Ball

  4. "Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have." - Rod Lurie

  5. "A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is." - Nancy Kress

  6. "It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive." - Barry Mann

  7. "What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul." - Billy Graham

  8. "My mom was the strongest woman I know." - DeAngelo Williams

  9. "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett

  10. "My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico." - Andy Ruiz Jr.

  11. "Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that." - Mary L. Trump

  12. "Our country is one of the youngest in the world. Our youngsters need to be told inspirational stories." - Sudha Kongara

  13. "Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion." - Tony Wilson

  14. "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

  15. "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." - Harvey Weinstein

  16. "Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning." - Tyler Shaw

  17. "Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  18. "We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us." - Barbara Boxer

  19. "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." - Bill Gates

  20. "I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa." - Donald Evans

  21. "I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am." - Terry Wogan

  22. "Somewhere it was written that October 18th is my birthday, and some people flew to Georgia to wish me! They came to my college, spoke to my professor, found out where I lived, and they were at my doorstep! I was shocked!" - Sai Pallavi

  23. "I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso." - Khalid

  24. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  25. "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." - Erich Fromm

  26. "I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do." - Nina Agdal

  27. "I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid." - Tyler, The Creator

  28. "I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  29. "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  30. "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi

  31. "Belief creates the actual fact." - William James

  32. "I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific." - Mitch Hedberg

  33. "You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher." - Joan Cusack

  34. "God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful." - Henri Nouwen

  35. "We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable." - Saba Qamar

  36. "There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles

  37. "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  38. "I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday." - Mary H.K. Choi

  39. "You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it." - Angelique Kerber

  40. "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." - Colin Powell

  41. "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God." - Armstrong Williams

  42. "Just because it is Christmas doesn't mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up." - Kate Garraway

  43. "I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows." - Scott Weiland

  44. "Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity." - Charles Spurgeon

  45. "'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain." - Mason Ramsey

  46. "Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!" - Tyra Banks

  47. "A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered." - Adrian McKinty

  48. "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough." - Richard M. DeVos

  49. "In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year." - Julian Baggini

  50. "I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!" - Phillip Phillips

  51. "Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God." - Radhanath Swami

  52. "Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans." - Tim Walberg

  53. "My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything." - Willam Belli

  54. "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." - Muhammad Iqbal

  55. "I always wanted to be a mom." - Kate Hudson

  56. "When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office." - Peter Billingsley

  57. "On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend." - Eliot Sumner

  58. "I'm not going to fearmonger to win an election. I'm going to focus on the positive opportunities we have for a bright future for all of our families, where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive." - Stacey Abrams

  59. "I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street." - Zoe Bell

  60. "The research says that being successful doesn't automatically make you happier, but being happier - being more positive - makes you more successful." - Shawn Achor

  61. "Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand." - Karl Marx

  62. "I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids." - Marcus Samuelsson

  63. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." - Jesus Christ

  64. "If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions." - Lawrence Wright

  65. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

  66. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

  67. "When I was younger I wish there had been more opportunities to just go out and enjoy myself. So, now that I am in a privileged position I want to try and be a positive influence if I can." - Micah Richards

  68. "I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands." - Gina Gershon

  69. "This has nothing to do with ego. It is solely about my religion and me being a devout Christian. I chose my ring name because I regard myself as A Son Of God." - Andre Ward

  70. "I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers." - Miriam Margolyes

  71. "If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion." - Emile Durkheim

  72. "Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms." - Damien Hirst

  73. "It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives." - Monica Hesse

  74. "Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'" - Elif Batuman

  75. "Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof." - Joel Osteen

  76. "And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected." - Chris Christie

  77. "Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." - Brian Tracy

  78. "The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God." - Ellen G. White

  79. "My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done." - Buck Owens

  80. "When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree." - Bill Cosby

  81. "My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife." - Stephanie Cutter

  82. "I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person." - Flume

  83. "The negative is just as important as the positive." - Ellsworth Kelly

  84. "All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way." - Sam Walton

  85. "I've done yoga, and it's fun, but I'm not the kind of person that can wake up and do it every morning. It's like, I have to be in the mood." - Lily-Rose Depp

  86. "The secret of success is sincerity." - Jean Giraudoux

  87. "I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies." - Lucas Grabeel

  88. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  89. "Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing." - Kurt Busch

  90. "I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches." - Aaron Neville

  91. "When you're a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died." - Ali Wong

  92. "Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!" - Charlamagne tha God

  93. "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass

  94. "I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success." - Nick Saban

  95. "I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album." - Tanya Tucker

  96. "The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." - Ogden Nash

  97. "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." - Ambrose Bierce

  98. "I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  99. "I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor." - Shailene Woodley

  100. "My mom has always been beside me, always telling me what's right and what's not, guiding me through it all, keeping me away from bad company and from bad habits." - Karan Patel

  101. "We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity." - Logan Browning

  102. "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'" - Will Rogers

  103. "I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

  104. "I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers." - Mother Angelica

  105. "The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa." - Max Heindel

  106. "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote

  107. "Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success." - Shawn Achor

  108. "Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking." - Abbie Cornish

  109. "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." - Jewel

  110. "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." - Golda Meir

  111. "Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization." - Naguib Mahfouz

  112. "I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson." - Whitley Strieber

  113. "I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most." - Will Rothhaar

  114. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  115. "I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa." - Candice Swanepoel

  116. "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

  117. "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher

  118. "I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district." - Lucille Roybal-Allard

  119. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  120. "I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society." - Kerry Washington

  121. "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State." - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  122. "My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me." - A Boogie wit da Hoodie

  123. "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." - Mary C. Jones

  124. "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears." - Helen Keller

  125. "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson

  126. "Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order." - Ellen G. White

  127. "Create each day anew." - Morihei Ueshiba

  128. "Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want." - John Waters

  129. "Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research." - Kierston Wareing

  130. "God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family." - Coy Bowles

  131. "Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches." - Dolly Parton

  132. "I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too." - Larry Hagman

  133. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  134. "It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down." - Mark McKinnon

  135. "I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!" - Eric Stonestreet

  136. "Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world." - Camryn Manheim

  137. "I am a free-spirited mom." - Kendra Wilkinson

  138. "What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes." - Olympia Snowe

  139. "Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." - B. C. Forbes

  140. "A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion." - Mahatma Gandhi

  141. "My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice." - Banks

  142. "What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned." - Laverne Cox

  143. "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." - George Carlin

  144. "The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa." - Max Heindel

  145. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - James M. Barrie

  146. "When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive." - Peter Billingsley

  147. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act." - Robert Jackson

  148. "When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story." - Prince Royce

  149. "At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes." - Desiigner

  150. "In Atlanta, my mom came and came downstairs and we were talking like behind the crowd. People from the crowd saw me and started running towards me, asking for pictures and stuff. This girl asked for a picture, and after she got it, she passed out." - Lil Mosey

  151. "Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs." - Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  152. "My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  153. "My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing." - Christina Aguilera

  154. "Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It's not the Jewish blessing, it's the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it 'cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts." - Kenneth Copeland

  155. "I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER." - Kerry King

  156. "Oh, I'm up at 6:00 A.M. every morning because I have a lot to do. Plenty. I work out probably at, like, 8:00. I gotta eat at 6:00 so, therefore, I can workout at 8:00." - Pusha T

  157. "Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  158. "My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea." - Johnny Mathis

  159. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  160. "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms." - John B. S. Haldane

  161. "Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?" - Fulton J. Sheen

  162. "I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea." - Michael Eisner

  163. "The first thing I do after I wake up is a morning meditation. It's just as I awake and before I open my eyes. It's where I'm feeding my gratitude and the love in my heart and opening my heart. A good morning meditation is key. It lasts about 10 to 15 minutes. Then I get out of bed." - Tony Gonzalez

  164. "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you." - Samuel Goldwyn

  165. "First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful." - Barry Manilow

  166. "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." - Mary C. Jones

  167. "Success is more difficult to handle than failure." - Ravi Zacharias

  168. "For me, coming up, the first I had ever heard of basketball? It was from my mom. She was a really good player back in her day, and even played college ball at Kentucky State. And then she went on to become a coach and an AD after that - so she always stayed real close to the game, and kept it a part of her life." - Bradley Beal

  169. "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are." - Billy Graham

  170. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  171. "No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas." - Malaika Arora Khan

  172. "Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages." - Niall Ferguson

  173. "That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about." - Alan King

  174. "So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way." - Chantal Sutherland

  175. "In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge." - Anthony Levandowski

  176. "Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys." - Melissa Ordway

  177. "All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way." - Sam Walton

  178. "My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman." - Iman

  179. "When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task." - George Soros

  180. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  181. "One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics." - Lin-Manuel Miranda

  182. "People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?" - Agnes Martin

  183. "Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better." - Stefon Diggs

  184. "For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress." - Rachel Riley

  185. "Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on." - Paula Abdul

  186. "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden

  187. "Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time." - Tove Jansson

  188. "I try to be positive, and from 'Individual'... which was an angry record. I got a lot of mail from people pouring out their feelings, saying that they could really relate to certain topics that I touched upon. When I read that, it lets know that there are people out there that are people out there who are going through the same things." - Chuck Schuldiner

  189. "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush." - John Gibbon

  190. "My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu." - Janet Mock

  191. "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope

  192. "I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving." - Wylie Dufresne

  193. "People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" - Nhat Hanh

  194. "Nature is the art of God." - Dante Alighieri

  195. "Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  196. "People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too." - Jim Valvano

  197. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

  198. "I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history." - Canelo Alvarez

  199. "My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference." - Claire Saffitz

  200. "When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb." - Gene Tierney

  201. "My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written." - Michael Dirda

  202. "Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for." - Henry Samueli

  203. "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't." - Morrissey

  204. "Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it." - Larry the Cable Guy

  205. "I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am." - Vijay

  206. "Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure." - Mel Gibson

  207. "Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other." - Marvin Sapp

  208. "What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble." - Arthur Laffer

  209. "I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that." - Drake Milligan

  210. "If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem." - Michael Berryman

  211. "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox

  212. "International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports." - Ash Sarkar

  213. "I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide." - Aleister Black

  214. "My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band." - Travis Barker

  215. "The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence." - John Cornyn

  216. "Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know." - Sylvie Guillem

  217. "Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well." - Nikki Sixx

  218. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

  219. "You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics." - Joe Budden

  220. "I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family." - Matt Walsh

  221. "You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines." - Barry Manilow

  222. "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." - B. R. Ambedkar

  223. "True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life." - Maximillian Degenerez

  224. "All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction." - Richard P. Feynman

  225. "Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well." - Ajith Kumar

  226. "I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what." - David Goggins

  227. "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

  228. "I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition." - Stephen Hawking

  229. "They succeed, because they think they can." - Virgil

  230. "My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense." - Spencer Dinwiddie

  231. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  232. "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  233. "There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice." - Karol G

  234. "In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble." - Eva Longoria

  235. "A man with God is always in the majority." - John Knox

  236. "My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old." - Ari Aster

  237. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  238. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  239. "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." - Mary Kay Ash

  240. "I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas." - Logan Mankins

  241. "For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day." - Mercedes Schlapp

  242. "I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work." - Andrew O'Hagan

  243. "As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie." - Austin Aries

  244. "I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff." - Christina Milian

  245. "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness." - William Blake

  246. "Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation." - Randy Forbes

  247. "I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'." - Lonny Price

  248. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  249. "Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment." - Madonna Ciccone

  250. "Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman." - Malala Yousafzai

  251. "I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person." - Zoe Quinn

  252. "I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing." - Jay Rock

  253. "Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story." - Joan Lingard

  254. "In the morning, I might have fruit or maybe oatmeal at home, or a bagel with coffee." - Karrueche Tran

  255. "I have two great examples of a father. My dad is honestly my hero and sets the bar high for how a man should treat a woman. My stepmother is a caring, genuine and supportive woman. My mom is a spunky strong woman with a huge heart. And my sister is just a pure angel. There is a lot of love in my family." - Kaitlyn Bristowe

  256. "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song." - Pope John Paul II

  257. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  258. "We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like." - Honor Harger

  259. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  260. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  261. "I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback." - Misty Copeland

  262. "Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu

  263. "When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist." - Marina Abramovic

  264. "Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  265. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

  266. "To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule." - John James Audubon

  267. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  268. "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

  269. "There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs." - Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  270. "Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  271. "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine." - Rita Dove

  272. "I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." - Faith Hill

  273. "You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness." - Anthony Carmona

  274. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

  275. "Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning." - Samuel Butler

  276. "I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies." - Mo Rocca

  277. "I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year." - Tom Brady

  278. "I didn't expect all of this success to come so quickly." - Bianca Andreescu

  279. "My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her." - Loni Anderson

  280. "No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate." - Matt Cameron

  281. "Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it." - Lindsey Wixson

  282. "We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day." - Lacey Chabert

  283. "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm." - Kurt Vonnegut

  284. "A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles." - Jenson Button

  285. "It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men." - Colman Domingo

  286. "We have to keep calm and stick together; that's the key to success." - Sergio Ramos

  287. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  288. "His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do." - Maurice Ashley

  289. "And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track." - Demetri Martin

  290. "Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them." - John C. Maxwell

  291. "I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium." - Carrie Mae Weems

  292. "God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia." - Russell Crowe

  293. "God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  294. "My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'" - Gabby Douglas

  295. "YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy." - Lindsey Stirling

  296. "My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy." - Alec Baldwin

  297. "The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart." - Henry Ward Beecher

  298. "The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once." - E. Joseph Cossman

  299. "Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught." - Eric Ries

  300. "We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life." - Paul Washer

  301. "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." - Lucy Larcom

  302. "One should not encourage division on the basis of religion, region, caste, or creed if one wants India to truly rise as one of the greatest nations of the world." - Smriti Irani

  303. "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me." - Diego Maradona

  304. "You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased." - Daniel Kahneman

  305. "Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people." - Rick Nielsen

  306. "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating." - Iain Duncan Smith

  307. "Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice." - Gilbert Baker

  308. "For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted." - John C. Maxwell

  309. "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle." - D. H. Lawrence

  310. "I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year." - John Lanchester

  311. "Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science." - Anthony Fauci

  312. "Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed." - John Galsworthy

  313. "In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good." - Jack Harbaugh

  314. "I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch." - Carlos Mencia

  315. "I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go." - Tracy Chapman

  316. "I just thank God for all of the blessings." - James Brown

  317. "Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight." - Pope Benedict XVI

  318. "I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family." - Hilary Duff

  319. "I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions." - Amber Riley

  320. "I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!" - Anne Murray

  321. "My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom." - Miley Cyrus

  322. "What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man." - Edmund Burke

  323. "Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine." - Damaris Phillips

  324. "I eat a huge breakfast every morning. I do a lot of work at the gym, a lot of power-lifting, a lot of cardio, and I study wrestling tapes." - Sheamus

  325. "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." - Les Brown

  326. "I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa." - Louis Theroux

  327. "You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community." - Israel Folau

  328. "Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world." - Charlie Sykes

  329. "My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong." - Booboo Stewart

  330. "I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose." - Joely Fisher

  331. "My parents, specially my mom wanted me to pursue B.Com honours during my undergrad." - Bhuvan Bam

  332. "The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team." - Herm Edwards

  333. "The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation." - Karen Robards

  334. "I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated." - Chris Benz

  335. "To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel." - Mick Fleetwood

  336. "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." - Bill Gates

  337. "I have a lot of respect for people who really work on their life - they've got this great apartment and a good personality, they write the thank-you cards and bake birthday cakes. That's who I wish I was. When I see people cultivate their own life like that, I admire it." - Weyes Blood

  338. "We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning." - Henry Ward Beecher

  339. "I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year." - Tom Brady

  340. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  341. "I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that." - Katie Ledecky

  342. "Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

  343. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

  344. "Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology." - Reza Aslan

  345. "My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits." - Amy Chua

  346. "I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song." - Zooey Deschanel

  347. "I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life." - Byron Katie

  348. "The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing." - Uzodinma Iweala

  349. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin

  350. "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is." - Albert Camus

  351. "All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you." - Lady Gaga

  352. "Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  353. "I keep a small - a very, very, very small circle. It's just me and my mom and my sister. And maybe Chris Paul." - Donovan Mitchell

  354. "Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square." - Keith O'Brien

  355. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  356. "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows." - Ben Stein

  357. "The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'" - Viola Davis

  358. "Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  359. "What I've tried to do is focus on either my job or being a mom, and just go really hard on that so that I can feel like I'm doing my best job at both roles." - Brianna Keilar

  360. "The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus." - James Lankford

  361. "When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn." - Aidan Gillen

  362. "Pancakes are simple. They're diner food. They're what you make on a Sunday morning with the kids. Crepes are fancy. They're French-bistro food. They're what you make once a week after your Parisian vacation because you want to relive some pleasant memories." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  363. "I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler." - Mark Cuban

  364. "Numerous things that go on such as the way Houston interacts with my family; we're treated in a first-class way. They helped us when my wife lost our baby daughter in a miscarriage. They help with anything you ask of them because they are a very caring organization with positive attitudes about its players." - Johnathan Joseph

  365. "Although I take the medication, which has made a huge impact on my life in a positive way, still, honestly, when I'm a bit sick is when I'm at my most creative." - Beth Hart

  366. "It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it." - Baker Mayfield

  367. "Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather." - Kristina McMorris

  368. "When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times." - Kate Leth

  369. "I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion." - Yogi Adityanath

  370. "My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was." - Alessandro Michele

  371. "Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor." - Alistair Horne

  372. "I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard." - Tim Tebow

  373. "My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another." - Art Linkletter

  374. "I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion." - Alissa White-Gluz

  375. "Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle." - Jay Shetty

  376. "When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever." - Garry Marshall

  377. "As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground - a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads - when they could relax with their families instead." - Neil Warnock

  378. "Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  379. "Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow." - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

  380. "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." - George Eliot

  381. "India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." - Mark Twain

  382. "I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!" - Becky G

  383. "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." - Larry King

  384. "I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that." - Michael Trevino

  385. "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven." - Alphonse de Lamartine

  386. "If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance." - Kelley O'Hara

  387. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

  388. "My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'" - Tony Oller

  389. "A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand." - Benny Fine

  390. "Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience." - Lee Siegel

  391. "Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well." - Ajith Kumar

  392. "Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds." - Hema Malini

  393. "I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist. My dad is a jazz drummer... I've been very fortunate in that I've had parents who supported and encouraged me and haven't really questioned what I'm doing or asked me to question it." - Ari Aster

  394. "We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens." - Jay Parini

  395. "You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it." - Curtis Stone

  396. "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation." - Ezra Taft Benson

  397. "Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on." - Chris Frantz

  398. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  399. "I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning." - T. J. Thyne

  400. "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." - Mahatma Gandhi

  401. "Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well." - Muhammad Iqbal

  402. "You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe." - Joyce Meyer

  403. "Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized." - Jidenna

  404. "What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist." - Rebecca Ferguson

  405. "I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy." - Deshaun Watson

  406. "When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all." - Shawn Amos

  407. "Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it." - Alessandro Michele

  408. "I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house." - Josie Bissett

  409. "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery

  410. "I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up." - Kirsten Dunst

  411. "Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning." - Paul Merton

  412. "I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  413. "The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary." - Kendrick Lamar

  414. "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face." - Ronald Reagan

  415. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck

  416. "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family." - Adriana Trigiani

  417. "You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community." - Israel Folau

  418. "Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability." - Opal Tometi

  419. "When my mom travelled, she would bring me basketball tapes." - Masai Ujiri

  420. "To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom." - Jose Bergamin

  421. "Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind." - James Martineau

  422. "The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values." - Ben Shapiro

  423. "I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am." - Hilarie Burton

  424. "God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family." - Joel Osteen

  425. "The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." - Lynn Lavner

  426. "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." - Galileo Galilei

  427. "'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear." - Tom Petty

  428. "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time." - Richard Dawkins

  429. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  430. "Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God." - Billy Graham

  431. "It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God." - Michael Leunig

  432. "I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm a sister and a best friend." - Tia Mowry

  433. "All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them." - Said Nursi

  434. "I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it." - Claire Danes

  435. "Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world." - Camryn Manheim

  436. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell

  437. "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain

  438. "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance." - Morgan Freeman

  439. "The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things." - Thomas S. Monson

  440. "Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him." - Mike McCready

  441. "I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!" - Jesse McCartney

  442. "I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'" - Paul Walker

  443. "I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive." - Jimmy Fallon

  444. "YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy." - Lindsey Stirling

  445. "I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  446. "My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that." - Gigi Hadid

  447. "Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart." - Josh McDowell

  448. "In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live." - Ethel Waters

  449. "What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be lengthened by the enzyme we called telomerase, which keeps the telomeres from wearing down. After I found that out, I went home and put on Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA,' which was just out, and I danced and danced and danced." - Carol W. Greider

  450. "I can't resist South Indian cuisine, particularly what is prepared at home. My mom is my favourite cook. She can cook a variety of cuisines. I savour her cooking at home, and she's undoubtedly the best." - Deepika Padukone

  451. "United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'" - Antonio Guterres

  452. "When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist." - Marina Abramovic

  453. "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James

  454. "I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'" - Tig Notaro

  455. "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God." - Euclid

  456. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

  457. "Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind." - Steven Crowder

  458. "I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun." - John John Florence

  459. "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

  460. "My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that." - Gigi Hadid

  461. "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar." - Susan Orlean

  462. "Christmas in the Ramsay house is always a noisy chaotic time, but I love it!" - Tana Ramsay

  463. "Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was." - William Shatner

  464. "Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me." - Stevie Nicks

  465. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  466. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  467. "While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun." - Jean Chatzky

  468. "People like to be around those who give off positive energy." - Erin Heatherton

  469. "The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening." - Wallace Stevens

  470. "Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy." - Franz Werfel

  471. "Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past." - Homaro Cantu

  472. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  473. "My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies." - Hannah Simone

  474. "As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!" - Angela Kinsey

  475. "Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop." - Lucy Carless

  476. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  477. "I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's." - Kate Hudson

  478. "My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that." - Gemma Arterton

  479. "Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive." - Ving Rhames

  480. "I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'" - Hari Nef

  481. "To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way." - David Schwimmer

  482. "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

  483. "What we do is wake up every morning and think about how we get more music out to people; how do we get better music? We breathe, eat, and sleep music." - Daniel Ek

  484. "People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining." - Tyler Oakley

  485. "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith." - Mahatma Gandhi

  486. "I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!" - Lily Aldridge

  487. "I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them." - Frances Farmer

  488. "There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives." - Deborah Norville

  489. "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true." - Blaise Pascal

  490. "If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron." - Lee Trevino

  491. "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

  492. "When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas." - Dee Rees

  493. "It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day." - Marilu Henner

  494. "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work." - Patrick Swayze

  495. "The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound." - Naveen Tewari

  496. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  497. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  498. "But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful." - Elizabeth Edwards

  499. "I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great." - Susie Wolff

  500. "I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing." - Carly Schroeder

  501. "At my company, we have 300 employees spread across offices all over the world, and I send them all a voicemail each morning with a message from me about why our work is important and a reminder about one of our values. I call myself our company's 'chief spiritual officer.'" - Ken Blanchard

  502. "If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve." - Bindi Irwin

  503. "If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man." - Derrick Henry

  504. "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms." - John B. S. Haldane

  505. "On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else." - George Clooney

  506. "God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - H. L. Mencken

  507. "When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee." - Charlie Puth

  508. "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." - Steve Harvey

  509. "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success." - Barack Obama

  510. "Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house." - Malik Yoba

  511. "Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone." - Jason Bateman

  512. "Why be a man when you can be a success?" - Bertolt Brecht

  513. "Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal." - Craig Robinson

  514. "I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection." - Kyle Mooney

  515. "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

  516. "At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming." - Nicholas Lea

  517. "There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God." - Aldous Huxley

  518. "You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie." - Lydia Lunch

  519. "Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." - Jimmy Cannon

  520. "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." - Lonzo Ball

  521. "I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt." - Charli D'Amelio

  522. "In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence." - Isaac Newton

  523. "There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out." - Ashton Kutcher

  524. "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Theodore Roosevelt

  525. "I don't really understand this negative or positive role thing. A role is a role." - Jim Sarbh

  526. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." - Tommy Douglas

  527. "Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution." - Edwin Louis Cole

  528. "In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas." - J. R. Moehringer

  529. "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." - Soledad O'Brien

  530. "As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind." - John Rampton

  531. "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God." - Charles Stanley

  532. "Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives." - Curtis Stone

  533. "You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good." - Don Nelson

  534. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  535. "In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient." - Sue Monk Kidd

  536. "I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him." - Jonny Bairstow

  537. "I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day." - Bradley Whitford

  538. "God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

  539. "Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." - Ed McMahon

  540. "On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous." - James Callis

  541. "I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough." - Dwyane Wade

  542. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  543. "I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive." - Eddie Izzard

  544. "Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand." - Joseph D. Pistone

  545. "Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy." - Shawn Achor

  546. "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." - John Wesley

  547. "I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym." - Ehud Olmert

  548. "Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be." - Jay Samit

  549. "I rely on breakfast to give me a kickstart of energy in the morning, so I choose my foods accordingly." - Mikaela Shiffrin

  550. "If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun." - Rebecca Mader

  551. "Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it." - Larry the Cable Guy

  552. "My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle." - Amy Tan

  553. "I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice." - Sophia Myles

  554. "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford

  555. "I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in." - Rachel Stevens

  556. "Years ago, I came out with a Christmas album called 'Tinsel Time'. It was just a pet project for me, but it ended up going to number one on Amazon!" - Jen Lilley

  557. "I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." - Faith Hill

  558. "I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free." - Iggy Pop

  559. "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." - Zig Ziglar

  560. "My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles." - Christie Brinkley

  561. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  562. "To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts." - Scott Brooks

  563. "I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on." - Sam Heughan

  564. "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" - Maria Montessori

  565. "I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'" - Kevin-Prince Boateng

  566. "The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party." - Jonathan Hickman

  567. "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." - Anatole France

  568. "Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals." - John H. Johnson

  569. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  570. "Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills." - Sheryl Sandberg

  571. "If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light." - Brian O'Driscoll

  572. "I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different." - Vivienne Westwood

  573. "Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that." - Chetan Bhagat

  574. "Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday." - Lance Stroll

  575. "Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake." - Amanda Knox

  576. "We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'" - Vicki Lawrence

  577. "Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget." - Taraji P. Henson

  578. "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." - Mahatma Gandhi

  579. "When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent." - Matthew Quick

  580. "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." - Thomas Huxley

  581. "Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be." - R. Kelly

  582. "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience." - Saint Ambrose

  583. "When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up." - Diana Gabaldon

  584. "I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde." - Rita Ora

  585. "If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side." - Srikumar Rao

  586. "We host Thanksgiving in my mother's apartment in New York. I don't know if you've seen many New York apartment kitchens, but they are not known for spaciousness." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  587. "I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality." - Matt Haig

  588. "Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such." - B. B. King

  589. "I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles." - Marianne Vos

  590. "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." - J. D. Salinger

  591. "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox

  592. "I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so." - Zig Ziglar

  593. "My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist." - Christina Grimmie

  594. "We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families. There are people that are in dangerous areas, putting their lives on the line to keep our country free, and I think that's something we should all celebrate every day." - Guy Fieri

  595. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

  596. "The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy." - Domenico Dolce

  597. "Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him." - Fred Armisen

  598. "Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it." - Michael Leunig

  599. "My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom." - Grace Potter

  600. "I believe in the Devil. I believe there's a God, too. I met God at church - the Catholic Church." - Trippie Redd

  601. "Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies." - George Whitefield

  602. "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating." - Iain Duncan Smith

  603. "The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad." - Eric Johnson

  604. "My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition." - Syd

  605. "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away." - Anna Pavlova

  606. "On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers." - Bobby Ghosh

  607. "The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes." - Os Guinness

  608. "Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?" - G-Eazy

  609. "I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates." - Jodie Whittaker

  610. "My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it." - Alex Lifeson

  611. "My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag." - Joe Frazier

  612. "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." - Harvey Weinstein

  613. "I'm not really into religion." - Harry Dean Stanton

  614. "The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  615. "The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian." - Trevor Phillips

  616. "I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion." - John F. Kelly

  617. "Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change." - Bruce Lipton

  618. "The most important thing is to stay positive." - Saku Koivu

  619. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  620. "My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong." - Booboo Stewart

  621. "One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency." - Lynn Coady

  622. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  623. "Religion is just mind control." - George Carlin

  624. "I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister." - Trey Parker

  625. "You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Marston

  626. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  627. "Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics." - Sean Combs

  628. "Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy." - DMX

  629. "Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know." - Jamie Foxx

  630. "I'm living by the beach so it's nice to wake up in the morning and see the beach." - Rhian Brewster

  631. "Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not." - Octavia E. Butler

  632. "All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction." - Richard P. Feynman

  633. "My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in." - Petra Collins

  634. "Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again." - Ravi Zacharias

  635. "I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in my life, not in terms of celebration but in terms of retrospect." - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

  636. "I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too." - Samantha Bee

  637. "Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too." - Josh Turner

  638. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey

  639. "I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise." - Jessica Savitch

  640. "I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill." - Allen Ginsberg

  641. "My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties." - Adam F. Goldberg

  642. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  643. "A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris

  644. "One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'" - Julie Burchill

  645. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  646. "I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in." - Liz Phair

  647. "You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale." - Marillyn Hewson

  648. "More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material." - Charles Eastman

  649. "I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing." - Grace Potter

  650. "Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people." - Joyce Meyer

  651. "I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine." - Dave Rubin

  652. "I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy." - Drake Bell

  653. "Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success." - Virat Kohli

  654. "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you." - Jay-Z

  655. "Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it." - Paul Giamatti

  656. "For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry." - Malaika Arora Khan

  657. "I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise." - Martin Garrix

  658. "My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!" - Pom Klementieff

  659. "The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard." - Glennon Doyle Melton

  660. "I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future." - Hillary Clinton

  661. "It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career." - Santigold

  662. "I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me." - Dimitar Berbatov

  663. "I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it." - Claire Danes

  664. "I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son." - Nancy Dubuc

  665. "I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, 'Let's not do karate this year. Let's not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.'" - Sarah Shahi

  666. "What I strive for is that everywhere I go, I leave a positive impact." - Clarence Seedorf

  667. "I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way." - Amy Purdy

  668. "I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am." - Akshay Kumar

  669. "What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there." - Derek Jeter

  670. "There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver." - Corey Taylor

  671. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis

  672. "Mothers are the necessity of invention." - Bill Watterson

  673. "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - Lewis Thomas

  674. "I'm a once-a-week grocery shopper; I get everything I need for the week, and then in the morning, I have my breakfast, pack three snacks, my lunch, and drinks to stay hydrated in a little cooler. I always have a snack on hand in case I get hungry throughout the day. I love my little cooler!" - Christen Press

  675. "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page

  676. "The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't." - Greg Louganis

  677. "My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson." - Joely Fisher

  678. "There is a lot I need to thank God for, everyday. But I think I am blessed because I have a very loving, understanding and supporting family." - Neha Dhupia

  679. "I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different." - Moeen Ali

  680. "New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages." - Lawrence Kudlow

  681. "There is a myth that Rahman sir only works at night. He works through the day and night, so it depends what time slot you end up working with him. Besides nights, I have sung for him in the morning and at noon, too. I think he's the first composer to work at night, and that's why it's spoken about so much." - Chinmayi

  682. "I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday." - Dennis Quaid

  683. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

  684. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

  685. "Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it." - Lindsey Wixson

  686. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  687. "When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting." - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  688. "I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house." - Sebastian Arcelus

  689. "Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." - Richard Nelson Bolles

  690. "We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure." - Shirin Ebadi

  691. "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." - Jimmy Carter

  692. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  693. "The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion." - Lord Hailsham

  694. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi

  695. "When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb." - Gene Tierney

  696. "Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather." - Kristina McMorris

  697. "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  698. "Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too." - Jeb Bush

  699. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  700. "Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future." - Mattie Stepanek

  701. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  702. "Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that." - Richard Dawkins

  703. "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." - Les Brown

  704. "My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them." - Christopher Hitchens

  705. "Both my parents were Democrats. My dad was definitely more of a fiscally conservative traditional Democrat. My mom was more of a feminist Camelot Democrat. They definitely had an idealistic view of life as it should be in the United States. And they had a sense that government had to have some hand in making people's lives better." - Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

  706. "I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time." - Garrison Keillor

  707. "All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people." - David Robinson

  708. "Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory." - Jocko Willink

  709. "Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come." - Dwayne Johnson

  710. "Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know." - Catherine Hicks

  711. "My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing." - David Ortiz

  712. "'Carpe Diem' is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone." - Matt Czuchry

  713. "I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup." - Shilpa Shetty

  714. "I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold." - John Legend

  715. "Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree." - T. S. Eliot

  716. "A lot of peoples' parents aren't very supportive; my mom is super supportive." - Ravyn Lenae

  717. "Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know." - Emile Hirsch

  718. "There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me." - Cobie Smulders

  719. "Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century." - Adam Davidson

  720. "Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

  721. "I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path." - Taya Kyle

  722. "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation." - Robert Teeter

  723. "The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance." - Kylian Mbappe

  724. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle Onassis

  725. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

  726. "The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits." - Lewis Howes

  727. "The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married." - Isaac Brock

  728. "I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful." - Michael Shermer

  729. "Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'" - David Ignatius

  730. "I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'" - Paul Walker

  731. "'Carpe Diem' is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone." - Matt Czuchry

  732. "I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete." - Alex Morgan

  733. "For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest." - Patti Scialfa

  734. "My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." - Phyllis Diller

  735. "There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas." - Jerry Falwell

  736. "I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do." - Gail Kelly

  737. "My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise." - Lauren Jauregui

  738. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  739. "My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways." - Kerri Walsh Jennings

  740. "I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that." - Vanilla Ice

  741. "I have tried to have a really good, positive attitude." - Adam Thielen

  742. "I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever." - Tina Fey

  743. "If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way." - Derrick Rose

  744. "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." - Julia Child

  745. "Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like." - Julian Baggini

  746. "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." - Ambrose Bierce

  747. "You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call." - Wayne Dyer

  748. "We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth." - Charles Stanley

  749. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." - Joyce Brothers

  750. "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God." - Lionel Blue

  751. "I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I've ever done." - Grace VanderWaal

  752. "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  753. "A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  754. "You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch." - George M. Humphrey

  755. "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book." - Joseph Smith, Jr.

  756. "Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement." - Brene Brown

  757. "I am thrilled to support World of Children and its superlative efforts to fund changemakers around the world. It's a great privilege to be associated with an organization that recognizes and funds those individuals really working in the trenches, and I look forward to being part of advancing positive change for children everywhere." - Stephanie March

  758. "Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks." - Michel Onfray

  759. "School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school." - Lili Reinhart

  760. "I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday." - Stanley Druckenmiller

  761. "I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5." - Brad Stevens

  762. "To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past." - Debbie Ford

  763. "No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  764. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  765. "I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either." - Alex Turner

  766. "I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up." - Natalie Cole

  767. "Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." - Edward Dowden

  768. "Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me." - Mindy Kaling

  769. "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" - James Allen

  770. "I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there." - Christina Aguilera

  771. "My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to be feminine, which did not come easy to me. My body was what it was, and I worked it to be a better tennis player." - Martina Navratilova

  772. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  773. "Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice." - Greg Davies

  774. "I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff." - Chaz Bono

  775. "I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it." - Kelli Giddish

  776. "I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one." - Gloria Estefan

  777. "God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure." - Eric Liddell

  778. "Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society." - Pratibha Patil

  779. "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion." - John Maynard Keynes

  780. "My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points." - Margot Kidder

  781. "The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday." - Marcus Samuelsson

  782. "Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  783. "The single most important key to success is to be a good listener." - Kelly Wearstler

  784. "I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success." - Michael Landon

  785. "I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety." - Emma Stone

  786. "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." - Dick Gregory

  787. "There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him." - D. H. Lawrence

  788. "Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it." - Sonam Kapoor

  789. "A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician." - Emma Bonino

  790. "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." - Henry David Thoreau

  791. "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

  792. "I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own." - Khloe Kardashian

  793. "The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm." - George Osborne

  794. "I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday." - Nikki Reed

  795. "One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature." - Greg Graffin

  796. "Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible." - T. D. Jakes

  797. "Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun." - Stephen Spender

  798. "The goals of literature are multifold, but creating nice, positive protagonists that you'd want to grab drinks with or invite home to mom can hardly be considered one of them." - Maria Konnikova

  799. "Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed." - Bill Rancic

  800. "We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases." - George M. Church

  801. "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." - Martina Hingis

  802. "If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers." - George Muller

  803. "If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate." - Martha Beck

  804. "That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity." - Hans Kung

  805. "If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it." - Sundar Pichai

  806. "I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving." - Andrew Zimmern

  807. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." - Ann Landers

  808. "You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure." - Jim Dale

  809. "Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God." - Cyril Cusack

  810. "I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football." - Taylor Kitsch

  811. "I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me." - Gigi Gorgeous

  812. "Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights." - Chris Young

  813. "Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God." - Henri Nouwen

  814. "I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from." - Joyner Lucas

  815. "We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world." - Jim DeMint

  816. "I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great." - Russell Wilson

  817. "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  818. "If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what." - John Lydon

  819. "From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance." - Jenny Zhang

  820. "I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous." - Rachel Khoo

  821. "Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all." - Marco Rubio

  822. "The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right." - Paul Downs Colaizzo

  823. "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  824. "What we think, we become." - Buddha

  825. "I've been fortunate in my life. It hasn't been easy, but there has been a focus on the positive, and it has reverberated. Eventually, the outlook mirrors itself back to you in the friends you have, in the partner that you choose." - Leslie Odom, Jr.

  826. "At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake." - Goran Ivanisevic

  827. "I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it." - Joel Osteen

  828. "I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits." - Lewis Howes

  829. "I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about." - Mary Steenburgen

  830. "There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur

  831. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone

  832. "I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't." - Steve Harvey

  833. "This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide." - Anatoly Karpov

  834. "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh

  835. "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan

  836. "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." - Kevin Hart

  837. "Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world." - Yolanda Hadid

  838. "On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!" - Akshay Kumar

  839. "I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you've done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive." - Andy Biersack

  840. "I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'" - Jim Carrey

  841. "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

  842. "Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone." - Rollo May

  843. "I like to keep my world positive. There's enough negativity kicking around." - Jim Root

  844. "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work." - Leslie Bibb

  845. "The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion." - Nigel Lawson

  846. "My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass." - Jimmy Fallon

  847. "I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!" - Arianna Huffington

  848. "Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." - Corita Kent

  849. "Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments." - Adrian Younge

  850. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi

  851. "Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important." - Elle Macpherson

  852. "Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ." - Haile Selassie

  853. "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked." - Anais Nin

  854. "It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it." - Max Martin

  855. "Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion." - Bill Klem

  856. "My message is that God is a good God." - Joel Osteen

  857. "You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people." - Nadia Comaneci

  858. "To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness." - Cherie Lunghi

  859. "To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication." - Kevin Brownlow

  860. "I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin

  861. "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." - Don Rickles

  862. "The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party." - Jonathan Hickman

  863. "My mom raised me to never have anything control me." - Chris Tucker

  864. "My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'" - Michael Ealy

  865. "Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  866. "Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'" - Jill Scott

  867. "It's a great time to do a show, at Christmas time. People are by and large in a Christmas frame of mind." - Anne Murray

  868. "Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today." - Os Guinness

  869. "I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material." - Michael Sandel

  870. "This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security." - Art Buchwald

  871. "I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York." - Jason Mitchell

  872. "I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything." - Gloria Stuart

  873. "I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing." - Jay Rock

  874. "My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever." - Andy Partridge

  875. "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." - Jesse Ventura

  876. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

  877. "I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life." - Byron Katie

  878. "I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold." - Dan Brown

  879. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  880. "Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God." - Bo Sanchez

  881. "Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public." - Amy Grant

  882. "When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'" - Zach Anner

  883. "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." - Edmond de Goncourt

  884. "I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children." - Keiynan Lonsdale

  885. "To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success." - Henry J. Heinz

  886. "My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better." - DMX

  887. "You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's day and be a positive influence on the world when you're in a position like that." - Christian McCaffrey

  888. "Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers." - Brian McDermott

  889. "How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones." - Catherine Tate

  890. "A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed." - Paul Engle

  891. "Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold." - Robert Kiyosaki

  892. "The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained." - Alexis Carrel

  893. "When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, 'I'm 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I'm going to do this.'" - Sasha Banks

  894. "My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea." - Johnny Mathis

  895. "When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened." - Stephen Hendry

  896. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  897. "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." - Bear Bryant

  898. "There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color." - Jess Row

  899. "The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time." - Lake Bell

  900. "Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me enough knowledge to take the important facts about healthy vending options to my own personal and professional contacts and expand these positive programs wherever we can." - Steve Finley

  901. "I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal." - Emeril Lagasse

  902. "Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning." - Paul Merton

  903. "We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard." - Clive Barker

  904. "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay." - William Cowper

  905. "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day." - Paul Henderson

  906. "However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool." - Joan Collins

  907. "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

  908. "I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older." - Kyle

  909. "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  910. "I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do." - Stephen Hawking

  911. "My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started." - Alyson Hannigan

  912. "All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need." - Harvey Cox

  913. "If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love." - Robbie Fowler

  914. "Every company has messy data, and even the best of AI companies are not fully satisfied with their data. If you have data, it is probably a good idea to get an AI team to have a look at it and give feedback. This can develop into a positive feedback loop for both the IT and AI teams in any company." - Andrew Ng

  915. "I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman." - Jami Attenberg

  916. "I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star." - John Wayne

  917. "In Atlanta, my mom came and came downstairs and we were talking like behind the crowd. People from the crowd saw me and started running towards me, asking for pictures and stuff. This girl asked for a picture, and after she got it, she passed out." - Lil Mosey

  918. "I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city." - Michael Symon

  919. "The secret of success is sincerity." - Jean Giraudoux

  920. "When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday." - Clive Thompson

  921. "Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me enough knowledge to take the important facts about healthy vending options to my own personal and professional contacts and expand these positive programs wherever we can." - Steve Finley

  922. "Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?" - Pippa Middleton

  923. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

  924. "South Park started as a little video Christmas card." - Joel Hodgson

  925. "I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive." - Aly Raisman

  926. "To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers." - Paul Klee

  927. "Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me." - Elvis Presley

  928. "God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people." - Dolly Parton

  929. "Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do." - John Eldredge

  930. "My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again." - Min Jin Lee

  931. "A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys." - Robin Williams

  932. "I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'" - Hari Nef

  933. "Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection." - Eugenio Montale

  934. "At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes." - Desiigner

  935. "I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast." - Summer Sanders

  936. "The research says that being successful doesn't automatically make you happier, but being happier - being more positive - makes you more successful." - Shawn Achor

  937. "As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning." - Kate Reardon

  938. "When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting." - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  939. "We see leaders in social media starting fights. I'm on the other team who likes to inspire, to leave a positive message." - Karol G

  940. "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me." - Ellen Glasgow

  941. "Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always." - Sadio Mane

  942. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  943. "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power." - Alice Walker

  944. "I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field." - Matt Harvey

  945. "Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." - Ed McMahon

  946. "When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist." - Marina Abramovic

  947. "Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977." - J. R. Moehringer

  948. "When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas." - Elias

  949. "I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested." - Grace Slick

  950. "My life is better with every year of living it." - Rachel Maddow

  951. "A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy." - Abhishek Bachchan

  952. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  953. "We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable." - Saba Qamar

  954. "The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'" - Jensen Ackles

  955. "I couldn't believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in a hair salon and my mom looked over at me and I was just sobbing, because something about seeing the rings and hearing the athletes' excitement and just kind of knowing exactly what they were going through." - Tessa Virtue

  956. "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." - Salvador Dali

  957. "Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds." - Hema Malini

  958. "It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period." - Dennis Bergkamp

  959. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  960. "Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear." - Dan Millman

  961. "My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared." - Hailee Steinfeld

  962. "Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in." - Indya Moore

  963. "I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents." - Mariah Carey

  964. "A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  965. "God gave me everything I have." - Ben Harney

  966. "It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies." - Michael Dirda

  967. "I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?" - Melanie Griffith

  968. "Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative." - Donnie Yen

  969. "Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  970. "Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail." - Sheri L. Dew

  971. "I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views." - Ishmael Beah

  972. "When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas." - Emo Philips

  973. "I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more." - Iker Casillas

  974. "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success." - James Cash Penney

  975. "The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification." - J. C. Ryle

  976. "I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results." - LL Cool J

  977. "I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl." - Sandra Bullock

  978. "Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women." - Shari Arison

  979. "Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough

  980. "There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out." - Jay Samit

  981. "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  982. "My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic." - Ato Essandoh

  983. "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive." - Carter Burwell

  984. "The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him." - Charles Stanley

  985. "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." - David Hume

  986. "To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter." - Suharto

  987. "I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale." - Robert H. Schuller

  988. "From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship." - M. Stanton Evans

  989. "People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working." - Elon Musk

  990. "Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today." - Os Guinness

  991. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

  992. "Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from." - Rodney Atkins

  993. "My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass." - Jimmy Fallon

  994. "Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government." - Peter Benenson

  995. "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - e. e. cummings

  996. "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." - Bear Bryant

  997. "I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done." - CM Punk

  998. "The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success." - Jack Canfield

  999. "When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold." - Bernard Arnault

  1000. "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

  1001. "My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That's how I got the name." - Lil Peep

  1002. "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time." - Oswald Chambers

  1003. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

  1004. "I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people." - Bryan Clay

  1005. "More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion." - Alexander Chase

  1006. "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life." - Swami Vivekananda

  1007. "Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  1008. "I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West." - Cupcakke

  1009. "Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success." - Ambrose Bierce

  1010. "Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

  1011. "The undertaking of a new action brings new strength." - Richard L. Evans

  1012. "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing." - Michael Gove

  1013. "Honestly, the All In women's locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involved - Chelsea, Britt, Madison, Jordynne Grace, Brandi Rhodes, Tenille Dashwood, Penelope Ford, Mandy Leon - is we all bring something so different to the table for a common vision." - Tessa Blanchard

  1014. "My daughter learned to say, 'They're not even trying to cover!' before her second birthday." - James Holzhauer

  1015. "I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens." - Imogen Poots

  1016. "For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week." - Jamila Woods

  1017. "By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time." - Sherwin B. Nuland

  1018. "You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people." - Halsey

  1019. "All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them." - Said Nursi

  1020. "God's mercy is fresh and new every morning." - Joyce Meyer

  1021. "United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'" - Antonio Guterres

  1022. "MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it." - John Torode

  1023. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  1024. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  1025. "I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working." - Lesley Gore

  1026. "Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection." - Nell Scovell

  1027. "Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands." - Zig Ziglar

  1028. "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn

  1029. "My parents, specially my mom wanted me to pursue B.Com honours during my undergrad." - Bhuvan Bam

  1030. "Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world." - Mary Garden

  1031. "What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love." - Rajneesh

  1032. "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - e. e. cummings

  1033. "The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction." - Christian de Duve

  1034. "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama

  1035. "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." - John Ruskin

  1036. "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" - Maria Montessori

  1037. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  1038. "A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson." - David Berman

  1039. "Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I'd request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise." - Rituparna Sengupta

  1040. "I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?" - Priyanka Chopra

  1041. "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs

  1042. "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." - Arianna Huffington

  1043. "My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!" - Debby Ryan

  1044. "Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better." - Fernando Alonso

  1045. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  1046. "My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me." - James Corden

  1047. "Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be." - Joel Osteen

  1048. "When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could." - Astro Teller

  1049. "My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico." - Andy Ruiz Jr.

  1050. "I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit." - Chris March

  1051. "I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'" - Stewart Udall

  1052. "My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both." - Lily Collins

  1053. "I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth." - Ram Dass

  1054. "When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted." - Alan King

  1055. "Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls." - William Pennington

  1056. "I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny." - Tim Howard

  1057. "Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'" - Sean Covey

  1058. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  1059. "I've always wanted to be a mom." - Holly Madison

  1060. "There's only one thing I love more than race day: the morning after! The morning after the Marathon, New York catches running fever. The Hudson River bike path on Manhattan's west side was like a traffic jam of joggers on Monday morning. No doubt the great race fires up the endurance athlete in all of us - and it's beautiful." - Stephanie Ruhle

  1061. "I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played." - Dustin Johnson

  1062. "You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale." - Marillyn Hewson

  1063. "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch

  1064. "If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike." - Lydia Lunch

  1065. "I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable." - Tony Bennett

  1066. "It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me." - Brendan Rodgers

  1067. "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." - Ray Kroc

  1068. "There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine." - Nikola Tesla

  1069. "Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." - Henri Nouwen

  1070. "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." - Julia Child

  1071. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  1072. "Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me." - Gene Luen Yang

  1073. "These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over." - Van Morrison

  1074. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  1075. "Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat." - Emma Stone

  1076. "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" - Lyndon B. Johnson

  1077. "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night." - Chanakya

  1078. "Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'" - Richard Corliss

  1079. "Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'" - Anne McClain

  1080. "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else." - Angie Stone

  1081. "Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present." - Janice Dickinson

  1082. "For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning." - Jack Klugman

  1083. "I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up." - Katy B

  1084. "My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'" - Zack Snyder

  1085. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch

  1086. "Al Gore has all of the positive attributes of Bill Clinton but is saddled with none of his negatives. He's a great big teddy bear of a political figure - Teflon coated, road tested, and everyone's nice guy." - Peter Navarro

  1087. "My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'" - Mitchell Trubisky

  1088. "I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." - Marla Gibbs

  1089. "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

  1090. "Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness." - Hannah More

  1091. "The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds." - John Niven

  1092. "It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good." - Shari Arison

  1093. "Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut." - Allison Tolman

  1094. "Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin." - Joseph Prince

  1095. "The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon." - John Astin

  1096. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  1097. "People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive." - Carmen Dell'Orefice

  1098. "The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want." - Chris Pine

  1099. "I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others." - Sudha Murty

  1100. "When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'" - Roy Orbison

  1101. "Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!" - Debby Ryan

  1102. "There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that." - Morgan Wallen

  1103. "You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life." - Kirsten Dunst

  1104. "Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes." - Om Malik

  1105. "I always want to keep my skin clean when I get up in the morning, and I use sunscreen before I go out to the field." - Christen Press

  1106. "As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  1107. "We never considered Christmas a holiday because the budget was really tight, so Christmas was just a usual day for us." - Pia Wurtzbach

  1108. "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." - Jim Rohn

  1109. "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" - James Allen

  1110. "I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who has an eating disorder, and that's why she looks the way she looks." - Lauren Alaina

  1111. "My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds." - Carol Alt

  1112. "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire

  1113. "If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain." - Goldie Hawn

  1114. "I surrounded myself with very positive people who only wanted the best for me. I loved high school as a whole. I consider myself really lucky." - Gigi Gorgeous

  1115. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

  1116. "This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump." - Charles Barkley

  1117. "No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is." - Rush Limbaugh

  1118. "There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team." - Bryan Adams

  1119. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  1120. "I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things." - Tom Green

  1121. "Across Central Virginia, the traditions of Thanksgiving bring us closer together with those we love. We gather with family and close friends, we share memories and laughter, and we give thanks for the profound blessing of living in the United States." - Abigail Spanberger

  1122. "Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe." - Zooey Deschanel

  1123. "I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead." - Susan Orlean

  1124. "God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1125. "I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'" - Luke Bryan

  1126. "The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall." - Judy Smith

  1127. "I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in." - Thundercat

  1128. "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

  1129. "I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write." - Carmen Agra Deedy

  1130. "I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit." - Jerry Garcia

  1131. "I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party." - Kirstie Alley

  1132. "I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom." - Ana Ortiz

  1133. "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - Lewis Thomas

  1134. "Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas." - Lewis Black

  1135. "Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact." - Jens Martin Skibsted

  1136. "My mom wanted me to be like... a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn't tryna be broke." - Lil Mosey

  1137. "For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important." - Aretha Franklin

  1138. "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God." - Lionel Blue

  1139. "Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back." - Mary Daly

  1140. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." - Anne Frank

  1141. "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." - Mahatma Gandhi

  1142. "My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked." - Daryl Hannah

  1143. "The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection." - Donatella Versace

  1144. "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." - Bill Watterson

  1145. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  1146. "I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant." - Queen Latifah

  1147. "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell

  1148. "I always try to work on my birthday." - Rashami Desai

  1149. "My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success." - Coy Bowles

  1150. "Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come." - Regina Brett

  1151. "I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you." - Clint Eastwood

  1152. "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'" - Demetri Martin

  1153. "Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion." - Rajinikanth

  1154. "I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'" - Kevin-Prince Boateng

  1155. "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." - Pat Riley

  1156. "Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me." - Ryan Adams

  1157. "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas." - Ronald Reagan

  1158. "I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning." - Wayne Brady

  1159. "We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong." - Jameela Jamil

  1160. "One should not encourage division on the basis of religion, region, caste, or creed if one wants India to truly rise as one of the greatest nations of the world." - Smriti Irani

  1161. "I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay." - Hal Ashby

  1162. "I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends." - Helen George

  1163. "No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!" - Joyce Meyer

  1164. "I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies." - James Iha

  1165. "You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." - Zig Ziglar

  1166. "The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values." - Ben Shapiro

  1167. "Nothing recedes like success." - Walter Winchell

  1168. "Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I've experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and if you're in the right neighbourhood, every house is decorated with spooky ghosts, spider webs, and jack-o-lanterns." - Rhys Darby

  1169. "I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race." - Barbara Kruger

  1170. "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male." - Julia Child

  1171. "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." - Gertrude Stein

  1172. "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

  1173. "Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977." - J. R. Moehringer

  1174. "Religion's in the heart, not in the knees." - Douglas William Jerrold

  1175. "The genius of Rachel Dolezal's transracial achievement is that it has nearly limitless applications. Rachel is taking 'the power of positive thinking' to a whole new level." - Tom Tancredo

  1176. "We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work." - Kim Raver

  1177. "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle

  1178. "Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude." - Lou Holtz

  1179. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  1180. "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." - Shirley Temple

  1181. "The true success is the person who invented himself." - Al Goldstein

  1182. "I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself." - Virat Kohli

  1183. "One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday." - Michael Buffer

  1184. "My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play." - J. J. Watt

  1185. "My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what." - Mandy Moore

  1186. "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." - B. R. Ambedkar

  1187. "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

  1188. "I surrounded myself with very positive people who only wanted the best for me. I loved high school as a whole. I consider myself really lucky." - Gigi Gorgeous

  1189. "At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure." - Erin Cummings

  1190. "One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking." - Julian Baggini

  1191. "As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then." - Pete Wentz

  1192. "Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other." - Marvin Sapp

  1193. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." - Buddha

  1194. "Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter." - Alber Elbaz

  1195. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire

  1196. "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God." - Pope Francis

  1197. "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten

  1198. "Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew." - Gil Marks

  1199. "I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality." - Srikumar Rao

  1200. "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins

  1201. "For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete's, that was fun. I had my 30th birthday there." - John Waters

  1202. "Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes." - Akon

  1203. "The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other's cartoons." - Paul Dini

  1204. "Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science." - Anthony Fauci

  1205. "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it." - Tricia Helfer

  1206. "Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success." - Ambrose Bierce

  1207. "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head." - Malcolm Mclaren

  1208. "I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option." - Giannis Antetokounmpo

  1209. "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God." - Charles Stanley

  1210. "'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them." - Marc Platt

  1211. "There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties." - Ronnie Coleman

  1212. "He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity." - Maimonides

  1213. "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'" - David Sedaris

  1214. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

  1215. "Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning." - Bonnie Bassler

  1216. "Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before." - Wesley Sneijder

  1217. "I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe." - Sarah Wayne Callies

  1218. "Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them." - Alison Sweeney

  1219. "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever." - Lisa Leslie

  1220. "My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party." - Robert Webb

  1221. "My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue." - Tracee Ellis Ross

  1222. "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." - Phylicia Rashad

  1223. "It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes." - Catherine Oxenberg

  1224. "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." - Tanya Tucker

  1225. "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed." - Nikos Kazantzakis

  1226. "If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?" - Marc Wallice

  1227. "I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family." - Jacob Latimore

  1228. "Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober." - Jamie Lee Curtis

  1229. "To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him." - Saint Basil

  1230. "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths." - Muhammad Ali

  1231. "I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister." - Trey Parker

  1232. "Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!" - Charlamagne tha God

  1233. "It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

  1234. "I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write." - Carmen Agra Deedy

  1235. "Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity." - Chris Van Allsburg

  1236. "Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt." - P. J. O'Rourke

  1237. "The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." - Bennett Cerf

  1238. "Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing." - Enid Nemy

  1239. "I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me." - Laura Haddock

  1240. "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning." - P. J. O'Rourke

  1241. "It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever." - Hannah Simone

  1242. "I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything." - Zoe Bell

  1243. "I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening." - Daryl Hannah

  1244. "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?" - Emma Goldman

  1245. "I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions." - William T. Vollmann

  1246. "Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress." - Shawn Achor

  1247. "I'm African-American. I'd rather follow an African religion. That's my heritage." - 21 Savage

  1248. "I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad." - Jimmy Smits

  1249. "If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more." - Regina Brett

  1250. "I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom." - Kerry Kennedy

  1251. "TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion." - Neil Postman

  1252. "Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living." - Gilbert Parker

  1253. "You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves." - Glenn McGrath

  1254. "Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing." - Ricki Lake

  1255. "The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother." - Dorothy Fields

  1256. "Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night." - Simon Mainwaring

  1257. "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out." - Michael Korda

  1258. "Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth." - May-Britt Moser

  1259. "After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?" - Sara Pascoe

  1260. "Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries." - Said Musa

  1261. "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision." - Ho Chi Minh

  1262. "Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut." - Allison Tolman

  1263. "My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player." - Luke Rockhold

  1264. "God has entrusted me with myself." - Epictetus

  1265. "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter." - Walt Disney

  1266. "I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way." - Matt Bomer

  1267. "Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning." - Rob Sheffield

  1268. "It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone." - Mary Oliver

  1269. "I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge." - Mikhail Bakunin

  1270. "I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it." - Johnny Iuzzini

  1271. "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." - George Orwell

  1272. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  1273. "I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide." - Aleister Black

  1274. "I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips." - Sue Perkins

  1275. "I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23." - Mary Steenburgen

  1276. "I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God." - Andrea Riseborough

  1277. "There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice." - Karol G

  1278. "When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic." - Wesley Clark

  1279. "God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision." - Charles Stanley

  1280. "Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been." - Alan Alda

  1281. "If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'" - Sarah Kay

  1282. "Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end." - Jean Paul

  1283. "Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." - Hans Christian Andersen

  1284. "If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines." - Gary Hamel

  1285. "I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy." - Britney Spears

  1286. "The undertaking of a new action brings new strength." - Richard L. Evans

  1287. "Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget." - Taraji P. Henson

  1288. "I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible." - Harris Faulkner

  1289. "The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that." - John Perkins

  1290. "Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself." - Caroline Ghosn

  1291. "Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him." - Fred Armisen

  1292. "May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast." - Alastair Campbell

  1293. "Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide." - Taiye Selasi

  1294. "Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'" - Annie Dillard

  1295. "Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us." - Lady Gaga

  1296. "What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?" - Delmore Schwartz

  1297. "I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith." - Sayani Gupta

  1298. "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  1299. "The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society." - Noam Chomsky

  1300. "I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'" - John Paul DeJoria

  1301. "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt

  1302. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  1303. "I want people to get positive energy from our music." - Suga

  1304. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley

  1305. "No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what." - Eddie Vedder

  1306. "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you." - Samuel Goldwyn

  1307. "John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer." - Robert Dallek

  1308. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  1309. "Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch." - Malaika Arora Khan

  1310. "On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message." - Stephen Schwartz

  1311. "We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win." - Lzzy Hale

  1312. "My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years." - Nipsey Hussle

  1313. "The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar." - Stevie Nicks

  1314. "I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time." - Barbara Bush

  1315. "I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." - DJ Khaled

  1316. "I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't." - Peter Dinklage

  1317. "When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day." - F. Sionil Jose

  1318. "I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home." - Don Everly

  1319. "The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." - Thomas Carlyle

  1320. "Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time." - Jennifer McMahon

  1321. "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

  1322. "I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing." - Jamie Foxx

  1323. "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

  1324. "My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded." - Caitlyn Jenner

  1325. "On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!" - John Torode

  1326. "I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere." - Bo Sanchez

  1327. "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle." - D. H. Lawrence

  1328. "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  1329. "You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch." - George M. Humphrey

  1330. "I do kind of marvel at my journey. But at the same time, I look back at a lot of the steps, and maybe not every step, but a lot of the steps, and since I was 12 or 13, I look at the people who helped me and the moments that were inspirational to me, and you can recall what my mindset and what my make-up was at that time to try and be the best." - Chris Bosh

  1331. "True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself." - Marcela Valladolid

  1332. "Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact." - Jens Martin Skibsted

  1333. "Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May." - Michael Dirda

  1334. "Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable." - Zubin Mehta

  1335. "I like to be as positive and as peaceful as possible, but reality says, you know, sometimes you get mad, sometimes you get antsy, sometimes you get aggravated." - Musiq Soulchild

  1336. "Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth." - Richard J. Codey

  1337. "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday." - Lawrence Tierney

  1338. "I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend's engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks." - Mona Eltahawy

  1339. "Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction." - Brendon Burchard

  1340. "Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health." - Ric Flair

  1341. "My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies." - Inbar Lavi

  1342. "We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?" - Jennifer Hyman

  1343. "That's my father's theme. Get up in the morning, 'hello, Dad.' 'Get a job, leave the food alone... Who took my car?' America, you young kids, get a job. All that sagging, the clothes hanging behind, that ain't nothing. Get a job. You want to be somebody, get a job." - John Witherspoon

  1344. "I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate." - Elton John

  1345. "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him." - Thomas Hardy

  1346. "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." - Irv Kupcinet

  1347. "God can only do for you what He can do through you." - Eric Butterworth

  1348. "I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal." - Mike McCready

  1349. "I am a very positive person in real life." - Dhanush

  1350. "I was a mama's girl. So when I had to go to Korea without mom, I felt that I had to take care of myself now. I was 14, such a kid. I didn't speak any Korean. I only knew how to say 'hello,' so it really was a new start." - Lisa

  1351. "I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself." - Metro Boomin

  1352. "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young

  1353. "In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was." - Jonás Cuarón

  1354. "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." - Arthur Schopenhauer

  1355. "Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square." - Keith O'Brien

  1356. "I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback." - Alonzo Mourning

  1357. "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." - Pablo Picasso

  1358. "My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust." - Ron Reagan

  1359. "I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments." - Carolyn Murphy

  1360. "My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised." - Peter Capaldi

  1361. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." - Phillip Adams

  1362. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire

  1363. "An honest man's the noblest work of God." - Alexander Pope

  1364. "Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?" - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  1365. "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either." - Tyler Perry

  1366. "There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things." - Saint Basil

  1367. "Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning." - Rick Tumlinson

  1368. "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion." - Albert Einstein

  1369. "When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer." - Rico Nasty

  1370. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  1371. "Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God." - Henri Nouwen

  1372. "For when a child is born the mother also is born again." - Gilbert Parker

  1373. "I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love." - Jordan Fisher

  1374. "I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do." - Blake Farenthold

  1375. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

  1376. "Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive." - Franz Kafka

  1377. "I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God." - Tim Kennedy

  1378. "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." - Phyllis Diller

  1379. "I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that." - Von Miller

  1380. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  1381. "Only person who took me serious was my mom and my sister Rachael." - J.I.D

  1382. "If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem." - Michael Berryman

  1383. "My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up." - Maye Musk

  1384. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  1385. "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." - Wendy Cope

  1386. "You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway." - Cyndi Lauper

  1387. "The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary." - Kendrick Lamar

  1388. "My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life." - Shraddha Kapoor

  1389. "I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant." - Alice Waters

  1390. "I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within." - Saint Augustine

  1391. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  1392. "The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence." - Friedrich Schleiermacher

  1393. "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." - Anais Nin

  1394. "I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me." - Laura Haddock

  1395. "He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game." - David Gower

  1396. "When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life." - Justin Lin

  1397. "I know how to do anything, I'm a mom." - Roseanne Barr

  1398. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  1399. "Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge." - Kevin Spacey

  1400. "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything." - Bede Griffiths

  1401. "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." - Bear Bryant

  1402. "It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine." - William Wyler

  1403. "When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me." - Amy Robach

  1404. "I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas." - Martin Freeman

  1405. "Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I'd request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise." - Rituparna Sengupta

  1406. "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." - Freeman Dyson

  1407. "Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God." - Rick Warren

  1408. "Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion." - Julia Ward Howe

  1409. "I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back." - Trisha Yearwood

  1410. "You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life." - Kirsten Dunst

  1411. "I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems." - Hina Khan

  1412. "Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." - Taylor Caldwell

  1413. "I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years." - Tracey Ullman

  1414. "I like to keep my world positive. There's enough negativity kicking around." - Jim Root

  1415. "I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack." - Jodi Picoult

  1416. "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed." - Herman Cain

  1417. "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there." - Mehmet Oz

  1418. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." - Denis Waitley

  1419. "Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something." - Ralph Marston

  1420. "My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition." - Syd

  1421. "I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino." - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  1422. "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff." - Jonathan Davis

  1423. "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive." - Lee Iacocca

  1424. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts

  1425. "My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business." - Travis Scott

  1426. "I've always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline." - Baker Mayfield

  1427. "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

  1428. "A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of." - Walter Kirn

  1429. "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." - Albert Einstein

  1430. "God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius." - Anna Pavlova

  1431. "Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included." - Alan Mulally

  1432. "Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America." - Glenn Beck

  1433. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

  1434. "They always win who side with God." - Frederick William Faber

  1435. "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha." - Sloane Crosley

  1436. "For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head." - Brittany Snow

  1437. "I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger." - Vijender Singh

  1438. "When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more." - Nick Saban

  1439. "I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous." - Chrissy Teigen

  1440. "That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring - for better or worse, through sickness and health - than the one I had with my now ex-husband." - Mona Eltahawy

  1441. "A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand." - Dierks Bentley

  1442. "The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created." - Alex Tabarrok

  1443. "My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat." - Ben McLemore

  1444. "I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later." - Philip Green

  1445. "Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season." - Daniel Humm

  1446. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  1447. "My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered - she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94." - Emilia Wickstead

  1448. "I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas." - Logan Mankins

  1449. "My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'" - Candace Cameron Bure

  1450. "When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about." - Matisyahu

  1451. "My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom." - Grace Potter

  1452. "Al Gore has all of the positive attributes of Bill Clinton but is saddled with none of his negatives. He's a great big teddy bear of a political figure - Teflon coated, road tested, and everyone's nice guy." - Peter Navarro

  1453. "Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'" - Sophie Turner

  1454. "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." - Anais Nin

  1455. "My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player." - Luke Rockhold

  1456. "Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?" - Andrew W.K.

  1457. "Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water." - Jesse Ventura

  1458. "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." - Charles Dickens

  1459. "Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us." - William Ames

  1460. "You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life." - Alice Dreger

  1461. "Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone." - Ramakrishna

  1462. "In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was." - Jonás Cuarón

  1463. "That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children." - Chelsea Clinton

  1464. "Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature." - Youssef Ziedan

  1465. "God buries His workmen but carries on His work." - Charles Wesley

  1466. "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been." - Bobby Jindal

  1467. "I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community." - Melanne Verveer

  1468. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  1469. "I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." - Douglas Adams

  1470. "When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls." - Michael Huffington

  1471. "Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it." - John Waters

  1472. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  1473. "I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part." - David Cameron

  1474. "Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time." - Lex Luger

  1475. "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows." - Ben Stein

  1476. "I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind." - Thalia

  1477. "When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with." - Goldie Hawn

  1478. "What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love." - Rajneesh

  1479. "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day." - Mickey Rooney

  1480. "For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head." - Brittany Snow

  1481. "You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful." - Naveen Jain

  1482. "Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful." - Gisele Bundchen

  1483. "A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents." - George Packer

  1484. "I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party." - Angelique Kerber

  1485. "After all, God is God because he remembers." - Elie Wiesel

  1486. "As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student." - Kate Brown

  1487. "The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven." - Rick Warren

  1488. "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas." - Johnny Carson

  1489. "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness." - Han Suyin

  1490. "In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source." - Reinhard Bonnke

  1491. "My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time." - Julia Roberts

  1492. "Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday." - O. J. Simpson

  1493. "Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision." - Bill Hybels

  1494. "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." - Arthur Helps

  1495. "I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do." - Dwayne Johnson

  1496. "I've done yoga, and it's fun, but I'm not the kind of person that can wake up and do it every morning. It's like, I have to be in the mood." - Lily-Rose Depp

  1497. "Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers." - Marillyn Hewson

  1498. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." - Martin Luther

  1499. "On Saturday morning, I like to get up early and go out - TV is banned!" - Debra Stephenson

  1500. "Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'" - Sophie Turner

  1501. "I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that." - Diane Kruger

  1502. "My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative." - Queen Latifah

  1503. "What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive." - Jay Alan Sekulow

  1504. "You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful." - Naveen Jain

  1505. "We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish." - Jennifer Granholm

  1506. "I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." - Joyce Meyer

  1507. "My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix." - Ian Gomez

  1508. "No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!" - Dolly Parton

  1509. "Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" - Karen Armstrong

  1510. "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

  1511. "My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others." - Matthew Perry

  1512. "God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us." - Charles Stanley

  1513. "I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God." - Laurence Fishburne

  1514. "I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas." - Hillary Scott

  1515. "When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought." - Joel Osteen

  1516. "Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success." - David Goggins

  1517. "I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven." - Annaleigh Ashford

  1518. "I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium." - Carrie Mae Weems

  1519. "Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time." - Lex Luger

  1520. "My mom used to call me Joshy Boucher. I watched 'The Waterboy' so much, my mom started calling me Joshy Boucher. True story." - Josh Allen

  1521. "My Mom and my Pops liked Tupac a lot." - NLE Choppa

  1522. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

  1523. "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom." - Sydney Madwed

  1524. "Our locker room is so positive. We are all focused on the same objectives, and that's equality for women." - Naomi

  1525. "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen." - Robert Staughton Lynd

  1526. "The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record." - KRS-One

  1527. "Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein." - John Lanchester

  1528. "I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!" - Vince Clarke

  1529. "I think we're pretty spiritual people, the band in general. We're not a bunch of hippies or anything like that, but we like to work together and work with people. We believe that positive energy is pretty necessary in life, although it's not always easy to maintain." - John Gourley

  1530. "In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good." - Jane Yolen

  1531. "Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  1532. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  1533. "There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion." - Cat Stevens

  1534. "Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me." - Marlee Matlin

  1535. "The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals." - Leonard Boswell

  1536. "The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions." - Goldie Hawn

  1537. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey

  1538. "My mom raised me to be a strong person." - Little Simz

  1539. "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them." - Franz Kafka

  1540. "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark

  1541. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  1542. "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel." - Beth Ditto

  1543. "Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others." - Tony Evans

  1544. "It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it." - Susan Hill

  1545. "The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?" - Dennis C. Blair

  1546. "If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe." - Guru Nanak

  1547. "Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time." - Jo Nesbo

  1548. "Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush." - Alan Colmes

  1549. "There's something special about big midweek games at Easter Road, under the lights, that makes us have that little bit extra about us." - John McGinn

  1550. "I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety." - James Lasdun

  1551. "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise." - George Washington Carver

  1552. "The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know." - Kristin Armstrong

  1553. "The coolest Christmas present I've ever received is probably socks. My grandma always gets me socks - every year - and that's something that I've probably never bought for myself. If Christmas wasn't around and my grandma didn't get me socks, I wouldn't own any, probably." - Luke Combs

  1554. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  1555. "I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me." - Shashi Tharoor

  1556. "Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation." - Richard Holloway

  1557. "The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference." - Naveen Jain

  1558. "Generally, occasions like Maundy Thursday and Easter can strictly be family affairs for Christian households. But, while I was growing up in my ancestral home in Ponkunnam in Kottayam district, they weren't so. My late dad was a very cool, affable person who liked to involve our friends and neighbors too in such celebrations." - Babu Antony

  1559. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  1560. "God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live." - Stephen King

  1561. "My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference." - Claire Saffitz

  1562. "The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday." - Tammy Blanchard

  1563. "I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me." - Sophie Okonedo

  1564. "As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain." - Joseph Nye

  1565. "I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world." - Angelina Jolie

  1566. "Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  1567. "Success comes in waves." - Guy Pearce

  1568. "Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence." - Marguerite Gardiner

  1569. "I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'" - Katie Nolan

  1570. "And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do." - Nick Offerman

  1571. "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other." - Harvey Fierstein

  1572. "My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old." - Ari Aster

  1573. "This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land." - Du Fu

  1574. "I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't." - Nick Hornby

  1575. "God is bigger than people think." - Jimmy Dean

  1576. "Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish." - Akhil Sharma

  1577. "My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me." - Sylvia Plath

  1578. "You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us." - Robin Gibb

  1579. "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke

  1580. "As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique gifts." - Katie McGinty

  1581. "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power." - Alice Walker

  1582. "Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God." - Nipsey Hussle

  1583. "My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad." - Ashton Kutcher

  1584. "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." - Thomas A. Edison

  1585. "I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good." - Bill Murray

  1586. "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time." - Steven Biko

  1587. "I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M." - James Rodriguez

  1588. "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God." - E. Stanley Jones

  1589. "Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!" - Jeanne Marie Laskas

  1590. "I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates." - Jodie Whittaker

  1591. "I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas." - Karlie Kloss

  1592. "Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read." - Wayne Swan

  1593. "I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such." - John Corey Whaley

  1594. "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." - Molly Ivins

  1595. "God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer." - Ramakrishna

  1596. "God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk." - Meister Eckhart

  1597. "Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time." - Ajith Kumar

  1598. "My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts." - Frankie J. Alvarez

  1599. "Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second." - Dana Goodyear

  1600. "If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor." - Joan Rivers

  1601. "Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off." - Tony Bennett

  1602. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  1603. "I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community." - Melanne Verveer

  1604. "I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody." - Danny Pino

  1605. "I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem." - Mike Yaconelli

  1606. "Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world." - Hunter Hayes

  1607. "North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving." - David H. Murdock

  1608. "I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique." - John Oates

  1609. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  1610. "Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday." - John Clayton

  1611. "My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival." - Yngwie Malmsteen

  1612. "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

  1613. "Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." - Charles J. Givens

  1614. "For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid." - Yotam Ottolenghi

  1615. "That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic." - Monty Don

  1616. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

  1617. "India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." - Mark Twain

  1618. "The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God." - Manny Pacquiao

  1619. "Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India." - Chanda Kochhar

  1620. "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift." - Liam Neeson

  1621. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  1622. "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." - Baruch Spinoza

  1623. "Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists." - Bill O'Reilly

  1624. "We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'" - Christina Hendricks

  1625. "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

  1626. "Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back." - Mary Daly

  1627. "Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all." - Anushka Shetty

  1628. "Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style." - Jamie Hyneman

  1629. "Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge." - Lewis Howes

  1630. "When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along." - Elliott Erwitt

  1631. "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success." - Bo Bennett

  1632. "My mom raised me to be a strong person." - Little Simz

  1633. "I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it." - Cameron Dallas

  1634. "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland." - Michael D. Higgins

  1635. "For when a child is born the mother also is born again." - Gilbert Parker

  1636. "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do." - Martin Lawrence

  1637. "Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere." - Robin Morgan

  1638. "My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence." - Charlize Theron

  1639. "Success is the sum of details." - Harvey S. Firestone

  1640. "God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision." - Charles Stanley

  1641. "I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family." - Gerry Cooney

  1642. "Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting." - Beth Brooke

  1643. "I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program." - Christine Tsai

  1644. "Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons." - Emile Durkheim

  1645. "My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  1646. "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance." - Alex Rodriguez

  1647. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  1648. "Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm." - Sebastian Coe

  1649. "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

  1650. "Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Bonnie Raitt

  1651. "We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine." - Debi Mazar

  1652. "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz

  1653. "I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around." - Victoria Pendleton

  1654. "I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike." - Sean Lock

  1655. "My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one." - Jim Beaver

  1656. "You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me." - Dustin Clare

  1657. "A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose." - Reinhard Bonnke

  1658. "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

  1659. "I spent pretty much all my wages from 'No Country For Old Men' on a pair of cowboy boots. They're ridiculous. It's like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs." - Kelly Macdonald

  1660. "Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  1661. "I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album." - Michael Spradlin

  1662. "Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  1663. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  1664. "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans

  1665. "I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500." - Dale Earnhardt

  1666. "Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress." - Sarah Polley

  1667. "There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning." - Jocko Willink

  1668. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  1669. "I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom." - Lisa Guerrero

  1670. "I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted." - Luke Ford

  1671. "Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book." - Jean Harlow

  1672. "I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I'm crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception." - Dave Ramsey

  1673. "Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah." - Meir Soloveichik

  1674. "Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories." - Caroline Sunshine

  1675. "You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body." - Shawn Achor

  1676. "I found that being with happy positive people annoys me." - Karl Pilkington

  1677. "Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children." - Dirk Benedict

  1678. "I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start." - Adam Rippon

  1679. "You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear." - Greg Boyle

  1680. "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung." - Phillips Brooks

  1681. "Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun." - Chief Seattle

  1682. "The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1683. "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep." - Walter Scott

  1684. "When I was doing the breakfast show, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go fishing before doing the show." - Chris Tarrant

  1685. "The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings." - Radhanath Swami

  1686. "I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday." - Yara Shahidi

  1687. "I would recommend 'Lesson Of The Evil' to be given as a DVD gift on a child's 15th birthday. In Japan, children under 15 are not allowed to watch it. Plus, 'Lesson Of The Evil' is one film where the older you get, the more you will be able to understand and enjoy the film." - Takashi Miike

  1688. "Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what." - Shilpa Shinde

  1689. "Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions." - Marilu Henner

  1690. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  1691. "I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific." - Mitch Hedberg

  1692. "My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it." - Syd

  1693. "I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write." - David Mamet

  1694. "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." - Rose George

  1695. "I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God." - Tim Kennedy

  1696. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." - Groucho Marx

  1697. "Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents." - Christian Louboutin

  1698. "It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction." - Kelli O'Hara

  1699. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle Onassis

  1700. "At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins." - Christie Brinkley

  1701. "May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast." - Alastair Campbell

  1702. "I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back." - Daisy Ridley

  1703. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  1704. "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." - Henny Youngman

  1705. "To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ." - Bernhard Langer

  1706. "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note." - Seamus Heaney

  1707. "My mom is the all-seeing eye in the sky. And she definitely doesn't lie. She knows exactly what I'm doing right or wrong, because she taught me everything I know." - Bradley Beal

  1708. "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1709. "I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart." - Roisin Murphy

  1710. "Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature." - Ben Shapiro

  1711. "I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone." - Devon Bostick

  1712. "The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time." - Piet Mondrian

  1713. "My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood." - Beth Ditto

  1714. "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." - Khalil Gibran

  1715. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  1716. "Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice." - Gilbert Baker

  1717. "Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included." - Alan Mulally

  1718. "You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away." - Robert Rinder

  1719. "I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success." - Tim Cook

  1720. "No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy." - Lyman Beecher

  1721. "There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them." - Michael Moore

  1722. "The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday." - Maxine Peake

  1723. "I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model." - David Cassidy

  1724. "My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto." - Cote de Pablo

  1725. "I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings." - Walter Dean Myers

  1726. "They succeed, because they think they can." - Virgil

  1727. "People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Robert Eggers

  1728. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  1729. "I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce." - Mallory Jansen

  1730. "I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success." - J. Paul Getty

  1731. "At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins." - Christie Brinkley

  1732. "The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!" - Sherry Yard

  1733. "My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi." - Fred Armisen

  1734. "My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom." - Maria Brink

  1735. "Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

  1736. "That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy." - George Foreman

  1737. "God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone." - Ziggy Marley

  1738. "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties." - Lance Bass

  1739. "There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts." - Adam Mansbach

  1740. "There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin." - Mary Tyler Moore

  1741. "The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." - James Joyce

  1742. "I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent." - Ismail Kadare

  1743. "Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle." - Mya

  1744. "I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time." - Barbara Bush

  1745. "The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science." - Sam Harris

  1746. "To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor." - Ezra Taft Benson

  1747. "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." - Arthur Helps

  1748. "My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense." - Spencer Dinwiddie

  1749. "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them." - Henry Norris Russell

  1750. "I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table." - Troy Gentile

  1751. "Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work." - Kobe Bryant

  1752. "I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill." - Allen Ginsberg

  1753. "I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive." - Wyclef Jean

  1754. "I view art as an inspirational tool." - Thomas Kincade

  1755. "Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log." - Ellen DeGeneres

  1756. "Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion." - Ambrose Bierce

  1757. "My mum and dad weren't wealthy people. We used to have pasta every day, meat once a week, fish was once every two weeks, presents only at Christmas and birthday." - Gino D'Acampo

  1758. "I would love to be remembered as a wonderfully dynamic and multitalented actress who left a legacy through her work and through her life of helping people and of being a positive force in the world." - Keshia Knight Pulliam

  1759. "I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence." - Angela Bowie

  1760. "I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world." - Dennis Edwards

  1761. "My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything." - Tech N9ne

  1762. "I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim." - Tammy Faye Bakker

  1763. "Fans are always going out of their way and doing so much, be it my birthday or any festival or occasion or most of the time nothing at all and there couldn't be a better way than connecting with them personally and giving them access to my world." - Priyamani

  1764. "From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." - Guru Nanak

  1765. "For me, coming up, the first I had ever heard of basketball? It was from my mom. She was a really good player back in her day, and even played college ball at Kentucky State. And then she went on to become a coach and an AD after that - so she always stayed real close to the game, and kept it a part of her life." - Bradley Beal

  1766. "I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything." - Zoe Bell

  1767. "I try to be positive, and from 'Individual'... which was an angry record. I got a lot of mail from people pouring out their feelings, saying that they could really relate to certain topics that I touched upon. When I read that, it lets know that there are people out there that are people out there who are going through the same things." - Chuck Schuldiner

  1768. "I think that success is having fun." - Bruno Mars

  1769. "While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable." - Ken Ham

  1770. "Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists." - Thomas Friedman

  1771. "My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to." - Willem Dafoe

  1772. "My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist." - Christina Grimmie

  1773. "The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him." - Gustave Flaubert

  1774. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." - Ann Landers

  1775. "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." - Dave Barry

  1776. "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" - Robert Kennedy

  1777. "Books are challenging and inspirational to me." - Amy Sedaris

  1778. "If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not." - Elon Musk

  1779. "I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally." - TobyMac

  1780. "God is the perfect poet." - Robert Browning

  1781. "We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize." - John Henrik Clarke

  1782. "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better." - John Carmack

  1783. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  1784. "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

  1785. "I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?" - Priyanka Chopra

  1786. "Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive." - Ann Oakley

  1787. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  1788. "At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future." - George Takei

  1789. "My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday." - David Ulevitch

  1790. "Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world." - Camryn Manheim

  1791. "And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity." - Nolan Ryan

  1792. "When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression." - Jimmy Somerville

  1793. "Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero." - Martin Seligman

  1794. "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase

  1795. "At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  1796. "I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who has an eating disorder, and that's why she looks the way she looks." - Lauren Alaina

  1797. "There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look." - Jorja Smith

  1798. "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure." - Jean Kerr

  1799. "I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success." - Aamir Khan

  1800. "The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion." - David Deida

  1801. "I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours." - David Mixner

  1802. "A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego." - Roseanne Barr

  1803. "I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California." - Gavin Newsom

  1804. "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!" - Rodney Atkins

  1805. "I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions." - Bonnie Raitt

  1806. "I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best." - Vaani Kapoor

  1807. "I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia." - David O. Selznick

  1808. "Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'" - Andy Biersack

  1809. "Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war." - Nigel Hamilton

  1810. "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra

  1811. "I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift." - Miranda Hart

  1812. "Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success." - Daniel Lubetzky

  1813. "I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations." - Q-Tip

  1814. "God is bigger than people think." - Jimmy Dean

  1815. "Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career." - Sallie Krawcheck

  1816. "It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life." - Constance Marie

  1817. "If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down." - Tony Snow

  1818. "Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term." - Bruce Rauner

  1819. "I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul." - Anne Rice

  1820. "Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money." - Tertullian

  1821. "Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value." - Desmond Tutu

  1822. "I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both." - J. Cole

  1823. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  1824. "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive." - Stephen Fry

  1825. "I am a free-spirited mom." - Kendra Wilkinson

  1826. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

  1827. "The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result." - Margaret Cuomo

  1828. "We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." - William O. Douglas

  1829. "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning." - King Solomon

  1830. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  1831. "By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing." - Abhishek Bachchan

  1832. "'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way." - Amy Lee

  1833. "In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening." - Boy George

  1834. "I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that's an experience every girl should have." - Ronda Rousey

  1835. "You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything." - Rose Namajunas

  1836. "Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey." - Amanda Lindhout

  1837. "Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord." - Saint Ignatius

  1838. "We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease." - Dorothea Dix

  1839. "The coolest Christmas present I've ever received is probably socks. My grandma always gets me socks - every year - and that's something that I've probably never bought for myself. If Christmas wasn't around and my grandma didn't get me socks, I wouldn't own any, probably." - Luke Combs

  1840. "I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot." - Zal Batmanglij

  1841. "I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd." - John Ridley

  1842. "On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly." - Virat Kohli

  1843. "The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born." - Elayne Boosler

  1844. "Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are." - R. Madhavan

  1845. "Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I'm always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game." - Raul

  1846. "I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that." - Kid Rock

  1847. "That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me." - Drew McIntyre

  1848. "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang

  1849. "God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another." - Mike Tyson

  1850. "It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now." - Jurgen Klopp

  1851. "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch

  1852. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges

  1853. "Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day." - Nicolas Chamfort

  1854. "I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence." - Jessica White

  1855. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

  1856. "I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday." - Logic

  1857. "What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God." - Rick Warren

  1858. "If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes." - Persis Khambatta

  1859. "No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans." - James Mattis

  1860. "Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success." - Ambrose Bierce

  1861. "I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story." - Sarah Wright

  1862. "I wake up in the morning thinking about food." - Guy Fieri

  1863. "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Bessie Anderson Stanley

  1864. "For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important." - Aretha Franklin

  1865. "You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off." - Miley Cyrus

  1866. "God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences." - Rodrigo Duterte

  1867. "Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals." - Paul J. Meyer

  1868. "A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year." - Penny Jordan

  1869. "I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender." - Brian Eno

  1870. "Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order." - Ellen G. White

  1871. "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven." - Russell M. Nelson

  1872. "I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas." - Scotty McCreery

  1873. "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms." - Neal Boortz

  1874. "I just have to attend someone's birthday party or go out for dinner with someone else for us to be in a relationship. That's not going to stop me from socialising, but tell me, which girl would want to be with a guy who goes to bed early and gives more importance to the gym?" - Sidharth Malhotra

  1875. "The best thing of all is God is with us." - John Wesley

  1876. "I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else." - Jane Seymour

  1877. "God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive." - Edwin Louis Cole

  1878. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." - Rosa Parks

  1879. "A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house." - Caroline Leavitt

  1880. "I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well." - Yannick Noah

  1881. "The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy." - Bob Schieffer

  1882. "I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me." - Billy Crystal

  1883. "I keep a small - a very, very, very small circle. It's just me and my mom and my sister. And maybe Chris Paul." - Donovan Mitchell

  1884. "The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  1885. "My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud." - Henry Rollins

  1886. "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder." - Charles Morgan

  1887. "My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice." - Banks

  1888. "I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all." - Eva Green

  1889. "I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you." - Nia Jax

  1890. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  1891. "There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well." - Sudeep

  1892. "Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight." - Pope Benedict XVI

  1893. "Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  1894. "My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me." - Zion Williamson

  1895. "Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  1896. "I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress." - Richard M. DeVos

  1897. "I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for." - Diana Lopez

  1898. "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us." - Allyson Felix

  1899. "It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career." - Santigold

  1900. "I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something." - Andy Biersack

  1901. "Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited." - Gottfried Leibniz

  1902. "Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines." - Gloria Trevi

  1903. "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." - Richard Brautigan

  1904. "I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles." - Marianne Vos

  1905. "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians." - Gary North

  1906. "When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning." - Marv Levy

  1907. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

  1908. "The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter." - Reba McEntire

  1909. "If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed." - Juliana Hatfield

  1910. "I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing." - Roger McGuinn

  1911. "When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day." - F. Sionil Jose

  1912. "My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family." - Julie Roberts

  1913. "When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me." - Amy Robach

  1914. "There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God." - Peter Steele

  1915. "I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you can't just go 100 miles an hour all 12 months of the year every day and just keep going. That is a recipe for burnout." - Kirk Cousins

  1916. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein

  1917. "The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted." - Olivia Williams

  1918. "We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith." - Barack Obama

  1919. "The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

  1920. "On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!" - John Torode

  1921. "I've been asking my partner for a dog for a while and she kept saying no. She was obviously keeping it for a birthday surprise, and when I came home from Rotherham, Hugo was sat on the sofa waiting for me. It was a really nice surprise." - Daniel James

  1922. "I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours." - Kurt Vonnegut

  1923. "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan

  1924. "Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness." - Erin Gruwell

  1925. "Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer." - Edmund Hillary

  1926. "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Theodore Roosevelt

  1927. "I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls." - Connie Stevens

  1928. "In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds." - Jacque Fresco

  1929. "As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person." - Psy

  1930. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." - Phillip Adams

  1931. "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  1932. "Every failure is a step to success." - William Whewell

  1933. "And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy." - Feist

  1934. "When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video." - Joyner Lucas

  1935. "You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house." - Sarah Hall

  1936. "You can be experiencing the worst, most gut-wrenching grief and still laugh or feel something positive or even fall in love, and it doesn't diminish the depth and sincerity of your grief." - Jennifer Ashton

  1937. "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical." - Julius Erving

  1938. "My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me." - Sylvia Plath

  1939. "No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start." - Larry McMurtry

  1940. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

  1941. "The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition." - David Novak

  1942. "My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years." - Mary Berry

  1943. "Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I'm still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that." - Angie Thomas

  1944. "It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday." - Nino Schurter

  1945. "Excuses destroy success every time." - Jon Taffer

  1946. "I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation." - Leif Garrett

  1947. "I believe religion is man-made." - Amar'e Stoudemire

  1948. "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." - Charles Spurgeon

  1949. "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden

  1950. "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary." - Bob Dylan

  1951. "Think with your whole body." - Taisen Deshimaru

  1952. "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." - Edsger Dijkstra

  1953. "I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso." - Khalid

  1954. "Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative." - Donnie Yen

  1955. "My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there." - Sebastian Roche

  1956. "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th." - Sarah Ferguson

  1957. "I really believe in positive energy and positive thinking and dreams and all that type of stuff." - Michael Sorrentino

  1958. "Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator." - Joseph Murray

  1959. "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." - Mike Love

  1960. "Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  1961. "You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame." - MS Dhoni

  1962. "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." - Robert Orben

  1963. "I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives." - Andrew Shue

  1964. "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." - Andy Rooney

  1965. "From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture." - Joachim Low

  1966. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau

  1967. "I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold." - Dan Brown

  1968. "I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge." - Mikhail Bakunin

  1969. "I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women." - Linda McMahon

  1970. "No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it." - Robert Rinder

  1971. "Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life." - Christian McCaffrey

  1972. "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary." - Mariella Frostrup

  1973. "A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful." - Steve Harvey

  1974. "When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did." - M.I.A.

  1975. "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." - Wendell Phillips

  1976. "Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style." - Jamie Hyneman

  1977. "Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive." - Sam Hunt

  1978. "'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure." - Fabrizio Moreira

  1979. "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!" - Laurie Anderson

  1980. "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way." - Karl Barth

  1981. "Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism." - Jeb Bush

  1982. "Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack." - Rachel Sklar

  1983. "On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since." - Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  1984. "I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me." - Anthony Ray Hinton

  1985. "I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan." - AB de Villiers

  1986. "The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God." - Antoni Gaudi

  1987. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  1988. "Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business." - Richard Branson

  1989. "Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power." - Julian Casablancas

  1990. "There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance." - Helen Fisher

  1991. "I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great." - Russell Wilson

  1992. "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." - William Pollard

  1993. "The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things." - Nick Hanauer

  1994. "Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year." - Joel Osteen

  1995. "It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it." - Sylvia Plath

  1996. "A thick skin is a gift from God." - Konrad Adenauer

  1997. "My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another." - Art Linkletter

  1998. "'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way." - Amy Lee

  1999. "Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature." - Hallgrimur Helgason

  2000. "What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine." - Oprah Winfrey

  2001. "I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life." - Erica Durance

  2002. "Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted." - Gisele Bundchen

  2003. "My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own business in her mid-40s. She linked manufacturers in Taiwan to companies in the United States that needed those types of products." - Lisa Su

  2004. "My message is that God is a good God." - Joel Osteen

  2005. "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus

  2006. "Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow." - Dylan Lauren

  2007. "Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!" - Jeanne Marie Laskas

  2008. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." - Robert H. Schuller

  2009. "Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy." - Mike Fisher

  2010. "I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope." - Jerry Lewis

  2011. "My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler." - Jacob Dalton

  2012. "Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted." - Gisele Bundchen

  2013. "It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career." - Santigold

  2014. "Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life." - Christian McCaffrey

  2015. "I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid." - David Lambert

  2016. "God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone." - Ziggy Marley

  2017. "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  2018. "My name is Linus, and I am your God." - Linus Torvalds

  2019. "We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries." - Nikki Haley

  2020. "When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees." - Trey Anastasio

  2021. "I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy." - Ali Krieger

  2022. "I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes." - Jake Shears

  2023. "Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives." - Jay Parini

  2024. "My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper." - Kimberly Schlapman

  2025. "Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it." - Florence King

  2026. "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive." - Yoko Ono

  2027. "Success doesn't motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey." - Becky Sauerbrunn

  2028. "When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'" - Roy Orbison

  2029. "I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14." - Johnny Galecki

  2030. "I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad." - Jimmy Smits

  2031. "My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop." - Thomas P. Campbell

  2032. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  2033. "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." - Mark Twain

  2034. "I always wanted to be a mom." - Kate Hudson

  2035. "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

  2036. "I always said God was against art and I still believe it." - Edward Elgar

  2037. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  2038. "My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays." - Joan Rivers

  2039. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - George Bernard Shaw

  2040. "We could hardly wait to get up in the morning." - Wilbur Wright

  2041. "I like to keep my birthday very relaxed." - Barun Sobti

  2042. "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers." - Dave Barry

  2043. "It's much easier for the vegan to remain at home and do their own Christmas dinner. That way, you can enjoy your food without someone making some hilarious comment about your stuffed pepper." - Romesh Ranganathan

  2044. "I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either." - Jose Feliciano

  2045. "If you have talent, then success will come to you." - Kartik Aaryan

  2046. "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac

  2047. "I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped." - Padgett Powell

  2048. "My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love." - Tiger Shroff

  2049. "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." - Robert Orben

  2050. "We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win." - Lzzy Hale

  2051. "I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson." - Whitley Strieber

  2052. "I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me." - Sophie Okonedo

  2053. "When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day." - F. Sionil Jose

  2054. "Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night." - Simon Mainwaring

  2055. "When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it." - Tracy Morgan

  2056. "When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum." - Neil Jackson

  2057. "One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Gian Carlo Menotti

  2058. "If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life." - Hudson Taylor

  2059. "I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit." - Jerry Garcia

  2060. "Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  2061. "To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice." - Ambrose Bierce

  2062. "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." - Algernon Charles Swinburne

  2063. "When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion." - Dennis Prager

  2064. "Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future." - Steve Jobs

  2065. "The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother." - Dorothy Fields

  2066. "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God." - Elizabeth I

  2067. "Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil." - Basil Hume

  2068. "I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also." - John McCain

  2069. "Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came." - Ian Mckellen

  2070. "After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten." - Molly O'Keefe

  2071. "What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble." - Arthur Laffer

  2072. "He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." - Euripides

  2073. "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill

  2074. "Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself." - Kary Mullis

  2075. "I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey." - Wesley Morris

  2076. "For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning." - Jack Klugman

  2077. "During our childhood, my sister and I had no birthday parties. We would take a packet of sweets to school and distribute it to our class-mates. That was it. We were not allowed to go to parties, either." - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  2078. "I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write." - Sigrid Nunez

  2079. "We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top." - Navjot Singh Sidhu

  2080. "The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation." - John Torode

  2081. "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." - Jean Kerr

  2082. "Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian." - Mother Angelica

  2083. "I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom." - Raveena Tandon

  2084. "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

  2085. "I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food." - Brooke Shields

  2086. "My friend had told me about 'Stranger Things' and how I had to watch it. I was like, 'OK, I will!' I binged it in, like, a day and was like, 'Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.' A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part." - Sadie Sink

  2087. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." - Konrad Lorenz

  2088. "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans

  2089. "We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself." - Mother Angelica

  2090. "I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things." - Washed Out

  2091. "Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible." - Mark Hopkins

  2092. "My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a pop group. They met, fell in love, and actually formed a group together to escape the country because it was Communist, and they couldn't leave. They didn't know any English but eventually found their way to America." - Leah LaBelle

  2093. "My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?" - Ja Rule

  2094. "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism." - Benito Mussolini

  2095. "My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it." - Meghan Markle

  2096. "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge

  2097. "My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success." - Coy Bowles

  2098. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  2099. "Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense." - Matisyahu

  2100. "The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'" - Billy Graham

  2101. "I share a birthday with Max Beesley and James Nesbitt." - Claudia Winkleman

  2102. "In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!" - Lloyd Kaufman

  2103. "The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." - Thomas Carlyle

  2104. "God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion." - Desmond Tutu

  2105. "We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!" - Trisha Yearwood

  2106. "Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back." - Cardi B

  2107. "We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace." - Stanley Hauerwas

  2108. "Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time." - Lex Luger

  2109. "My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine." - Rza

  2110. "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." - J. D. Salinger

  2111. "God requireth not a uniformity of religion." - Roger Williams

  2112. "I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song." - Brian Wilson

  2113. "My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength." - Justin Trudeau

  2114. "I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!" - Cara Delevingne

  2115. "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning." - King Solomon

  2116. "I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything." - Hit-Boy

  2117. "I buck the trend: I eat avocados on a Sunday morning and I'm a homeowner." - Russell Howard

  2118. "My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!" - Ashley Graham

  2119. "In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note." - Victoria Osteen

  2120. "And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected." - Chris Christie

  2121. "God save us from religion." - David Icke

  2122. "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit." - Avicenna

  2123. "God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul." - Jean Paul

  2124. "I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife's better judgment." - Terry Zwigoff

  2125. "I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties." - Jay-Z

  2126. "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri

  2127. "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world." - Nigel Lythgoe

  2128. "I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross." - Colby Covington

  2129. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  2130. "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing." - Michael Gove

  2131. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful." - Tyga

  2132. "Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation." - E. Stanley Jones

  2133. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

  2134. "We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date." - Beyonce Knowles

  2135. "The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old." - Greg Rucka

  2136. "God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." - Karen Blixen

  2137. "'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular." - Claire Tomalin

  2138. "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel." - Beth Ditto

  2139. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  2140. "Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles." - Edwin Louis Cole

  2141. "Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers... and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message." - Ryan Tannehill

  2142. "Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them." - John Ortberg

  2143. "I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better." - Jean Nidetch

  2144. "I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes." - Jake Shears

  2145. "The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success." - Adam Grant

  2146. "Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." - Larry King

  2147. "I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all." - John Daly

  2148. "Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story." - Joan Lingard

  2149. "There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation." - Eugene Ionesco

  2150. "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  2151. "I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience." - Marie Curie

  2152. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts

  2153. "Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about." - Sean Hayes

  2154. "No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'" - Johnny Weir

  2155. "God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them." - Joel Osteen

  2156. "That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity." - Hans Kung

  2157. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen

  2158. "Religion cannot be the agenda of any government." - Mamata Banerjee

  2159. "I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature." - Dan Amboyer

  2160. "Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!" - Zayn Malik

  2161. "I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays." - Bryson Tiller

  2162. "I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide." - Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

  2163. "I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty." - Brittany Snow

  2164. "There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine." - Nikola Tesla

  2165. "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

  2166. "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson

  2167. "I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either." - Jose Feliciano

  2168. "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." - Andy Rooney

  2169. "My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money." - Megan Fox

  2170. "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  2171. "You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days." - Anne Murray

  2172. "Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature." - Hallgrimur Helgason

  2173. "My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom." - Maria Brink

  2174. "My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him." - Loretta Lynn

  2175. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  2176. "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'" - Johnny Carson

  2177. "Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer." - Monica Johnson

  2178. "I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'" - Jimmy Fallon

  2179. "I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire." - Bonnie McKee

  2180. "Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup." - Jocko Willink

  2181. "I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone." - Rachel Platten

  2182. "I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil." - John C. Calhoun

  2183. "There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that." - Morgan Wallen

  2184. "My favorite breakfast that is nutritious and very quick to do is eggs. Of course not everyday because that's not good for you, but I like to have eggs in the morning at least three times a week as it gives me a lot of energy." - Gino D'Acampo

  2185. "One person's religion is another person's cult." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

  2186. "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  2187. "My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing." - David Ortiz

  2188. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." - Napoleon Hill

  2189. "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing." - Michael Gove

  2190. "To be honest with you, the fact that people vibe with my music is just a really positive byproduct of something that is just a reflex to me. The fact that people even care to listen means a lot to me." - Jessie Reyez

  2191. "The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after." - Tallulah Bankhead

  2192. "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions." - Scott Ian

  2193. "There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album." - Isaac Hanson

  2194. "I wouldn't wish it on people but there is a positive side to a near-death experience. People used to ask me do you fancy doing this or that - and it was like I had a file of reasons in my head for not doing things. I would riffle through it until I found one. But I've dropped that." - Bob Mortimer

  2195. "My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?" - Labrinth

  2196. "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." - Jewel

  2197. "Every morning I wake up with new ideas." - Carroll Shelby

  2198. "Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well." - Jacqueline Fernandez

  2199. "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." - Charles Dudley Warner

  2200. "I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people." - Nneka

  2201. "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." - Benjamin Franklin

  2202. "I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be." - Joyce Meyer

  2203. "The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years." - Declan Donnelly

  2204. "Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide." - Ayushmann Khurrana

  2205. "Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding." - Gloria Estefan

  2206. "As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment." - Christina Tosi

  2207. "African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations." - Mos Def

  2208. "I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation." - Leif Garrett

  2209. "One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that." - Allison Williams

  2210. "We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard." - Clive Barker

  2211. "I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it." - Sonia Sotomayor

  2212. "The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey." - Andrae Crouch

  2213. "I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold." - Dan Brown

  2214. "The most positive men are the most credulous." - Alexander Pope

  2215. "I feel like I'm meant to be a mom." - Kaley Cuoco

  2216. "I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?" - Patti Davis

  2217. "My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better." - Tessa Virtue

  2218. "The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power." - Simon Schama

  2219. "I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue-eyed girls. Who was Mary? And the shepherds were all the black and Indian kids in the background." - John Barnes

  2220. "It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

  2221. "I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake." - Kimberly Schlapman

  2222. "I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success." - John C. Reilly

  2223. "'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness." - John de Mol, Jr.

  2224. "When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way." - Chris Cornell

  2225. "My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don't have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride." - Ritesh Agarwal

  2226. "You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better." - Slim Jimmy

  2227. "I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for me." - James Gunn

  2228. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck

  2229. "Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  2230. "I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around." - Rita Rudner

  2231. "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go." - Pearl Bailey

  2232. "That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring - for better or worse, through sickness and health - than the one I had with my now ex-husband." - Mona Eltahawy

  2233. "I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike." - Paul Mooney

  2234. "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are." - Jose Saramago

  2235. "To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship." - Steve Earle

  2236. "My mom raised us like we were still in the Philippines. She tried to cure everything at home like a real Filipino woman. You had to die to go to the hospital. My mom cured everything with Vicks VapoRub. I should've died nine times when I was a kid!" - Jo Koy

  2237. "As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker." - Annie Dillard

  2238. "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder." - Charles Morgan

  2239. "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh." - Benny Hinn

  2240. "I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special." - Jennifer Aniston

  2241. "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs

  2242. "I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!" - Norman Rockwell

  2243. "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me." - Diego Maradona

  2244. "Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  2245. "Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it." - Joel Osteen

  2246. "Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." - Charles J. Givens

  2247. "'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State." - Lori Wilde

  2248. "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty

  2249. "Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own." - Ethel Merman

  2250. "I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that." - El DeBarge

  2251. "I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday." - Daniel Handler

  2252. "It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral." - Fabrizio Moreira

  2253. "My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better." - DMX

  2254. "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  2255. "God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over." - Fantasia Barrino

  2256. "I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played." - Dustin Johnson

  2257. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

  2258. "I start small. I'm kind to people. I say please, I say thank you, and I always try to be encouraging and positive." - Big Show

  2259. "At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption." - E. Stanley Jones

  2260. "I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important." - Ana Navarro

  2261. "In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League." - Juan Mata

  2262. "I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket." - Louise Post

  2263. "My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home." - Will Hurd

  2264. "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz

  2265. "My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya." - Joel Madden

  2266. "When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up." - Andrew Lincoln

  2267. "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world." - Nigel Lythgoe

  2268. "If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own." - Henry Ford

  2269. "As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues." - Paul Dini

  2270. "The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer." - Yuvraj Singh

  2271. "I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well." - Yannick Noah

  2272. "Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion." - Richard John Neuhaus

  2273. "Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think." - Andrew Neil

  2274. "I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball

  2275. "The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes." - Sara Paxton

  2276. "My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating." - Meghan Markle

  2277. "My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist." - Mark Bradford

  2278. "Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right." - Kajol

  2279. "As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways." - Tim Scott

  2280. "There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner." - Dean Lewis

  2281. "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms." - Ellen G. White

  2282. "I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things." - Dick Cheney

  2283. "You want to focus on the fans and on the positive energy that you receive from them." - Lance Stroll

  2284. "Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude." - Bikram Choudhury

  2285. "My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded." - Caitlyn Jenner

  2286. "Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it." - Natalie Portman

  2287. "On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections." - Eva Herzigova

  2288. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

  2289. "Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'" - Jimmy Connors

  2290. "My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know." - Karisma Kapoor

  2291. "My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense." - Spencer Dinwiddie

  2292. "It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard." - Andy Ruiz Jr.

  2293. "My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me." - Nate Robinson

  2294. "Get up every morning, tell yourself you are beautiful and gear up to win!" - Manushi Chhillar

  2295. "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  2296. "This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth." - Tim Sweeney

  2297. "My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right." - Anthony Ray Hinton

  2298. "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself." - Robert Collier

  2299. "I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys." - Usher

  2300. "I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety." - James Lasdun

  2301. "Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give." - Adam Neumann

  2302. "My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'" - Gabby Douglas

  2303. "I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good." - Bill Murray

  2304. "Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  2305. "I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together." - Monica

  2306. "I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure." - Charlotte McKinney

  2307. "If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive." - Alice Waters

  2308. "I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." - DJ Khaled

  2309. "A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician." - Emma Bonino

  2310. "You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that." - Jack Welch

  2311. "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

  2312. "I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school." - Nadiya Hussain

  2313. "We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures." - Tom Hodgkinson

  2314. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  2315. "If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors." - Vivek Wadhwa

  2316. "The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts." - Hank Azaria

  2317. "My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?" - Ja Rule

  2318. "I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history." - Daniel Boulud

  2319. "I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design." - iJustine

  2320. "I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge." - Mikhail Bakunin

  2321. "If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways." - Michael Flanders

  2322. "Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing." - Warren Bennis

  2323. "Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen." - Wayne Huizenga

  2324. "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." - Jimmy Carter

  2325. "I love being around positive people and making people smile." - JaVale McGee

  2326. "I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down." - Ernest Hemingway

  2327. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  2328. "At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special." - Kevin Richardson

  2329. "For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in - whether it's through social-media platforms, whether it's through speeches, whether it's through interviews - that's always a positive." - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  2330. "On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea." - Patricia Cornwell

  2331. "My mom, her money going was straight to the bills." - Kodak Black

  2332. "When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves." - Casey Affleck

  2333. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

  2334. "The dreadlocks were easy to maintain: I got up in the morning and flicked my head. If they got too big, I'd pull them apart every now and again. In the end, I got too old for them." - Henrik Larsson

  2335. "My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday." - David Ulevitch

  2336. "I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea." - Michael Eisner

  2337. "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." - H. L. Mencken

  2338. "Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat." - Marcus Samuelsson

  2339. "If you have talent, then success will come to you." - Kartik Aaryan

  2340. "Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health." - Ric Flair

  2341. "There's no religion but sex and music." - Sting

  2342. "Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people." - Pele

  2343. "It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion." - Herman Hesse

  2344. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

  2345. "Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have." - Glen Campbell

  2346. "I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement." - Pete Rose

  2347. "I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood." - Max Muller

  2348. "You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing." - Taylor Lautner

  2349. "I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer." - Elif Batuman

  2350. "Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference." - Robbie Robertson

  2351. "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." - Edna Ferber

  2352. "When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes." - Jeff Bridges

  2353. "My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god." - Ray Bradbury

  2354. "God looks after children, animals and idiots." - Lou Holtz

  2355. "Religion and slavery are incompatible." - B. R. Ambedkar

  2356. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  2357. "We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day." - Perry Como

  2358. "Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." - Marilyn vos Savant

  2359. "I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead." - Susan Orlean

  2360. "The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits." - Lewis Howes

  2361. "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

  2362. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  2363. "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars." - Richard M. Nixon

  2364. "When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve." - Jane Lynch

  2365. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  2366. "In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution." - Alexander Hamilton

  2367. "Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections." - Eric Kripke

  2368. "Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  2369. "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." - Catherine Zeta-Jones

  2370. "A President cannot always be popular." - Harry S Truman

  2371. "I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both." - Delphine Arnault

  2372. "When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas." - Dee Rees

  2373. "Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam." - Moeen Ali

  2374. "Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning." - Hunter S. Thompson

  2375. "Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too." - Jeb Bush

  2376. "It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired." - William Hurt

  2377. "A film like 'Dangal' is universal; though it narrates a story that happened in Punjab/Haryana, we like its inspirational story and its idea of celebrating the girl child." - Karthi

  2378. "Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone." - John Wooden

  2379. "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind." - Joel Osteen

  2380. "One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature." - Greg Graffin

  2381. "You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people." - Nadia Comaneci

  2382. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  2383. "Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well." - Tom Rath

  2384. "When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much." - Will Ferrell

  2385. "There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie." - Ice Cube

  2386. "Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'" - Jimmy Connors

  2387. "When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas." - Elias

  2388. "I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion." - Charles Spurgeon

  2389. "Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." - Andre Gide

  2390. "The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent." - Charlie Sheen

  2391. "I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it's during a performance, practice, or doing an interview." - Laurie Hernandez

  2392. "Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

  2393. "I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts." - Queen Latifah

  2394. "My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel." - Barun Sobti

  2395. "The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book." - James Rollins

  2396. "It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture." - Wangari Maathai

  2397. "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." - Junipero Serra

  2398. "I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening." - Naguib Mahfouz

  2399. "One and God make a majority." - Frederick Douglass

  2400. "Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too." - William Blake

  2401. "Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print." - Dave Barry

  2402. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli

  2403. "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been." - Bobby Jindal

  2404. "For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic." - J. Courtney Sullivan

  2405. "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace." - George Santayana

  2406. "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it." - Franz Grillparzer

  2407. "I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific." - Mitch Hedberg

  2408. "Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself." - Larry David

  2409. "Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool." - Connor Franta

  2410. "My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me." - LeBron James

  2411. "Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  2412. "Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print." - Dave Barry

  2413. "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms." - Neal Boortz

  2414. "Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either." - Anne Murray

  2415. "I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays." - Laila Rouass

  2416. "I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme." - Ant Middleton

  2417. "I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11." - Miranda Hart

  2418. "Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible." - Mark Hopkins

  2419. "My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me." - A Boogie wit da Hoodie

  2420. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller

  2421. "God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is." - Monica Johnson

  2422. "I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day." - Michelle Dean

  2423. "The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ." - John Piper

  2424. "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free." - Ray Manzarek

  2425. "God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow." - Joyce Meyer

  2426. "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven." - Alphonse de Lamartine

  2427. "Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope." - John Piper

  2428. "It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever." - Hannah Simone

  2429. "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians." - Gary North

  2430. "My second freshman year of college, that's year two of seven, my father got very sick and though he was going to die. He gave me a Rolex, a bottom of the line one. I wore that watch everyday. He didn't die. On my 40th birthday, he gave me a very nice Rolex that belonged to him. That's the one thing we connect on: the watch." - Bert Kreischer

  2431. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

  2432. "I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think." - Rachel Zoe

  2433. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

  2434. "For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very." - Jon Hamm

  2435. "Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same." - Rachael Ray

  2436. "North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving." - David H. Murdock

  2437. "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions." - Scott Ian

  2438. "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God." - John Shelby Spong

  2439. "There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album." - Isaac Hanson

  2440. "My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think." - Noel Gallagher

  2441. "I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic." - Monica Bellucci

  2442. "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith

  2443. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  2444. "My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere." - John Waters

  2445. "People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it." - Goldie Hawn

  2446. "I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees." - Tammy Duckworth

  2447. "I've said all along that God is in control." - Tony Dungy

  2448. "It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive." - Lil' Kim

  2449. "It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night." - Scott Michael Foster

  2450. "People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" - Nhat Hanh

  2451. "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love." - Gabriel Byrne

  2452. "So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact." - Trey Parker

  2453. "My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix." - Ian Gomez

  2454. "I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden." - Bjorn Ulvaeus

  2455. "Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  2456. "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens." - David Cameron

  2457. "I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'" - Michael Ball

  2458. "I love America. It's such a positive country." - Victoria Beckham

  2459. "I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'" - Tig Notaro

  2460. "The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall." - Judy Smith

  2461. "Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me." - Elvis Presley

  2462. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." - Napoleon Hill

  2463. "God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel." - Charles Stanley

  2464. "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do." - Heidi Klum

  2465. "To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you're a gosh dang philosopher." - Kat Timpf

  2466. "I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck." - Killer Mike

  2467. "I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'" - Steven Wright

  2468. "Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals." - David A. Bednar

  2469. "Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it's good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away." - Anthony Joshua

  2470. "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." - Elizabeth Bowen

  2471. "I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning." - Robert Duvall

  2472. "My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day." - Victor Cruz

  2473. "The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion." - Billy Sunday

  2474. "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." - John B. S. Haldane

  2475. "The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God." - Antoni Gaudi

  2476. "I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?" - Joey Jordison

  2477. "If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized your religion." - Linda Sarsour

  2478. "To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed." - Nat Turner

  2479. "There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance." - Helen Fisher

  2480. "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke

  2481. "God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble." - Ezra Taft Benson

  2482. "My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little." - Paul Dano

  2483. "I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive." - Aly Raisman

  2484. "I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation." - Simon Callow

  2485. "Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?" - Pippa Middleton

  2486. "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." - Kevin Hart

  2487. "I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives." - Nadia Comaneci

  2488. "Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast." - Carl Reiner

  2489. "I do like my eggs in the morning, if I was trying to be good I'd have a piece of rye bread with a bit of avocado and scrambled egg whites." - Michelle Keegan

  2490. "I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't." - Steve Harvey

  2491. "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." - ASAP Rocky

  2492. "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost

  2493. "Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude." - Nigel Hamilton

  2494. "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God." - Billy Graham

  2495. "If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards." - Bear Bryant

  2496. "I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence." - Yelena Baturina

  2497. "There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights." - Madam C. J. Walker

  2498. "The only way you can serve God is by serving other people." - Rick Warren

  2499. "If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God." - Ramakrishna

  2500. "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children." - Maxim Gorky

  2501. "I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits." - Ray Allen

  2502. "Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle." - Jay Shetty

  2503. "I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound." - Jean-Michel Jarre

  2504. "Surfing is my religion, if I have one." - Kelly Slater

  2505. "God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart." - Saint Bernard

  2506. "Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs." - Miley Cyrus

  2507. "I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life." - Ciara

  2508. "Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium." - Vincent Kompany

  2509. "We are never defeated unless we give up on God." - Ronald Reagan

  2510. "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them." - George Eliot

  2511. "What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence." - Aileen Lee

  2512. "Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we're doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had." - Trish Regan

  2513. "Mom would kill me if I showed my navel." - Brandy Norwood

  2514. "I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive message that women of all sizes really need to adopt." - Jameela Jamil

  2515. "Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me." - MS Dhoni

  2516. "Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G." - Michelle Phan

  2517. "Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship." - Eric Metaxas

  2518. "My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'" - Zack Snyder

  2519. "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar." - Susan Orlean

  2520. "I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does." - Victoria Beckham

  2521. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  2522. "My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!" - Lucy Hale

  2523. "I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me." - Shemar Moore

  2524. "My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level." - Kapil Dev

  2525. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

  2526. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore de Balzac

  2527. "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." - Thomas Merton

  2528. "We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord." - Fred Hammond

  2529. "I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class." - Stacey Farber

  2530. "The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'" - Spike Milligan

  2531. "God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family." - Coy Bowles

  2532. "In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success." - Ben Bernanke

  2533. "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves." - Leon Uris

  2534. "Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for." - Henry Samueli

  2535. "I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me." - Carol Burnett

  2536. "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves." - Major Taylor

  2537. "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

  2538. "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week." - John Sununu

  2539. "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." - Charles Darwin

  2540. "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther

  2541. "My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did." - DeMar DeRozan

  2542. "Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

  2543. "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." - Golda Meir

  2544. "To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law." - William Tyndale

  2545. "Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives." - Larry Elder

  2546. "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test." - Joan Chen

  2547. "I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know." - Ice Cube

  2548. "My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?" - Labrinth

  2549. "I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone." - David Sedaris

  2550. "At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be." - Elif Batuman

  2551. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

  2552. "I really believe in the 'Glow' and live my life that way. It's about being positive inside and out and being the best version of yourself possible." - Naomi

  2553. "To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship." - Steve Earle

  2554. "Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas." - George Osborne

  2555. "My mother died on my birthday." - Shannon Briggs

  2556. "My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!" - Johnny Mathis

  2557. "President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama." - John J. McLaughlin

  2558. "My mom taught me not to talk about money." - Hilary Duff

  2559. "I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid." - Corey Taylor

  2560. "Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals." - Paul J. Meyer

  2561. "I know how to do anything, I'm a mom." - Roseanne Barr

  2562. "Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome." - Zig Ziglar

  2563. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  2564. "For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics." - Michael J. Knowles

  2565. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand

  2566. "A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand." - Benny Fine

  2567. "I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted." - Paul Bettany

  2568. "Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different." - Cindy Williams

  2569. "Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality." - Gordon Brown

  2570. "I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space." - John Lydon

  2571. "My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds." - Carol Alt

  2572. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." - Ellen DeGeneres

  2573. "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature." - Neil Young

  2574. "Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy." - Liza Minnelli

  2575. "If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull." - Jennifer Coolidge

  2576. "I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several." - Alastair Reynolds

  2577. "My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side." - Bode Miller

  2578. "I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger." - Vijender Singh

  2579. "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  2580. "I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal." - Karla Crome

  2581. "Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

  2582. "The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen." - Sarah Brown

  2583. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi

  2584. "The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that." - Ian Somerhalder

  2585. "Real Madrid is much more than I expected. I love waking up in the morning and going to Valdebebas." - Casemiro

  2586. "My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain." - Helena Bonham Carter

  2587. "Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones." - Jennifer Coolidge

  2588. "We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions." - Eric Liu

  2589. "Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared." - Katherine Johnson

  2590. "P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard." - Martin Seligman

  2591. "I have always felt like I am a positive player." - K. L. Rahul

  2592. "Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care." - Miriam Defensor-Santiago

  2593. "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men." - George Eliot

  2594. "Mankind is made great or little by its own will." - Friedrich Schiller

  2595. "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  2596. "Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time." - Tony Visconti

  2597. "Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists." - Bill O'Reilly

  2598. "We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures." - Tom Hodgkinson

  2599. "Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world." - Amanda Lindhout

  2600. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  2601. "My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." - Isaac Newton

  2602. "For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic." - J. Courtney Sullivan

  2603. "My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding." - Dalai Lama

  2604. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

  2605. "My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself." - Park Bo-gum

  2606. "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms." - Neal Boortz

  2607. "We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself." - Mother Angelica

  2608. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

  2609. "If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines." - Gary Hamel

  2610. "The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty." - Sasha Velour

  2611. "So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie." - Peter Baynham

  2612. "I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian." - Jimmy O. Yang

  2613. "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." - Pablo Picasso

  2614. "I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions." - Stephen Dobyns

  2615. "I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit." - Amanda Seyfried

  2616. "My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus." - Rajneesh

  2617. "It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive." - Lil' Kim

  2618. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  2619. "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success." - Denis Waitley

  2620. "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get." - Kevin Spacey

  2621. "I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off." - Bruce Willis

  2622. "It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way." - Flo Rida

  2623. "Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us." - Saint Ignatius

  2624. "I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street." - Zoe Bell

  2625. "My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven." - KiKi Layne

  2626. "My mom gave me a Chanel dress when I was younger. I felt special. I think anybody feels special in Chanel." - Lily-Rose Depp

  2627. "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." - Erma Bombeck

  2628. "Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character." - Vince Gill

  2629. "One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'" - Adam West

  2630. "My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'" - Awkwafina

  2631. "Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh." - Steven Tyler

  2632. "The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness." - Ellen G. White

  2633. "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else." - Jessie J

  2634. "North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving." - David H. Murdock

  2635. "Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God." - John Hines

  2636. "I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays." - Laila Rouass

  2637. "At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid." - Brian Stokes Mitchell

  2638. "Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down." - Tomi Lahren

  2639. "My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing." - Raini Rodriguez

  2640. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  2641. "Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow." - David Carson

  2642. "My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way." - Scott Eastwood

  2643. "Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London." - Tom Hardy

  2644. "I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together." - Queen Elizabeth II

  2645. "'Robin's Test' is more contemporary than what I normally do. It's about couples going on a camping holiday for a 50th birthday. Two couples go, and then this other couple were going to come, but they've broken up, and so the man from that couple turns up, but with a new girlfriend that nobody likes - and I'm playing that character." - Julia Davis

  2646. "I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas." - Leslie Bricusse

  2647. "I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship." - Lemmy

  2648. "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung." - Phillips Brooks

  2649. "Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up." - Allen Klein

  2650. "How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood." - Harold Ramis

  2651. "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." - Rose George

  2652. "What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness." - Saint Basil

  2653. "I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour." - Vaani Kapoor

  2654. "We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king." - Brother Lawrence

  2655. "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker

  2656. "God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that." - Clayton Kershaw

  2657. "I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence." - Jessica White

  2658. "I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake." - Mitch Hedberg

  2659. "From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work." - Homaro Cantu

  2660. "It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them." - Karrie Webb

  2661. "My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters." - Slash

  2662. "Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me." - Ryan Adams

  2663. "I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them." - Kailash Satyarthi

  2664. "If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work." - Bruce Lipton

  2665. "Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings." - Shakira

  2666. "Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg's last birthday party." - Nish Kumar

  2667. "I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures." - Alex Zanardi

  2668. "God's mercy is fresh and new every morning." - Joyce Meyer

  2669. "I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears." - Michael Trucco

  2670. "When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place." - Drew Busby

  2671. "There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself." - Dave Davies

  2672. "Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us." - Lady Gaga

  2673. "The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out." - Solomon Burke

  2674. "My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids." - Olga Kurylenko

  2675. "Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown." - Frances Wright

  2676. "I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move." - Beeban Kidron

  2677. "An honest man's the noblest work of God." - Alexander Pope

  2678. "I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I'm now a mom, and I'm going to find other things to do with my life." - Beth Phoenix

  2679. "The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction." - Christian de Duve

  2680. "Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior." - Ron Williams

  2681. "I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up." - Johnny Vegas

  2682. "The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning." - Samuel Johnson

  2683. "Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway." - Rose Kennedy

  2684. "The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know." - Kristin Armstrong

  2685. "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs." - Hunter S. Thompson

  2686. "I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is." - Octavia Spencer

  2687. "When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep." - Alex Gibney

  2688. "God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!" - Joyce Meyer

  2689. "I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy." - Toni Braxton

  2690. "I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'" - Ruth Ware

  2691. "Much effort, much prosperity." - Euripides

  2692. "I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way." - Neale Donald Walsch

  2693. "It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good." - Shari Arison

  2694. "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith

  2695. "Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued." - Richard Thaler

  2696. "All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it." - Young Jeezy

  2697. "Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence." - Elias Canetti

  2698. "Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log." - Ellen DeGeneres

  2699. "Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others." - Tony Evans

  2700. "And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over." - Delta Burke

  2701. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

  2702. "Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint." - Julie Andrews

  2703. "Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me." - Mindy Kaling

  2704. "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." - Pablo Picasso

  2705. "One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun." - Sabrina Bryan

  2706. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  2707. "I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will." - Charles Spurgeon

  2708. "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." - Martina Hingis

  2709. "For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series." - Charles Best

  2710. "Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared." - Katherine Johnson

  2711. "God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks." - Clint Eastwood

  2712. "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher

  2713. "My husband believed 'the herb' was a natural and positive part of life, and he felt it was important to the world." - Rita Marley

  2714. "I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it." - Jane Elliot

  2715. "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it." - Jules Renard

  2716. "I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going." - Stephen Hawking

  2717. "The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them." - John Wycliffe

  2718. "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." - Billie Jean King

  2719. "There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions." - Frank Sinatra

  2720. "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary." - Mariella Frostrup

  2721. "God is a verb, not a noun." - R. Buckminster Fuller

  2722. "I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks." - Karen Robards

  2723. "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

  2724. "With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties." - Lisa Loeb

  2725. "I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son." - Nancy Dubuc

  2726. "Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind." - James Martineau

  2727. "I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day." - Ellie Kemper

  2728. "I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed." - Jonathan Krisel

  2729. "I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model." - David Cassidy

  2730. "There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie." - Ice Cube

  2731. "I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear." - Mark Wahlberg

  2732. "I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway." - Alan Colmes

  2733. "I remember my father used to wake up at 4 A.M. He woke me up as well. We would leave home together, he was going to work and I continued my walk to catch the bus. I had my training session with Sao Paulo in the morning. I had to take two buses to the point I could take the club bus." - Ederson

  2734. "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." - Mira Nair

  2735. "I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now." - Cheryl James

  2736. "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" - James Allen

  2737. "My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing." - Meghan O'Rourke

  2738. "We are here to make another world." - W. Edwards Deming

  2739. "My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion." - Kirk Douglas

  2740. "If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to." - Greg Davies

  2741. "To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field." - Edward de Bono

  2742. "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows." - Ben Stein

  2743. "At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive." - Paul Feig

  2744. "The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me." - Howard Nemerov

  2745. "Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake." - Amanda Knox

  2746. "I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability." - Zoe Foster Blake

  2747. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are." - Joyce Giraud

  2748. "Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have." - Glen Campbell

  2749. "Success unshared is failure." - John Paul DeJoria

  2750. "Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning." - Namie Amuro

  2751. "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." - Nicolaus Copernicus

  2752. "Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not." - Priyanka Chopra

  2753. "You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it." - Caroline Kennedy

  2754. "The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction." - Murray Rothbard

  2755. "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience." - Saint Ambrose

  2756. "Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive." - John Krasinski

  2757. "Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  2758. "There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up." - Bruce Springsteen

  2759. "'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure." - Fabrizio Moreira

  2760. "My mom raised me to never have anything control me." - Chris Tucker

  2761. "As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven." - Billy Graham

  2762. "Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history." - Anita Baker

  2763. "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'" - Billy Graham

  2764. "Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think." - Johnny Mathis

  2765. "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning." - Honore de Balzac

  2766. "Well, my mom is Japanese. She moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager. And so, her food is - she did all of the cooking at home for the most part." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  2767. "When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy." - Samuel Goldwyn

  2768. "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

  2769. "While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun." - Jean Chatzky

  2770. "We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into their bedrooms at 1 A.M. and filling the stockings up at the end of the bed." - Richard Attenborough

  2771. "I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life." - Ciara

  2772. "I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?" - Katrina Kaif

  2773. "The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews." - Matisyahu

  2774. "Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse." - Rebecca West

  2775. "Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability." - Kehlani

  2776. "Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." - Michael Jordan

  2777. "Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam." - Moeen Ali

  2778. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  2779. "I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted." - Paul Bettany

  2780. "If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions." - Lawrence Wright

  2781. "Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational." - Robert Gottlieb

  2782. "Every day brings new choices." - Martha Beck

  2783. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  2784. "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?" - Desmond Tutu

  2785. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  2786. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  2787. "You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you." - Jillian Michaels

  2788. "My mom, dad, and sister have all watched every episode of everything I've ever done." - Lindy Booth

  2789. "Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success." - Scott Adams

  2790. "When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television." - Justin Timberlake

  2791. "I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older." - Kyle

  2792. "Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different." - Mary H.K. Choi

  2793. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley

  2794. "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success." - Zig Ziglar

  2795. "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." - Steven Seagal

  2796. "In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne." - Michael Leunig

  2797. "Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection." - Pindar

  2798. "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

  2799. "I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there." - Evan Rachel Wood

  2800. "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal." - Carol P. Christ

  2801. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  2802. "My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others." - Matthew Perry

  2803. "Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them." - John Ortberg

  2804. "I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'" - Stewart Udall

  2805. "Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package." - Jon Katz

  2806. "There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God." - Peter Steele

  2807. "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." - John Flavel

  2808. "I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change." - Dominique Moceanu

  2809. "A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences." - John Lasseter

  2810. "Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have." - Joyce Meyer

  2811. "To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." - Victor Hugo

  2812. "These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  2813. "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head." - Malcolm Mclaren

  2814. "One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'" - Adam West

  2815. "People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that's made people look to the future in a positive way." - Michael Franti

  2816. "The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true." - Hedy Lamarr

  2817. "At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'" - Mary Steenburgen

  2818. "Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium." - Vincent Kompany

  2819. "For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house." - Kevin Jonas

  2820. "My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival." - Yngwie Malmsteen

  2821. "The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn't have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known." - Ruby Bridges

  2822. "Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage." - Natasha Trethewey

  2823. "In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?" - Jamie Foxx

  2824. "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." - Les Brown

  2825. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  2826. "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square." - Michelle Obama

  2827. "Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives." - Larry Elder

  2828. "When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much." - Will Ferrell

  2829. "On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas." - Eden Sher

  2830. "The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free." - Swami Vivekananda

  2831. "Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom." - Rene Russo

  2832. "My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one." - Jim Beaver

  2833. "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson

  2834. "I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year." - John Lanchester

  2835. "The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery." - David Brainerd

  2836. "I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight." - Chord Overstreet

  2837. "I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection." - Kyle Mooney

  2838. "If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless." - James E. Faust

  2839. "I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being." - Mackenzie Davis

  2840. "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay." - William Cowper

  2841. "I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you." - Clint Eastwood

  2842. "My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies." - Inbar Lavi

  2843. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  2844. "I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time." - Shawn Mendes

  2845. "I want people to get positive energy from our music." - Suga

  2846. "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do." - Heidi Klum

  2847. "I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something." - Paula Pell

  2848. "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." - Elie Wiesel

  2849. "I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours." - Trisha Yearwood

  2850. "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

  2851. "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." - John B. S. Haldane

  2852. "I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me." - Gene Hackman

  2853. "A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox." - Julia Cameron

  2854. "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

  2855. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  2856. "Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life." - T. B. Joshua

  2857. "I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles." - Marianne Vos

  2858. "I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference." - Linus Torvalds

  2859. "We had been to a couple really awkward office Christmas parties, including one at our production company. It's just a really interesting place, an event that hadn't really been captured." - Will Speck

  2860. "Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe." - Zooey Deschanel

  2861. "Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer." - Phil Robertson

  2862. "I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God." - Rodney King

  2863. "I didn't expect all of this success to come so quickly." - Bianca Andreescu

  2864. "To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today, and how it has changed along the way. The word 'nice' is a positive word today, but hundreds of years ago, it meant 'stupid.'" - Anu Garg

  2865. "My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems." - Rony Abovitz

  2866. "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell

  2867. "There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner." - Dean Lewis

  2868. "I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life." - Omar Sy

  2869. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  2870. "If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game." - Scott Adams

  2871. "I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa." - Doug Jones

  2872. "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile." - Arlen Specter

  2873. "A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  2874. "Nothing fails like success." - Lincoln Steffens

  2875. "We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible." - Peter Agre

  2876. "I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first." - Gemma Collins

  2877. "For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums." - Barry Manilow

  2878. "Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy." - Antonio Brown

  2879. "One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!" - Mac DeMarco

  2880. "New Year's Day is every man's birthday." - Charles Lamb

  2881. "For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas." - Johnny Mathis

  2882. "Surround yourself with positive people." - Melanie Fiona

  2883. "God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from." - Erwin McManus

  2884. "One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with." - David Cameron

  2885. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  2886. "The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born." - Elayne Boosler

  2887. "When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression." - Jimmy Somerville

  2888. "My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play." - J. J. Watt

  2889. "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson

  2890. "The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day." - Ryan Hall

  2891. "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." - Buddha

  2892. "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states." - Arthur Godfrey

  2893. "Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it)." - Rick Perlstein

  2894. "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." - W. Clement Stone

  2895. "I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel." - Shashi Tharoor

  2896. "My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business." - Travis Scott

  2897. "I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I." - Abbi Jacobson

  2898. "There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life." - Karisma Kapoor

  2899. "I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like." - Kirstin Maldonado

  2900. "Every failure is a step to success." - William Whewell

  2901. "The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined." - Allen Johnson

  2902. "Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here." - Bill Rancic

  2903. "A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it - and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a 'dirty bird.' She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it." - Wesley Morris

  2904. "Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success." - Paul J. Meyer

  2905. "It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

  2906. "It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction." - Kelli O'Hara

  2907. "They always win who side with God." - Frederick William Faber

  2908. "Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me." - Elvis Presley

  2909. "The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey." - Andrae Crouch

  2910. "The sun is new each day." - Heraclitus

  2911. "I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'" - John Wesley

  2912. "When all else fails, trust God." - David Robinson

  2913. "I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas." - Paula Hawkins

  2914. "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement." - Marcus Garvey

  2915. "More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts." - Travis Bradberry

  2916. "I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties." - Lil Pump

  2917. "It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success." - Tobias Lutke

  2918. "Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  2919. "I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy." - Jonathan Kozol

  2920. "I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet." - Joel Robuchon

  2921. "An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same." - Daniel Kahneman

  2922. "I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in." - Roger Clemens

  2923. "You change your life by changing your heart." - Max Lucado

  2924. "You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community." - Israel Folau

  2925. "The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment." - Marla Gibbs

  2926. "If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive." - Tom Landry

  2927. "People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  2928. "The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right." - Paul Downs Colaizzo

  2929. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

  2930. "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama

  2931. "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God." - Smokey Robinson

  2932. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  2933. "I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation." - Lake Bell

  2934. "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler

  2935. "I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown." - Finn Wolfhard

  2936. "My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly." - Heart Evangelista

  2937. "If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear." - Ayrton Senna

  2938. "When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much." - Adam Carolla

  2939. "Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain." - Amanda Lindhout

  2940. "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding

  2941. "Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons." - Emile Durkheim

  2942. "I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving." - Wylie Dufresne

  2943. "I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God." - Thomas Mallon

  2944. "If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'" - Sarah Kay

  2945. "In my opinion, love is not about gender, it's not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries." - Bill Kaulitz

  2946. "I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity." - Martin Seligman

  2947. "Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success." - William J. H. Boetcker

  2948. "In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source." - Reinhard Bonnke

  2949. "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." - Walter Pater

  2950. "The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life,' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year." - Terry Zwigoff

  2951. "Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on." - Paula Abdul

  2952. "For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted." - John C. Maxwell

  2953. "My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday." - Michael Ashcroft

  2954. "Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin." - Joseph Prince

  2955. "God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace." - Trevor Huddleston

  2956. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  2957. "I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive." - Robin S. Sharma

  2958. "If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals." - Lou Holtz

  2959. "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways." - Maxine Hong Kingston

  2960. "Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!" - Jeanne Marie Laskas

  2961. "Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success." - Charles Kennedy

  2962. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." - Thomas Paine

  2963. "As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release." - Jackson Browne

  2964. "I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements." - Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

  2965. "No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world." - Rob Dyrdek

  2966. "The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor." - Donovan

  2967. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  2968. "We fall forward to succeed." - Mary Kay Ash

  2969. "We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents." - Steve Garvey

  2970. "A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." - Henry Hazlitt

  2971. "I have always felt like I am a positive player." - K. L. Rahul

  2972. "I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success." - Robbie Williams

  2973. "Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls." - William Pennington

  2974. "My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday." - David Ulevitch

  2975. "My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one." - Jim Beaver

  2976. "I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!" - Twinkle Khanna

  2977. "Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases." - Guy Fieri

  2978. "I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way." - Kristin Kreuk

  2979. "If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned." - Allu Arjun

  2980. "You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." - Zig Ziglar

  2981. "We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride." - Sonya Walger

  2982. "You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing." - Nina Hagen

  2983. "I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens." - Matthew Gray Gubler

  2984. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  2985. "Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence." - Patrick Lencioni

  2986. "My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot." - Fred Armisen

  2987. "Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish." - Billy Graham

  2988. "There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'" - Brie Larson

  2989. "By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time." - Sherwin B. Nuland

  2990. "My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business." - Travis Scott

  2991. "Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it." - The Ultimate Warrior

  2992. "I've done yoga, and it's fun, but I'm not the kind of person that can wake up and do it every morning. It's like, I have to be in the mood." - Lily-Rose Depp

  2993. "There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people." - Janine di Giovanni

  2994. "Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society." - Pratibha Patil

  2995. "You keep the faith, and with God, all things are possible." - Mike Lindell

  2996. "The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  2997. "I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank." - Samantha Barks

  2998. "There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God." - Peter Steele

  2999. "Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays." - Devon Windsor

  3000. "When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn." - Aidan Gillen

  3001. "I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family." - Matt Walsh

  3002. "I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits." - Ray Allen

  3003. "Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization." - Shirin Ebadi

  3004. "I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  3005. "There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles

  3006. "I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do." - Kelly Slater

  3007. "There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best." - Cristiano Ronaldo

  3008. "Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish." - Akhil Sharma

  3009. "I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations." - Q-Tip

  3010. "The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time." - Pope Benedict XVI

  3011. "Coffee... The caffeine in your morning coffee stops an enzyme called amylase from working correctly, which is located in your mouth and gut, and breaks down starchy carbs." - Eddie Hall

  3012. "I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos." - Jill Clayburgh

  3013. "Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed." - Blaise Pascal

  3014. "Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas time. People play Mariah Carey Christmas songs... What else do you need in life?" - Milo Yiannopoulos

  3015. "I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town." - Scott Bakula

  3016. "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu

  3017. "Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world." - Kary Mullis

  3018. "I like to be as positive and as peaceful as possible, but reality says, you know, sometimes you get mad, sometimes you get antsy, sometimes you get aggravated." - Musiq Soulchild

  3019. "When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches." - Julian Edelman

  3020. "Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through." - Ciara

  3021. "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't." - Morrissey

  3022. "We work very closely with HSN's buying team, to ensure that our products and demonstrations are as exciting, educational and as inspirational as possible." - Sara Davies

  3023. "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been." - Bobby Jindal

  3024. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

  3025. "You have to know why you get up every morning." - Dan Buettner

  3026. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  3027. "I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up." - Nas

  3028. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  3029. "A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation." - Thom Tillis

  3030. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  3031. "I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion." - Naomie Harris

  3032. "Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers." - Kevin Plank

  3033. "The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy." - Saskia de Brauw

  3034. "I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes." - Bill Engvall

  3035. "We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens." - Jay Parini

  3036. "When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls." - Michael Huffington

  3037. "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." - Lao Tzu

  3038. "Halloween is my favorite holiday. It's like my Christmas." - Tech N9ne

  3039. "Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!" - Zayn Malik

  3040. "My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both." - Lily Collins

  3041. "I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die." - Lee Trevino

  3042. "Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles." - Will Carling

  3043. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley

  3044. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere

  3045. "I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do." - Mary Pope Osborne

  3046. "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." - Les Brown

  3047. "Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer." - Monica Johnson

  3048. "The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking." - Deepak Chopra

  3049. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  3050. "I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain't got no guidance, you can't do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me." - Lil Durk

  3051. "I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad." - Brian J. White

  3052. "I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed." - Big Freedia

  3053. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  3054. "I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year." - Tom Brady

  3055. "Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence." - Elias Canetti

  3056. "As more and more Americans spend their earliest hours scrolling through news alerts and weather forecasts on their smartphones and tablets, morning shows have to adapt, too. And their biggest competitive advantage may be that, unlike an iPhone, they offer some form of companionship." - Brian Stelter

  3057. "To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too." - Shinzo Abe

  3058. "When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions." - Poo Bear

  3059. "We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions." - William McDonough

  3060. "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." - Robertson Davies

  3061. "I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do." - Dwayne Johnson

  3062. "There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3063. "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" - C. S. Lewis

  3064. "I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking." - Steve Albini

  3065. "The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover." - Karen Salmansohn

  3066. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine

  3067. "In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money." - Halsey

  3068. "Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai

  3069. "I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood." - Max Muller

  3070. "I try not to be influenced by success or popularity." - Suga

  3071. "There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry." - Louis Theroux

  3072. "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success." - Sigmund Freud

  3073. "I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period." - Albert Bandura

  3074. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  3075. "I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal." - Karla Crome

  3076. "Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head." - Ryan Lochte

  3077. "God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends." - Ethel Watts Mumford

  3078. "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God." - Billy Graham

  3079. "My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate." - Rory O'Malley

  3080. "I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up." - Johnny Vegas

  3081. "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." - Charlotte Bronte

  3082. "The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record." - KRS-One

  3083. "I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win." - Mary J. Blige

  3084. "The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience." - Orson F. Whitney

  3085. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  3086. "When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City." - Steve Burns

  3087. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  3088. "Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages." - Niall Ferguson

  3089. "Only God can look at somebody's heart." - Joel Osteen

  3090. "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." - Stephen Hawking

  3091. "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." - John Wooden

  3092. "If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself." - Kris Kristofferson

  3093. "Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan." - Charles Stanley

  3094. "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." - Thomas J. Watson

  3095. "There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success." - Phil Knight

  3096. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  3097. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

  3098. "You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God." - Saint Stephen

  3099. "No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!" - Joyce Meyer

  3100. "I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model." - David Cassidy

  3101. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  3102. "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." - Erskine Bowles

  3103. "If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." - Pope Francis

  3104. "My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That's how I got the name." - Lil Peep

  3105. "My birthday is in November, so I think I'm a Scorpio? I'm not even sure!" - Ryan Hurd

  3106. "If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work." - Bruce Lipton

  3107. "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig." - Marcus Aurelius

  3108. "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits." - Gustav Klimt

  3109. "The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do." - Deborah Norville

  3110. "Do your best to spread positive messages." - Stephanie McMahon

  3111. "My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world." - Casey Wilson

  3112. "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt

  3113. "To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters." - Brenda Song

  3114. "There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you." - Ricky Williams

  3115. "Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums." - Brendon Urie

  3116. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  3117. "All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction." - Richard P. Feynman

  3118. "I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions." - Traci Bingham

  3119. "I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia." - David H. Murdock

  3120. "To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin." - Donatella Versace

  3121. "Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about." - Douglas Brinkley

  3122. "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked." - Anais Nin

  3123. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  3124. "Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person." - Alana Stewart

  3125. "We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities." - William Griffith Wilson

  3126. "I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups." - Jennifer Love Hewitt

  3127. "My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married." - Kirstin Maldonado

  3128. "I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family." - Gerry Cooney

  3129. "We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive." - Jeff Miller

  3130. "I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous." - Rachel Khoo

  3131. "There is a myth that Rahman sir only works at night. He works through the day and night, so it depends what time slot you end up working with him. Besides nights, I have sung for him in the morning and at noon, too. I think he's the first composer to work at night, and that's why it's spoken about so much." - Chinmayi

  3132. "All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race." - Kanye West

  3133. "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh." - Benny Hinn

  3134. "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul." - Caroline Kennedy

  3135. "I couldn't be more proud of my little sister and the mother she is and am also incredibly proud of my mom and the huge influence she's had on myself, my sisters, and now her grandchildren." - Natalya Neidhart

  3136. "I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of." - T.I.

  3137. "In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive." - Gloria Estefan

  3138. "When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me." - Amy Robach

  3139. "One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity." - Steve Jurvetson

  3140. "My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older." - SZA

  3141. "I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you." - Snoh Aalegra

  3142. "Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person." - Kapil Dev

  3143. "The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection." - Henri Nouwen

  3144. "I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino." - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  3145. "This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good." - Anne Frank

  3146. "There will always be different opinions. Some might argue you should retire after a big success and others that the best time is after a big defeat." - Toni Kroos

  3147. "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness." - Aldous Huxley

  3148. "I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back." - Trisha Yearwood

  3149. "I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious." - Mika

  3150. "Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living." - Gilbert Parker

  3151. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  3152. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  3153. "If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too." - Ridley Scott

  3154. "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do." - Martin Lawrence

  3155. "A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful." - Steve Harvey

  3156. "In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album." - Smokey Robinson

  3157. "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs." - Diane Abbott

  3158. "You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again." - Nicole Scherzinger

  3159. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  3160. "I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself." - Mia Hamm

  3161. "Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely." - Marcia Gay Harden

  3162. "The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science." - Sam Harris

  3163. "Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God." - Kelly Rowland

  3164. "It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece." - Big Sean

  3165. "Music is one field where your caste and religion is not important. People accept you so long as you can move them. It is a medium that allows you to fly beyond your caste." - Rajiv Menon

  3166. "Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect." - Shaquille O'Neal

  3167. "On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say." - Charles Stanley

  3168. "When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day." - Lynda Resnick

  3169. "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." - Richard Roeper

  3170. "A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed." - Paul Engle

  3171. "At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes." - Desiigner

  3172. "My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore." - Rich Swann

  3173. "My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish." - Jencarlos Canela

  3174. "John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer." - Robert Dallek

  3175. "There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love." - Charles Stanley

  3176. "My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible." - John W. Rogers, Jr.

  3177. "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher

  3178. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  3179. "The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings." - Radhanath Swami

  3180. "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus

  3181. "Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge." - Lewis Howes

  3182. "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it." - Elie Wiesel

  3183. "God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease." - Bernie Siegel

  3184. "My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young." - Paulina Porizkova

  3185. "Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'" - Sean Covey

  3186. "My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque." - Denzel Washington

  3187. "I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in." - Roger Clemens

  3188. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  3189. "When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it's always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  3190. "With the pandemic crushing the world, I pray for everyone's health and well-being. I wish the world heals fast. Every morning I wake up with the hope that a vaccine gets invented soon to combat Covid-19." - Koel Mallick

  3191. "It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver." - Betty White

  3192. "I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips." - Macaulay Culkin

  3193. "Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters." - Anthea Butler

  3194. "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." - Meister Eckhart

  3195. "I have a certain comfort with the darkness now because it's been so relevant in my life for so long, with my mom being sick and finally passing and the people changing as you get bigger and bigger. So 'A Certain Comfort' is about that. You can bring all the evil you want - I'ma make it disappear." - Tech N9ne

  3196. "I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started hearing this woman screaming my full name at three in the morning, every night. Finally, on the seventh or eighth night, she screamed it again, and I woke up." - Zak Bagans

  3197. "A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning." - Carl Jung

  3198. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln

  3199. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  3200. "My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what." - Mandy Moore

  3201. "I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." - Benjamin Franklin

  3202. "My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse." - Taylor Dayne

  3203. "My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?" - Labrinth

  3204. "Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling." - Naveen Jain

  3205. "I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not." - Ed Asner

  3206. "My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'" - Candace Cameron Bure

  3207. "God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record." - Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  3208. "I found myself in a meeting on my 13th birthday, which I really had no idea the enormity of, but I was in a meeting with the CEO of Atlantic Records, who sort of signed me right then and there as I was playing guitar for him." - Cody Simpson

  3209. "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference." - Edmund Burke

  3210. "International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports." - Ash Sarkar

  3211. "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." - Algernon Charles Swinburne

  3212. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry Ward Beecher

  3213. "I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be." - Ranbir Kapoor

  3214. "I always carry snacks in my bag. It's a good habit to have now that I am a mom." - Dana Bash

  3215. "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." - Helen Keller

  3216. "I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was." - Tabatha Coffey

  3217. "I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas." - Hans-Ulrich Obrist

  3218. "I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday." - Stanley Druckenmiller

  3219. "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

  3220. "My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked." - Melissa Leo

  3221. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  3222. "I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed." - Dolly Parton

  3223. "I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves." - Drake Bell

  3224. "God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul." - Jean Paul

  3225. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  3226. "Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose." - Anne Reid

  3227. "For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train." - Dwayne Johnson

  3228. "I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!" - Phillip Phillips

  3229. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  3230. "To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me." - Andrea Bocelli

  3231. "I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play." - Herb Alpert

  3232. "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass." - Ron Jaworski

  3233. "Success unshared is failure." - John Paul DeJoria

  3234. "I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling." - Marcus Brigstocke

  3235. "In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money." - Halsey

  3236. "I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love." - Charlie Puth

  3237. "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate." - Celine Dion

  3238. "It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture." - Wangari Maathai

  3239. "Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market." - Debi Mazar

  3240. "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." - Stephen Graham Jones

  3241. "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties." - Lance Bass

  3242. "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac

  3243. "I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me." - Colin Morgan

  3244. "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding

  3245. "Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing." - Tom Walker

  3246. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy

  3247. "In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears." - Paul Harris

  3248. "Wonder is the basis of worship." - Thomas Carlyle

  3249. "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker

  3250. "I exercise six days a week for one hour in the morning." - Akkineni Nagarjuna

  3251. "We are never defeated unless we give up on God." - Ronald Reagan

  3252. "God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it." - Andre Weil

  3253. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

  3254. "I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me." - Moon Unit Zappa

  3255. "My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily." - Sarah Koenig

  3256. "I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance." - TobyMac

  3257. "I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie." - Colin Trevorrow

  3258. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

  3259. "For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed." - Chris Evans

  3260. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  3261. "I get up every morning and say, 'Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.'" - Mr. T

  3262. "I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination." - Jewell Parker Rhodes

  3263. "My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom." - Grace Potter

  3264. "My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood." - Doja Cat

  3265. "One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'" - Brene Brown

  3266. "Honestly, I've always been a very positive person and I maintained that even when my family tested COVID positive or when I gave birth in the middle of a pandemic." - Koel Mallick

  3267. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  3268. "During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her." - Kendra Wilkinson

  3269. "When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all." - Shawn Amos

  3270. "The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail." - David O. Selznick

  3271. "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both." - Shia LaBeouf

  3272. "No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world." - Rob Dyrdek

  3273. "It's really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day - 100% guaranteed." - Jocko Willink

  3274. "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." - Phillips Brooks

  3275. "Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3276. "We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like." - Honor Harger

  3277. "Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success." - Paul J. Meyer

  3278. "One night I couldn't sleep at three in the morning and I thought, I'm going to color-coordinate my closet. And I did. There's a whole system. It goes from white to black and then all the colors in the middle. Then it goes by tank tops to T-shirts to long sleeves, and then it goes to the next color. Then it goes to sweaters the same way." - Madison Keys

  3279. "Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober." - Jamie Lee Curtis

  3280. "We Indians are musical- and dance-minded people. If a child is born or on a wedding, birthday, we dance. But when a song starts unreasonably, it irritates me." - Waheeda Rehman

  3281. "My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning." - Mary Quant

  3282. "I was born on Dev Anand's birthday so I believe... the older I get, the better I become." - Chunky Pandey

  3283. "Jesu's walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band's 2009 album 'Infinity' has its bleak moments, but that album's single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it's over." - Anthony Fantano

  3284. "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you." - Samuel Goldwyn

  3285. "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" - Jennifer Aniston

  3286. "I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant." - Nia Vardalos

  3287. "But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross." - Bono

  3288. "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." - Tom Waits

  3289. "PUMA has been an iconic name in the fashion world for decades, their ability to remain at the top of the game in not only sportswear, but in culture and fashion is inspirational." - Yo Gotti

  3290. "It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success." - George Washington Carver

  3291. "My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day." - Demi Lovato

  3292. "A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year." - Penny Jordan

  3293. "Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth." - Anthony Carmona

  3294. "My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know." - Elijah Cummings

  3295. "Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families." - Melissa Bean

  3296. "For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums." - Barry Manilow

  3297. "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams." - Ben Carson

  3298. "It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs." - Kathy Najimy

  3299. "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions." - Stephen Harper

  3300. "Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come." - Dwayne Johnson

  3301. "Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion." - Ambrose Bierce

  3302. "Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life." - Janine di Giovanni

  3303. "Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you." - Ryan Reynolds

  3304. "When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own." - Dan Levy

  3305. "Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli

  3306. "I learned to forget everything. To concentrate on my music and thank God for all good moments. Because the positive attracts the positive. You must work, work and work to get the most out of it." - Anuel AA

  3307. "I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas." - James McAvoy

  3308. "French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism." - Rashid al-Ghannushi

  3309. "My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck." - Dana Perino

  3310. "Faith is love taking the form of aspiration." - William Ellery Channing

  3311. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  3312. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

  3313. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

  3314. "There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better." - Allan Hamilton

  3315. "When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns." - Michelle Obama

  3316. "I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." - Bertrand Russell

  3317. "With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me." - Rodney Dangerfield

  3318. "It's much easier for the vegan to remain at home and do their own Christmas dinner. That way, you can enjoy your food without someone making some hilarious comment about your stuffed pepper." - Romesh Ranganathan

  3319. "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals." - Jim Rohn

  3320. "Sex is God's joke on human beings." - Bette Davis

  3321. "I want to come across as a positive person." - Greta Scacchi

  3322. "I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit." - Chris March

  3323. "I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic." - Denis Thatcher

  3324. "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most." - Jenson Button

  3325. "My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way." - Howard Graham Buffett

  3326. "I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?" - Joey Jordison

  3327. "'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain." - Mason Ramsey

  3328. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  3329. "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." - Amy Grant

  3330. "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." - Larry Ellison

  3331. "I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso." - Khalid

  3332. "The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain." - Shawn Achor

  3333. "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will." - Jonathan Edwards

  3334. "So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush." - Bonnie Tyler

  3335. "Let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette

  3336. "My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home." - Will Hurd

  3337. "She's very loving. That's my family. That's Michelle Lambert. She is my mom." - Jimmy Butler

  3338. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  3339. "Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think." - Andrew Neil

  3340. "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful." - Margaret Mead

  3341. "It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine." - William Wyler

  3342. "The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey." - Andrae Crouch

  3343. "Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats." - Amos Bronson Alcott

  3344. "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." - Tony Robbins

  3345. "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take." - Christopher Reeve

  3346. "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush." - John Gibbon

  3347. "My mom has always been beside me, always telling me what's right and what's not, guiding me through it all, keeping me away from bad company and from bad habits." - Karan Patel

  3348. "Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food." - Bob Harper

  3349. "I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We hang out. We go to different cities together. We like the same music. I think that's why he appreciates his mom and me so much - we treat him like a friend." - Jo Koy

  3350. "With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all." - Mani Ratnam

  3351. "You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good." - Hans Bender

  3352. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

  3353. "My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative." - Queen Latifah

  3354. "With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that." - Sean Paul

  3355. "We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'" - Vicki Lawrence

  3356. "The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty." - Sasha Velour

  3357. "Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive." - Rich Brian

  3358. "It never gets old seeing somebody do something positive for somebody else." - Xzibit

  3359. "On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic." - Maisie Williams

  3360. "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God." - Pope Francis

  3361. "The one thing that I know is that you win with good people." - Don Shula

  3362. "People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail." - Bob Newhart

  3363. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  3364. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3365. "For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that." - Neil Jackson

  3366. "No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans." - James Mattis

  3367. "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  3368. "Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  3369. "I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song." - Patty Smyth

  3370. "I expect that I will still wake up every morning and ponder the choice I have made to speak my mind about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. It is a pattern that I have grown accustomed to." - Jamal Khashoggi

  3371. "Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May." - Michael Dirda

  3372. "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." - Soren Kierkegaard

  3373. "Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow." - Penelope Keith

  3374. "I constantly peed in my pants up until the 8th grade and wore an extra-large sailor uniform from kindergarten to 8th grade because my mom was scared I'd grow out of it. So I learned to make fun of myself at school and summer camp." - Ali Wong

  3375. "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." - Ben Stein

  3376. "A mom can't afford to be sick." - Tamra Davis

  3377. "Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas." - Natalie Massenet

  3378. "I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me." - Dove Cameron

  3379. "I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better." - Sophie

  3380. "We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success." - Matthew McConaughey

  3381. "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not." - James Russell Lowell

  3382. "I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing." - Bobby Keys

  3383. "I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney." - Kate Middleton

  3384. "I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun." - Lando Norris

  3385. "Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  3386. "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business." - Jeff Bezos

  3387. "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

  3388. "Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams." - Harlan Ellison

  3389. "Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym." - Rodney King

  3390. "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties." - Lance Bass

  3391. "We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day." - Lacey Chabert

  3392. "Honestly, I've always been a very positive person and I maintained that even when my family tested COVID positive or when I gave birth in the middle of a pandemic." - Koel Mallick

  3393. "I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again." - Ben Hogan

  3394. "God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad." - Feisal Abdul Rauf

  3395. "Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do." - Bill Maher

  3396. "The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change." - Jess Phillips

  3397. "God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet." - Neale Donald Walsch

  3398. "My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down." - Chesty Puller

  3399. "I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny." - Tim Howard

  3400. "Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not." - Bari Weiss

  3401. "Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective." - Jen Lilley

  3402. "Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year." - Victor Borge

  3403. "Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in." - Marcelene Cox

  3404. "I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion." - Gene Robinson

  3405. "It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive." - Jimin

  3406. "I bought my mom a car for Christmas. I don't even own my own car." - Perez Hilton

  3407. "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  3408. "I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me." - Rudy Ray Moore

  3409. "In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society." - Henry David Thoreau

  3410. "My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart." - Lucas Till

  3411. "I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing." - Conor Oberst

  3412. "I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey." - Wesley Morris

  3413. "I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make." - Meek Mill

  3414. "You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart." - Lights

  3415. "God's mercy is fresh and new every morning." - Joyce Meyer

  3416. "Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational." - Andris Nelsons

  3417. "Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition." - Fred Melamed

  3418. "I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved." - Pierce Brosnan

  3419. "My mom, she's still always there for me. Always." - David Ortiz

  3420. "I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people." - Bryan Clay

  3421. "Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person." - Kellie Pickler

  3422. "Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society." - Bill Gates

  3423. "We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work." - Kim Raver

  3424. "I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need." - Renata Tebaldi

  3425. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

  3426. "My message is that God is a good God." - Joel Osteen

  3427. "I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith." - Brian Littrell

  3428. "Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason." - Ben Bernanke

  3429. "I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen." - Gabriel Iglesias

  3430. "I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing." - Mark Wahlberg

  3431. "When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write." - Ernest Hemingway

  3432. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  3433. "I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement." - Carrie Coon

  3434. "Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world." - Kirstin Maldonado

  3435. "Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense." - Dionne Warwick

  3436. "I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning." - Harlan Ellison

  3437. "We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale." - Christopher Nolan

  3438. "At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake." - Goran Ivanisevic

  3439. "Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen." - Sean Lennon

  3440. "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

  3441. "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials." - Meryl Streep

  3442. "I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I'm being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else." - Todrick Hall

  3443. "Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power." - Julian Casablancas

  3444. "In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered." - Barry Humphries

  3445. "Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop." - Lucy Carless

  3446. "Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important." - Nick Saban

  3447. "New Year's Day is every man's birthday." - Charles Lamb

  3448. "I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go." - Tracy Chapman

  3449. "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

  3450. "Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive." - E. O. Wilson

  3451. "On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles." - Mary Antin

  3452. "My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it." - Anne Lamott

  3453. "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive." - Yoko Ono

  3454. "Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before." - Wesley Sneijder

  3455. "Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'" - Sloane Crosley

  3456. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

  3457. "Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions." - Joel Osteen

  3458. "Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago." - Ben Feldman

  3459. "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russell

  3460. "There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me." - Cobie Smulders

  3461. "I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem." - Kylie Jenner

  3462. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  3463. "I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward." - Monty Don

  3464. "A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation." - Thom Tillis

  3465. "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett

  3466. "That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward." - Jocko Willink

  3467. "As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  3468. "I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good." - Tom Rath

  3469. "I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.'" - Dee Rees

  3470. "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin

  3471. "When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead." - Sean Hayes

  3472. "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top." - Margaret Thatcher

  3473. "Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house." - Elizabeth Warren

  3474. "A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world." - James Faulkner

  3475. "It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

  3476. "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all." - Harry Seidler

  3477. "Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory." - Bayley

  3478. "My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings." - Dan Gable

  3479. "The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life." - Phoebe Snow

  3480. "When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with." - Goldie Hawn

  3481. "It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it." - Lindsey Vonn

  3482. "Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet." - Edward VIII

  3483. "Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done." - Ryan Zinke

  3484. "I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger." - Vijender Singh

  3485. "I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off. Talk about positive reinforcement!" - Heidi Roizen

  3486. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  3487. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

  3488. "I always see everything in a positive light." - Karishma Tanna

  3489. "There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me." - Chris Cornell

  3490. "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

  3491. "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." - Wade Boggs

  3492. "During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  3493. "'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success." - Rachel Joyce

  3494. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  3495. "Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it." - David Hockney

  3496. "The true success is the person who invented himself." - Al Goldstein

  3497. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  3498. "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." - John Cheever

  3499. "We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit." - Angela Duckworth

  3500. "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." - Anais Nin

  3501. "I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation." - Simon Callow

  3502. "The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational." - Asma Jahangir

  3503. "When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true." - Willard Scott

  3504. "I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first." - Gemma Collins

  3505. "A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy." - Abhishek Bachchan

  3506. "The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain." - Shawn Achor

  3507. "When I wake up in the morning, do I think I'm a role model? Yes. I'm not trying to have a pristine image, because a real role model shows you to the good and ugly." - KRS-One

  3508. "There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album." - Isaac Hanson

  3509. "You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere." - D. H. Lawrence

  3510. "I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house." - Josie Bissett

  3511. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  3512. "We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work." - Kim Raver

  3513. "I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love." - Olivia De Havilland

  3514. "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther

  3515. "My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there's nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic." - Ivanka Trump

  3516. "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz

  3517. "There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions." - Frank Sinatra

  3518. "Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would marry. My brother just sort of evaded, and my dad lived far away, so I was left alone." - Rosa Salazar

  3519. "I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move." - Beeban Kidron

  3520. "Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun." - Sebastian Thrun

  3521. "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." - Alfred Adler

  3522. "My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles." - Emma Stone

  3523. "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young

  3524. "God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection." - Alfred Adler

  3525. "I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go." - Lee Trevino

  3526. "For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series." - Charles Best

  3527. "Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend." - David Joseph Schwartz

  3528. "Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'" - Chevy Chase

  3529. "Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills." - Sheryl Sandberg

  3530. "Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied." - Ruby Wax

  3531. "I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out." - Drake

  3532. "To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need." - L. Lionel Kendrick

  3533. "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

  3534. "I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun." - Cat Cora

  3535. "I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'" - Kurtis Blow

  3536. "I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday." - Mary H.K. Choi

  3537. "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

  3538. "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." - Emile Zola

  3539. "I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist." - Ada Yonath

  3540. "I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them." - Lee Trevino

  3541. "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way." - Thomas Aquinas

  3542. "Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success." - Jane McGonigal

  3543. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  3544. "I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing." - Ella Henderson

  3545. "One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God." - Ramakrishna

  3546. "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift." - Liam Neeson

  3547. "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it." - Camille Paglia

  3548. "In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions." - Brenton Thwaites

  3549. "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support." - Ellen DeGeneres

  3550. "Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I'm still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that." - Angie Thomas

  3551. "I am someone who tunes into more ethical journalism, and I'm not someone who dwells a lot on the negative, so I think I'd rather focus on the positive and forge ahead." - Terri Irwin

  3552. "My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised." - Robin Wright

  3553. "When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe." - Marley Dias

  3554. "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound." - Chelsea Clinton

  3555. "I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children." - Keiynan Lonsdale

  3556. "I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood." - Rip Torn

  3557. "My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal." - Lorde

  3558. "I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday." - Cathy Guisewite

  3559. "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring." - Donatella Versace

  3560. "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." - Edmond de Goncourt

  3561. "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working." - Alice Hoffman

  3562. "My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha." - B. R. Ambedkar

  3563. "First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world." - Vivica A. Fox

  3564. "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell

  3565. "The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts." - David Friedrich Strauss

  3566. "On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold." - Tove Jansson

  3567. "They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats." - Chuck Feeney

  3568. "I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation." - Wayne Dyer

  3569. "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." - Don Rickles

  3570. "A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced." - Jordan Peterson

  3571. "I don't necessarily believe in organized religion." - Will Smith

  3572. "I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk." - Jake Roberts

  3573. "Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation." - Pierre Nanterme

  3574. "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may." - Joseph Lancaster

  3575. "Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you." - Marilyn Monroe

  3576. "When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual." - Frank Herbert

  3577. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  3578. "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'" - David Sedaris

  3579. "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - e. e. cummings

  3580. "When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee." - Charlie Puth

  3581. "One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas." - Bailee Madison

  3582. "Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction." - Daniel Levitin

  3583. "I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones." - Chris Pavone

  3584. "Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that." - Bill O'Reilly

  3585. "I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me." - Jayne Mansfield

  3586. "I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God." - Tim Kennedy

  3587. "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." - Tom Waits

  3588. "My dad is really the reason I have this hard work ethic. I can fully remember him leaving home at 5 o'clock in the morning and not coming back until midnight." - Mustafa Ali

  3589. "I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  3590. "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics." - David Attenborough

  3591. "Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks." - Hilarie Burton

  3592. "I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life." - Laila Rouass

  3593. "My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym." - Jacob Dalton

  3594. "Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market." - Debi Mazar

  3595. "It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas." - Bill Nighy

  3596. "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George Burns

  3597. "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross." - William Barclay

  3598. "I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that." - Howie Mandel

  3599. "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way." - Robert Kiyosaki

  3600. "My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief." - Conor McGregor

  3601. "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it." - Camille Paglia

  3602. "You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive." - Billy Butler

  3603. "My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked." - Daryl Hannah

  3604. "It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution." - Annie Dillard

  3605. "When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God." - T. B. Joshua

  3606. "In our family, and not just us but even with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we celebrate every festival - be it Christmas, Easter, Eid, Diwali or our birthdays." - Ananya Panday

  3607. "The divisiveness that threatens the fabric of our nation - whether due to race, religion, political ideology, gender, sexual orientation, or other - must end." - Tulsi Gabbard

  3608. "He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  3609. "A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles." - Jenson Button

  3610. "I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day." - John Searles

  3611. "Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly." - Frank Abagnale

  3612. "Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe." - Zooey Deschanel

  3613. "Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise." - Karl Rahner

  3614. "Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm." - Jean Paul

  3615. "No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened." - Wilma Rudolph

  3616. "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work." - Leslie Bibb

  3617. "There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas." - Jerry Falwell

  3618. "I love those who yearn for the impossible." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  3619. "I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself." - Virat Kohli

  3620. "I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours." - Kurt Vonnegut

  3621. "I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away." - Becky Lynch

  3622. "Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning." - Marlo Thomas

  3623. "I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning." - Mary Kay Andrews

  3624. "I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick." - Sarah Palin

  3625. "Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'." - Lindsay Lohan

  3626. "Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle." - Jay Shetty

  3627. "Kabir has special place for police in his heart. Whenever he sees a policeman, he wants to meet them. That's why we celebrated his birthday with a police-themed party." - Amrapali Gupta

  3628. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  3629. "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not." - Ursula K. Le Guin

  3630. "Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments." - Alain Ducasse

  3631. "Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." - Hans Christian Andersen

  3632. "I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within." - Saint Augustine

  3633. "I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God." - Christina Aguilera

  3634. "A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus." - Ann Voskamp

  3635. "God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it." - Mr. T

  3636. "For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest." - Patti Scialfa

  3637. "I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour." - Donatella Versace

  3638. "Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers." - Cat Cora

  3639. "Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect." - Shaquille O'Neal

  3640. "The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." - Edward Everett Hale

  3641. "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed." - Emily Dickinson

  3642. "Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public." - Amy Grant

  3643. "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith." - Russell M. Nelson

  3644. "It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success." - Brian Armstrong

  3645. "I want to make this world perfect." - Malala Yousafzai

  3646. "Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear." - Jay Parini

  3647. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  3648. "I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of." - Patty Loveless

  3649. "I view art as an inspirational tool." - Thomas Kincade

  3650. "Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic." - Biz Stone

  3651. "My mom always plays Madonna in the car, so I was kind of familiar with what she was into in the '80s." - Sadie Sink

  3652. "You can be experiencing the worst, most gut-wrenching grief and still laugh or feel something positive or even fall in love, and it doesn't diminish the depth and sincerity of your grief." - Jennifer Ashton

  3653. "If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve." - Bindi Irwin

  3654. "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

  3655. "For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music." - Moby

  3656. "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food." - Sandra Lee

  3657. "When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit." - Brenda Lee

  3658. "My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview." - Max Boot

  3659. "I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy." - Thandie Newton

  3660. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

  3661. "If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'" - Tom Cruise

  3662. "The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frosted Flakes because she wanted us to behave. Otherwise, we were eating shredded wheat, granola, or Grape Nuts." - Timothy Olyphant

  3663. "We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic." - Lance Burton

  3664. "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile." - Arlen Specter

  3665. "Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero." - Martin Seligman

  3666. "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work." - Leslie Bibb

  3667. "Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite." - Joe Green

  3668. "I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint." - Rodney King

  3669. "I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu." - A. R. Rahman

  3670. "At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections." - Moby

  3671. "I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do." - Kelly Slater

  3672. "I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety." - James Lasdun

  3673. "The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time." - Pope Benedict XVI

  3674. "The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do." - David Joseph Schwartz

  3675. "If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up." - Lesley Manville

  3676. "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." - William Blake

  3677. "My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years." - Adrien Brody

  3678. "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it." - Demetri Martin

  3679. "I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful." - Daniel Lyons

  3680. "I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive." - Eddie Izzard

  3681. "My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther." - SZA

  3682. "I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything." - Hit-Boy

  3683. "Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals." - David A. Bednar

  3684. "Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them." - Robert Reich

  3685. "My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." - Isaac Newton

  3686. "Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women's handbags." - A. A. Gill

  3687. "The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful." - Theodore Melfi

  3688. "I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house." - Sue Townsend

  3689. "When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean." - Isabel Lucas

  3690. "I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day." - Monica Seles

  3691. "I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music's so soulful... I think Kanye West is a genius musically." - Tika Sumpter

  3692. "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - Richard Dawkins

  3693. "My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world." - Casey Wilson

  3694. "That's what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that's the way our country is - no matter what culture you come from, you can come to Australia and practise your religion, you can practise your beliefs, and you shouldn't be judged for it." - Adam Goodes

  3695. "I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  3696. "I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5." - Brad Stevens

  3697. "As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games." - Matthew Stafford

  3698. "Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake." - Amanda Knox

  3699. "The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction." - Christian de Duve

  3700. "I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." - DJ Khaled

  3701. "My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else." - Martin Scorsese

  3702. "All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God." - Voltaire

  3703. "Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it." - Leigh-Allyn Baker

  3704. "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it." - John Ruskin

  3705. "You can never forget God. If you forget God, he's gon' forget you." - Offset

  3706. "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

  3707. "I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details." - Albert Einstein

  3708. "Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics." - Marvin Olasky

  3709. "I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself." - Tyler, The Creator

  3710. "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  3711. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

  3712. "I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives." - Cat Deeley

  3713. "If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive." - Tom Landry

  3714. "I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural." - Jennifer Aniston

  3715. "I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority." - Herbert Read

  3716. "I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie." - Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  3717. "As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker." - Annie Dillard

  3718. "I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments." - Carolyn Murphy

  3719. "As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive." - LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  3720. "I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely." - L'Wren Scott

  3721. "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Tony Robbins

  3722. "The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways." - Paul Kantner

  3723. "Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  3724. "I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor." - Joan Rivers

  3725. "You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness." - Anthony Carmona

  3726. "Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!" - Ted Allen

  3727. "Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis." - Gever Tulley

  3728. "At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life." - John Vane

  3729. "My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared." - Hailee Steinfeld

  3730. "You want to focus on the fans and on the positive energy that you receive from them." - Lance Stroll

  3731. "I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It's a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up." - Bianca Balti

  3732. "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note." - Seamus Heaney

  3733. "Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him." - Anne Graham Lotz

  3734. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  3735. "I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu." - A. R. Rahman

  3736. "My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age." - Toby Keith

  3737. "A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories." - Honore de Balzac

  3738. "Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties." - Natalie Massenet

  3739. "Oh, I'm up at 6:00 A.M. every morning because I have a lot to do. Plenty. I work out probably at, like, 8:00. I gotta eat at 6:00 so, therefore, I can workout at 8:00." - Pusha T

  3740. "I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work." - Andrew O'Hagan

  3741. "My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents." - Becky G

  3742. "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." - Golda Meir

  3743. "The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing." - Gloria Gaither

  3744. "It's obviously a blessing to be able to play on Christmas Night, the one big night everyone watches." - Matt Barnes

  3745. "Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive." - Cameron Mathison

  3746. "About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time." - Sia

  3747. "The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives." - Anita Sarkeesian

  3748. "Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people." - David Carson

  3749. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  3750. "I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play." - Shaquille O'Neal

  3751. "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life." - Moses

  3752. "I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren't necessarily accurate or aren't particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer." - Eric Nam

  3753. "The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail." - David O. Selznick

  3754. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  3755. "Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." - Ausonius

  3756. "God loves to help him who strives to help himself." - Aeschylus

  3757. "Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day." - Elvis Mitchell

  3758. "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." - Erma Bombeck

  3759. "It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and teacher's roles in 'Masaan' and 'Nil Battey Sannata' that broke the villain's mould and helped me successfully explore the other shades - be it comedy, intense, or serious - surprising the audience all the time." - Pankaj Tripathi

  3760. "Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body." - Erin Heatherton

  3761. "For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head." - Brittany Snow

  3762. "I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period." - Albert Bandura

  3763. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." - Robert Browning

  3764. "As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since." - Paul George

  3765. "I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'" - John Paul DeJoria

  3766. "Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences." - Dalai Lama

  3767. "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine

  3768. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

  3769. "I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow." - Loretta Young

  3770. "To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past." - Debbie Ford

  3771. "Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them." - Robert Reich

  3772. "My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class." - Blake Lively

  3773. "Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides." - Franklin Foer

  3774. "When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean." - Isabel Lucas

  3775. "I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else." - Tim Tebow

  3776. "My mom was the strongest woman I know." - DeAngelo Williams

  3777. "I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement." - Carrie Coon

  3778. "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C. S. Lewis

  3779. "I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal." - Kevin Hart

  3780. "I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man." - Hannah John-Kamen

  3781. "Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey." - Alex Noble

  3782. "You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive." - Billy Butler

  3783. "I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world." - Ryan Eggold

  3784. "I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'" - Mika Brzezinski

  3785. "I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical." - Cliff Curtis

  3786. "Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias

  3787. "Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading." - Marianne Williamson

  3788. "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." - Jesus Christ

  3789. "I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me." - Hari Nef

  3790. "I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas." - Dan Brown

  3791. "No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning." - D. L. Hughley

  3792. "Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from." - Julia Roberts

  3793. "I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all." - John Daly

  3794. "When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun." - Nicki Minaj

  3795. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  3796. "I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!" - Phillip Phillips

  3797. "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." - Molly Ivins

  3798. "It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer." - Orison Swett Marden

  3799. "I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but it's really those small things that make the big difference." - Chad Hurley

  3800. "The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time." - Lake Bell

  3801. "S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it." - Simon Fuller

  3802. "A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed." - David Joseph Schwartz

  3803. "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all." - Alan Watts

  3804. "I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning." - T. J. Thyne

  3805. "I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift." - Miranda Hart

  3806. "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker

  3807. "Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back." - Martin Yan

  3808. "Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy." - Antonio Brown

  3809. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  3810. "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." - Don Rickles

  3811. "It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral." - Fabrizio Moreira

  3812. "The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life." - Kelley O'Hara

  3813. "Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme." - Bernard Katz

  3814. "God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel." - Charles Stanley

  3815. "Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them." - Alison Sweeney

  3816. "I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program." - Christine Tsai

  3817. "What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing." - Rahul Dravid

  3818. "In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew." - Megan Mullally

  3819. "Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut." - Allison Tolman

  3820. "Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God." - Billy Graham

  3821. "I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.'" - Mira Sorvino

  3822. "The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful." - Theodore Melfi

  3823. "I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas." - Hillary Scott

  3824. "I strongly believe that love as an emotion is sufficient for a girl and a boy to be together, and these societal norms like caste, creed or religion are all man-made." - Sara Khan

  3825. "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay

  3826. "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." - Muhammad Iqbal

  3827. "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." - Vaclav Havel

  3828. "The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Lamar S. Smith

  3829. "Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread." - Marcus Samuelsson

  3830. "Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered." - Kevin Gates

  3831. "I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book." - Matthew Pearl

  3832. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." - Denis Waitley

  3833. "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" - Robert Kennedy

  3834. "I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!" - Lily Aldridge

  3835. "I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself." - Tyler, The Creator

  3836. "I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes." - Lech Walesa

  3837. "I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope." - K'naan

  3838. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  3839. "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me." - Ray Bradbury

  3840. "Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision." - Bill Hybels

  3841. "Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington." - Tim Scott

  3842. "I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects." - Judit Polgar

  3843. "My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper." - Kimberly Schlapman

  3844. "All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle." - John Hersey

  3845. "When I was younger I wish there had been more opportunities to just go out and enjoy myself. So, now that I am in a privileged position I want to try and be a positive influence if I can." - Micah Richards

  3846. "What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  3847. "Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month." - Frankie Valli

  3848. "I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun." - John John Florence

  3849. "Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence." - Ethan Coen

  3850. "God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people." - Dolly Parton

  3851. "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friedrich Nietzsche

  3852. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

  3853. "I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross." - Fergie

  3854. "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day." - George Allen, Sr.

  3855. "When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards." - Isabella Rossellini

  3856. "In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal." - Ava DuVernay

  3857. "When I was younger, I'd always cry on Christmas Day, and I didn't know why. Now I know it's because I was just overwhelmed by the togetherness." - Kate Nash

  3858. "That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt." - Hall Caine

  3859. "Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight." - Pope Benedict XVI

  3860. "It scared my mom to death when all my friends started driving. She always told me she wanted me to drive, but I think she kind of felt lucky that I didn't get my permit when all my friends did. I think that's been the hardest thing for her, watching me go out with my friends and literally drive away." - Miranda Cosgrove

  3861. "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true." - Blaise Pascal

  3862. "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power." - Alice Walker

  3863. "The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is." - Jupiter Hammon

  3864. "My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always." - Taylor Swift

  3865. "Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3866. "There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves." - Thomas S. Monson

  3867. "I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy." - Thandie Newton

  3868. "When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn." - Aidan Gillen

  3869. "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." - Theodore Roethke

  3870. "I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding." - Clint Eastwood

  3871. "It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year." - Richard E. Grant

  3872. "You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes." - Joss Whedon

  3873. "In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success." - Ben Bernanke

  3874. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  3875. "If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain." - Goldie Hawn

  3876. "It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God." - Michael Leunig

  3877. "In the morning, I might have fruit or maybe oatmeal at home, or a bagel with coffee." - Karrueche Tran

  3878. "A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson." - David Berman

  3879. "God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  3880. "Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning." - Tony Rock

  3881. "For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day." - Mercedes Schlapp

  3882. "Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it." - Natalie Portman

  3883. "So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values." - Bill Rancic

  3884. "My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!" - Sophie Kinsella

  3885. "If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology." - Jay Leno

  3886. "And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better." - Mitt Romney

  3887. "We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together." - Jay Rock

  3888. "I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch." - Carlos Mencia

  3889. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel

  3890. "I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive." - Robin S. Sharma

  3891. "I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays." - Leigh-Allyn Baker

  3892. "You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about." - Sophia Loren

  3893. "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed." - Nikos Kazantzakis

  3894. "Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so." - Stephen Leacock

  3895. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

  3896. "I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there." - Robin Trower

  3897. "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

  3898. "It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through." - Oti Mabuse

  3899. "I always want to keep my skin clean when I get up in the morning, and I use sunscreen before I go out to the field." - Christen Press

  3900. "Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight." - Lillian Hellman

  3901. "Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude." - Nigel Hamilton

  3902. "Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?" - Philip Rosenthal

  3903. "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better." - Harvey Mackay

  3904. "I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life." - Amy Sedaris

  3905. "When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe." - Marley Dias

  3906. "It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever." - Hannah Simone

  3907. "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  3908. "I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one." - Sergio Aguero

  3909. "Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  3910. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  3911. "The most direct path to success is a good job, but the road to employment for those with criminal records is often riddled with barriers. Removing those barriers would allow those with records to leave the past behind, support their families, make a positive future - and improve our economy." - Bob Casey, Jr.

  3912. "Trust in God - she will provide." - Emmeline Pankhurst

  3913. "The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational." - Cheryl James

  3914. "Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it." - Pope John Paul II

  3915. "If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost." - Paul Washer

  3916. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  3917. "I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values." - Al Sharpton

  3918. "Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me." - Gene Luen Yang

  3919. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  3920. "As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since." - Paul George

  3921. "God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  3922. "My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything." - Willam Belli

  3923. "Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands." - Zig Ziglar

  3924. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine

  3925. "People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth." - River Viiperi

  3926. "BJP's agenda was all wrong. They claimed that India was shining. Is it a utensil which will shine when rubbed? They fooled the people by these slogans and tried to divide them on the lines of religion." - Asrani

  3927. "My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love." - Mike Mills

  3928. "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring." - Donatella Versace

  3929. "I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley." - Ashley Graham

  3930. "My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what." - Mandy Moore

  3931. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  3932. "Victoria's Secret should highlight real women that actually purchase their clothing. I would love for them to start featuring more real bodies and diverse women. Victoria's Secret has the ability to tell people, 'It's okay,' when they wake up in the morning. They have the ability to change lives." - Rain Dove

  3933. "We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together." - Jay Rock

  3934. "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen." - Lee Iacocca

  3935. "The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong." - Rick Perry

  3936. "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion." - John Maynard Keynes

  3937. "A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots." - Ashley Benson

  3938. "I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale." - Robert H. Schuller

  3939. "We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries." - Nikki Haley

  3940. "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith

  3941. "'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success." - Rachel Joyce

  3942. "There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability." - Robert Green

  3943. "It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress." - Jennifer Garner

  3944. "People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?" - Agnes Martin

  3945. "The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon." - John Astin

  3946. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  3947. "I played a sport for most of my adult life that required me to work on two of the biggest holidays in America, Thanksgiving and Christmas." - Mark Schlereth

  3948. "I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!" - Kelly Osbourne

  3949. "Typically, I spend a lot of time - mostly in the morning - kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I'm lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another." - David Means

  3950. "At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you." - Ben Okri

  3951. "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity." - Alfred Jarry

  3952. "I think we always need to see the positive." - Charles Leclerc

  3953. "It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive." - Jimin

  3954. "My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there." - Chamath Palihapitiya

  3955. "I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down." - John C. Reilly

  3956. "We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us." - Barbara Boxer

  3957. "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today." - Queen Elizabeth II

  3958. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  3959. "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up." - Florence Griffith Joyner

  3960. "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." - Mary C. Jones

  3961. "Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine." - Damaris Phillips

  3962. "My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice." - Banks

  3963. "Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity." - Chris Van Allsburg

  3964. "My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married." - Kirstin Maldonado

  3965. "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges." - T. D. Jakes

  3966. "Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death." - Karen Armstrong

  3967. "I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder." - Stacey Abrams

  3968. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  3969. "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  3970. "In my house, we couldn't listen to 'Love to Love You Baby.' It was way too salacious back in the day. I remember my mom would turn the station off when that song came on the radio. But, of course, I played my album to death in my bedroom, with the door closed." - LaChanze

  3971. "Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God." - Nipsey Hussle

  3972. "I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman." - Uma Thurman

  3973. "Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well." - Jacqueline Fernandez

  3974. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  3975. "The most positive men are the most credulous." - Alexander Pope

  3976. "It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter." - Vanilla Ice

  3977. "Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs." - Claire Saffitz

  3978. "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." - Molly Ivins

  3979. "My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me." - Gretchen Carlson

  3980. "More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material." - Charles Eastman

  3981. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  3982. "I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, like, he doesn't let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn't like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he's, like, dying. He's very low-key with it. He's always been like that since he was born." - Remy Ma

  3983. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  3984. "Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias

  3985. "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion." - Alexander Graham Bell

  3986. "I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there." - Robin Trower

  3987. "I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that." - Sasha Grey

  3988. "Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it." - Leigh-Allyn Baker

  3989. "I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place - my little office where it's dark and cozy - with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It's my little cocoon. There's no phone or fax or Internet. And no music." - John Grisham

  3990. "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

  3991. "There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none." - Pope Benedict XVI

  3992. "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." - Thomas Merton

  3993. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  3994. "After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question." - Stephen Harper

  3995. "The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being." - Orson Pratt

  3996. "And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over." - Delta Burke

  3997. "My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then." - Morten Harket

  3998. "I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  3999. "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  4000. "As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy." - Al Yankovic

  4001. "Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own." - Dennis Crowley

  4002. "We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases." - George M. Church

  4003. "I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light." - Ellsworth Kelly

  4004. "The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want." - Chris Pine

  4005. "I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman." - Jami Attenberg

  4006. "Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed." - Billy Graham

  4007. "I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling." - Yolanda Hadid

  4008. "My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday." - Michael Ashcroft

  4009. "I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists." - Noel Wells

  4010. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

  4011. "There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist." - Terry Pratchett

  4012. "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." - Tanya Tucker

  4013. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

  4014. "Obviously I tell myself I'm more than happy for everything that's been given to me. But if I wake up one morning and my kidney decides 'I don't fancy it today', I'm back to square one." - Andy Cole

  4015. "We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people." - Louis Farrakhan

  4016. "I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive." - Jean Alesi

  4017. "It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece." - Big Sean

  4018. "I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life." - Carrie Underwood

  4019. "You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe." - Chris Cuomo

  4020. "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night." - Chanakya

  4021. "My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it." - Blair Underwood

  4022. "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith

  4023. "Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller

  4024. "Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I strongly believe in being a positive and creative force in the protection and enhancement of the local and global environment." - Paul E. Jacobs

  4025. "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce

  4026. "Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day." - Dana White

  4027. "My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That's what I've been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun." - Ken Griffey Jr.

  4028. "I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'" - Ruth Ware

  4029. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  4030. "I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that." - Nagma

  4031. "I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit." - Helen Mirren

  4032. "My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  4033. "I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief." - Nick Cave

  4034. "In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another." - Jeff Miller

  4035. "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay

  4036. "I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel." - Shashi Tharoor

  4037. "I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off. Talk about positive reinforcement!" - Heidi Roizen

  4038. "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau

  4039. "Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man." - Elie Wiesel

  4040. "True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself." - Marcela Valladolid

  4041. "I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl." - Sandra Bullock

  4042. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  4043. "I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!" - Joe Nichols

  4044. "Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments." - Adrian Younge

  4045. "My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there." - Sebastian Roche

  4046. "I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young." - Ryan O'Neal

  4047. "There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers." - John Oliver

  4048. "Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers... and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message." - Ryan Tannehill

  4049. "Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope." - Diego Maradona

  4050. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  4051. "In Britain, politicians who openly discuss their spirituality are about as welcome as Jehovah' s Witnesses on the doorstep, and the British associate the mixture of politics and religion as a heady cocktail best reserved for the mass irrationality of Northern Ireland, Iran, Kashmir, and the Middle East." - Gavin Esler

  4052. "If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life." - Ratan Tata

  4053. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  4054. "The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology." - John Gresham Machen

  4055. "If I can be some kind of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up." - Brian Banks

  4056. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  4057. "And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time." - Jesus Christ

  4058. "I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child." - Grace Jones

  4059. "I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up." - Kirsten Dunst

  4060. "I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin." - Cameron Diaz

  4061. "Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments." - Adrian Younge

  4062. "I'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can." - Princess Nokia

  4063. "I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that." - Nagma

  4064. "Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering." - Max Carver

  4065. "My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'" - Tony Oller

  4066. "Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite." - Dick Van Dyke

  4067. "The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing." - Uzodinma Iweala

  4068. "You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition." - Nicki Minaj

  4069. "It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people." - Peter Billingsley

  4070. "Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path." - Anthony Joshua

  4071. "Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities." - Anthony Scaramucci

  4072. "Success breeds success." - Mia Hamm

  4073. "Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning." - Doug Ducey

  4074. "Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." - Jimmy Cannon

  4075. "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs." - Tony Visconti

  4076. "Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change." - Bruce Lipton

  4077. "I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I make spells in the morning when I put them on." - Alexa Chung

  4078. "What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from." - Daniel Humm

  4079. "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them." - Colin Powell

  4080. "I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow." - Loretta Young

  4081. "I joined the SDP as a founder member a few days after my 18th birthday in 1981. I was a councillor, activist and parliamentary candidate for the SDP and its successor party, the Liberal Democrats, for 14 years before joining Labour when Tony Blair became leader and abolished Labour's old clause IV - committing to general nationalisation - in 1995." - Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

  4082. "It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life." - Constance Marie

  4083. "My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence." - Chris Borland

  4084. "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." - Khalil Gibran

  4085. "Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down." - Scottie Pippen

  4086. "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." - David Hume

  4087. "It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness." - Hans Jonas

  4088. "We Indians are musical- and dance-minded people. If a child is born or on a wedding, birthday, we dance. But when a song starts unreasonably, it irritates me." - Waheeda Rehman

  4089. "I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God." - Thomas Mallon

  4090. "I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood." - Max Muller

  4091. "Success is 99 percent failure." - Soichiro Honda

  4092. "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." - David Hume

  4093. "A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself." - James Allen

  4094. "As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle." - Beth Ditto

  4095. "And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary." - Graeme Murphy

  4096. "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." - Robertson Davies

  4097. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back." - Gloria Steinem

  4098. "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." - Jesse Ventura

  4099. "The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas." - Richard Attenborough

  4100. "And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye." - Lewis Black

  4101. "Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have." - Glen Campbell

  4102. "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." - Henny Youngman

  4103. "Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection." - Nell Scovell

  4104. "Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning." - Jack Dempsey

  4105. "Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'" - Ming-Na Wen

  4106. "Think with your whole body." - Taisen Deshimaru

  4107. "My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther." - SZA

  4108. "John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer." - Robert Dallek

  4109. "Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself." - William J. H. Boetcker

  4110. "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." - Will Smith

  4111. "Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what." - Shilpa Shinde

  4112. "I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing." - Casey Kasem

  4113. "I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics." - Box Brown

  4114. "'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people." - Colin Salmon

  4115. "The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." - Jerry Falwell

  4116. "I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing." - Rachel Kushner

  4117. "The great test of life is obedience to God." - Ezra Taft Benson

  4118. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

  4119. "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." - Alfred Adler

  4120. "The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee." - Tara Lipinski

  4121. "I don't need to worry about what other people are talking about me. Instead, I focus on the people talking positive and all the positive things that I know I am doing." - Anthony Yarde

  4122. "My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death." - Cristela Alonzo

  4123. "I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference." - Linus Torvalds

  4124. "When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to jump into a new community and really learn English, assimilate, and adapt - and I saw that. I grew up in that community." - Kimberly Guilfoyle

  4125. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau

  4126. "There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success." - Phil Knight

  4127. "My mom loves saris, and when I was a child, she told me 'a girl looks good in an Indian traditional outfit.' So, somehow it stayed in my head, and I really enjoy Indian wear." - Urvashi Rautela

  4128. "I couldn't live without tea. I have two cups in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon and one in the evening - Assam with milk and sugar. It has to be leaf tea - no bags - and drunk from a china cup." - Gilbert O'Sullivan

  4129. "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." - Bill Watterson

  4130. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  4131. "Years ago, I came out with a Christmas album called 'Tinsel Time'. It was just a pet project for me, but it ended up going to number one on Amazon!" - Jen Lilley

  4132. "I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for." - Diana Lopez

  4133. "When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree." - Bill Cosby

  4134. "I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas." - Paula Hawkins

  4135. "It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something." - John Lewis

  4136. "I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift." - Mos Def

  4137. "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?" - Andrea Jung

  4138. "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." - George Eliot

  4139. "We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves." - Irina Shayk

  4140. "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence." - Stephen Covey

  4141. "Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time." - Jo Nesbo

  4142. "We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'" - Vicki Lawrence

  4143. "I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it's all about saying thank you; it's being thankful." - Jacob Tremblay

  4144. "Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up." - Camille Paglia

  4145. "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

  4146. "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." - Andy Rooney

  4147. "When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion." - Stacey Abrams

  4148. "The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Lamar S. Smith

  4149. "My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way." - Howard Graham Buffett

  4150. "I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.'" - Ginuwine

  4151. "My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control." - Dennis Haysbert

  4152. "I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M." - James Rodriguez

  4153. "Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund." - Liam Aiken

  4154. "When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th." - Gloria Stuart

  4155. "God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here." - Joel Osteen

  4156. "We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world." - Jim DeMint

  4157. "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

  4158. "Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you." - Labrinth

  4159. "My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard." - Mustard

  4160. "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush." - John Gibbon

  4161. "Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package." - Jon Katz

  4162. "Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year." - Joel Osteen

  4163. "Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed." - Josh Gad

  4164. "I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas." - Dan Brown

  4165. "The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence." - Moses Mendelssohn

  4166. "It's so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor." - Drew Scott

  4167. "I'm a night owl; I could work until 6 in the morning without even thinking about it." - Julie Plec

  4168. "It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real." - Lee Pace

  4169. "In 'White Christmas,' I wasn't the main part." - Sadie Sink

  4170. "I always try to work on my birthday." - Rashami Desai

  4171. "I'm a humanist. I always believed, even with Cirque du Soliel, that this is my way to contribute to a better world. I believe I'm very privileged, but many people face the reality when they wake up in the morning of not having food or a glass of water. Life's been good to me, and I believe you have to feed the circle of life." - Guy Laliberte

  4172. "I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you." - C. V. Raman

  4173. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  4174. "Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river." - Eckhart Tolle

  4175. "I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens." - Matthew Gray Gubler

  4176. "For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry." - Juergen Teller

  4177. "For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator." - Cheryl Hines

  4178. "When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with." - Goldie Hawn

  4179. "God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease." - Bernie Siegel

  4180. "God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing." - Reinhard Bonnke

  4181. "There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey." - Lewis Howes

  4182. "I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine." - Dave Rubin

  4183. "'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible." - Laila Ali

  4184. "I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?" - Ian St. John

  4185. "What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there." - Derek Jeter

  4186. "Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through." - Loni Love

  4187. "Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise." - Karl Rahner

  4188. "I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me." - Billy Crystal

  4189. "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust." - Barack Obama

  4190. "I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation." - Leif Garrett

  4191. "I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion." - Sufjan Stevens

  4192. "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

  4193. "I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such." - John Corey Whaley

  4194. "Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life." - Arthur Schopenhauer

  4195. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli

  4196. "Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that." - Imelda Staunton

  4197. "My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with." - Ayesha Curry

  4198. "Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!" - Candice Olson

  4199. "I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic." - Denis Thatcher

  4200. "My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'" - Russell Wilson

  4201. "We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families. There are people that are in dangerous areas, putting their lives on the line to keep our country free, and I think that's something we should all celebrate every day." - Guy Fieri

  4202. "I love this time of year. I'm the world's biggest Christmas fan!" - Phillip Schofield

  4203. "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush." - John Gibbon

  4204. "I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche." - Edward Zwick

  4205. "I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart." - Pope John XXIII

  4206. "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist." - Mary Kay Ash

  4207. "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire

  4208. "It's kind of ironic that the only Super Bowl I've been to as a fan was when the Rams played the Titans. I was at that game. My grandpa, when he was still involved in the NFL, he got me tickets for my birthday." - Sean McVay

  4209. "If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?" - Shannen Doherty

  4210. "When I look on my mantelpiece and see these cards wishing me a happy 100th birthday, I can't believe it." - Vera Lynn

  4211. "I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots." - Joan Collins

  4212. "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." - Paul Sweeney

  4213. "My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That's how I got the name." - Lil Peep

  4214. "I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect." - Jon Taffer

  4215. "Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done." - Bo Bennett

  4216. "You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure." - Thomas J. Watson

  4217. "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do." - Martin Lawrence

  4218. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank

  4219. "It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?" - Jocko Willink

  4220. "I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley." - Ashley Graham

  4221. "You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it." - Larry Page

  4222. "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind." - Joel Osteen

  4223. "Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be." - Joel Osteen

  4224. "My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way." - Scott Eastwood

  4225. "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain." - Dakota Fanning

  4226. "Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom." - Rene Russo

  4227. "I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents." - Nikki Reed

  4228. "Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago." - Kara Swisher

  4229. "Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well." - John Greenleaf Whittier

  4230. "Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work." - Caprice Bourret

  4231. "Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington." - Rush Limbaugh

  4232. "When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery." - James Whitcomb Riley

  4233. "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God." - Christopher Hitchens

  4234. "Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle." - Jay Shetty

  4235. "The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  4236. "I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church." - Shaun Cassidy

  4237. "I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future." - John Cusack

  4238. "It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there." - John Hughes

  4239. "I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual." - Janet Jackson

  4240. "Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative." - John Lydon

  4241. "I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write." - David Mamet

  4242. "It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational." - Shawn Mendes

  4243. "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours." - Busy Philipps

  4244. "I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game." - Luis Fonsi

  4245. "I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time." - Angela Kinsey

  4246. "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C. S. Lewis

  4247. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  4248. "My mum, she loves a bargain hunt. You can't buy her anything expensive. I remember I bought her a diamond bracelet for her birthday. I was being a nice son! She told me to take it back." - Daniel Sturridge

  4249. "My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game." - Eric Bristow

  4250. "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." - Jewel

  4251. "If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself." - Ted Lieu

  4252. "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut

  4253. "Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday." - Tobin Bell

  4254. "In my opinion, love is not about gender, it's not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries." - Bill Kaulitz

  4255. "We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic." - Lance Burton

  4256. "My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes." - Jason Momoa

  4257. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  4258. "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take." - Christopher Reeve

  4259. "People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning." - Clare Short

  4260. "My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives." - Kid Cudi

  4261. "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

  4262. "Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases." - Guy Fieri

  4263. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  4264. "I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive." - Tim Allen

  4265. "Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear." - Dan Millman

  4266. "They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats." - Chuck Feeney

  4267. "A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

  4268. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  4269. "When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go." - Poppy Delevingne

  4270. "Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons." - Mohamed ElBaradei

  4271. "When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor's fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions." - Ajith Kumar

  4272. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  4273. "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." - Robert A. Heinlein

  4274. "God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family." - Joel Osteen

  4275. "It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." - Amelia Barr

  4276. "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." - Mahatma Gandhi

  4277. "It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs." - Spike Jonze

  4278. "Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things." - Jane Chen

  4279. "I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'" - Larry David

  4280. "I wake up in the morning thinking about food." - Guy Fieri

  4281. "If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?" - Al Jourgensen

  4282. "Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy." - Reinhard Bonnke

  4283. "When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes." - Jeff Bridges

  4284. "I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight." - Chord Overstreet

  4285. "Ya gotta think positive." - Craig Sager

  4286. "Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught." - Eric Ries

  4287. "People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning." - John Scalzi

  4288. "Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet." - Joni Ernst

  4289. "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

  4290. "Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure." - Mel Gibson

  4291. "Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in." - Simon Van Booy

  4292. "I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed." - Matthew Williamson

  4293. "I always try and be as positive as I can and give people the benefit of the doubt because, in my own experience - seeing myself fall so hard so many times in my life and do so many things where I lost my way so many times - and then people didn't give up on me, like my husband and my family." - Beth Hart

  4294. "I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs." - Simon Kinberg

  4295. "I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist." - Ricky Martin

  4296. "For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates." - Peter Navarro

  4297. "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson

  4298. "I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership." - Donna Karan

  4299. "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed." - Emily Dickinson

  4300. "Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

  4301. "Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  4302. "I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has." - Bill Gates

  4303. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

  4304. "There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose." - Charles M. Schwab

  4305. "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that." - Diane Kruger

  4306. "To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed." - Sidney Poitier

  4307. "I'm a night owl; I could work until 6 in the morning without even thinking about it." - Julie Plec

  4308. "In 'Chappie,' you see this sort of young robot that's learning through maybe 'deep learning' how to see the world really, look out into the world, and learn step by step. What's so interesting is that with 'Chappie,' you're getting to see how human behavior reacts to artificial intelligence, and I don't think it's always going to be positive." - Gray Scott

  4309. "Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood." - Christopher Columbus

  4310. "There are going to be birthdays, weddings, BBQs and work dos and you are entitled to have a few drinks, a slice of cake, a pepperoni pizza or an Easter egg every now and then." - Chloe Madeley

  4311. "I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs." - David Archuleta

  4312. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

  4313. "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." - Isoroku Yamamoto

  4314. "I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen." - Gabriel Iglesias

  4315. "I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt." - Charli D'Amelio

  4316. "For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics." - Michael J. Knowles

  4317. "If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more." - Regina Brett

  4318. "Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars." - Alan Shepard

  4319. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  4320. "I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning." - Robert Duvall

  4321. "I do kind of marvel at my journey. But at the same time, I look back at a lot of the steps, and maybe not every step, but a lot of the steps, and since I was 12 or 13, I look at the people who helped me and the moments that were inspirational to me, and you can recall what my mindset and what my make-up was at that time to try and be the best." - Chris Bosh

  4322. "My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training." - William H. McRaven

  4323. "It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire." - Cate Campbell

  4324. "The single most important key to success is to be a good listener." - Kelly Wearstler

  4325. "Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street." - Graeme Souness

  4326. "My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." - Isaac Newton

  4327. "When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow." - Charles Stanley

  4328. "My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'" - Gabby Douglas

  4329. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  4330. "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins

  4331. "Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!" - Joyce Meyer

  4332. "My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I." - David Cassidy

  4333. "Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success." - Maude Adams

  4334. "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

  4335. "The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are." - Anne Lamott

  4336. "To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed." - Sidney Poitier

  4337. "To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship." - Steve Earle

  4338. "Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package." - Jon Katz

  4339. "Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been." - Alan Alda

  4340. "My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity." - Wayne Dyer

  4341. "I play for God and only God." - Memphis Depay

  4342. "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning." - David Hockney

  4343. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  4344. "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." - Jorge Luis Borges

  4345. "No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." - Henry Kissinger

  4346. "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." - Bernard Williams

  4347. "When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold." - Bernard Arnault

  4348. "Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me." - Shakira

  4349. "In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment." - Viktor E. Frankl

  4350. "'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear." - Tom Petty

  4351. "Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time." - Ajith Kumar

  4352. "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work." - Patrick Swayze

  4353. "I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more." - Mariska Hargitay

  4354. "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom." - Sydney Madwed

  4355. "I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater." - Lana Parrilla

  4356. "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

  4357. "I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists." - Noel Wells

  4358. "Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  4359. "Ideas shape the course of history." - John Maynard Keynes

  4360. "Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness." - Hannah More

  4361. "I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays." - Bryson Tiller

  4362. "I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning." - Hugh Grant

  4363. "You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point." - Andy Grammer

  4364. "I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God." - Christina Aguilera

  4365. "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." - Soren Kierkegaard

  4366. "My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though." - Joss Whedon

  4367. "I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act." - Brie Larson

  4368. "I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing." - Ella Henderson

  4369. "A lot of Christmas episodes of comedies are comedies trying to be dramas." - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  4370. "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters

  4371. "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night." - Chanakya

  4372. "I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on." - Claudette Colvin

  4373. "Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted." - Nadine Labaki

  4374. "Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

  4375. "I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk." - Jake Roberts

  4376. "I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead." - Susan Orlean

  4377. "Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  4378. "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden

  4379. "The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection." - Kenneth Scott Latourette

  4380. "We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success." - Henry Cloud

  4381. "But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness." - John Podhoretz

  4382. "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person." - R. Kelly

  4383. "Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback." - Len Wein

  4384. "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." - Paul Sweeney

  4385. "You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe." - Joyce Meyer

  4386. "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." - Vince Lombardi

  4387. "Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune." - Jessie Buckley

  4388. "A man with God is always in the majority." - John Knox

  4389. "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." - William Hazlitt

  4390. "Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion." - Thomas Hobbes

  4391. "Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen." - Sean Lennon

  4392. "Even as a little kid I knew that spinning a dreidel on the floor for literal pennies was a sad consolation for the joys of trimming a Christmas tree." - Claire Saffitz

  4393. "I constantly peed in my pants up until the 8th grade and wore an extra-large sailor uniform from kindergarten to 8th grade because my mom was scared I'd grow out of it. So I learned to make fun of myself at school and summer camp." - Ali Wong

  4394. "I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also." - John McCain

  4395. "Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success." - Thomas J. Stanley

  4396. "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar." - Susan Orlean

  4397. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." - Rosa Parks

  4398. "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career." - Paul Newman

  4399. "The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God." - Pope Shenouda III

  4400. "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." - Zora Neale Hurston

  4401. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

  4402. "What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy." - Beth Hart

  4403. "The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed." - Paul Engle

  4404. "I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas." - Karlie Kloss

  4405. "I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions." - Bonnie Raitt

  4406. "You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement." - Jim Starlin

  4407. "I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning." - Mary Kay Andrews

  4408. "Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life." - T. B. Joshua

  4409. "Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is." - Keith Ellison

  4410. "I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives." - Ann Voskamp

  4411. "My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it." - Thomas S. Monson

  4412. "I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution." - Thomas Heatherwick

  4413. "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

  4414. "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time." - Oswald Chambers

  4415. "Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that." - Mary L. Trump

  4416. "Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s." - Suzy Menkes

  4417. "If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself." - Kris Kristofferson

  4418. "Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast." - Joan of Arc

  4419. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

  4420. "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts." - Tom Brady

  4421. "I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years." - Tracey Ullman

  4422. "I feel like I'm meant to be a mom." - Kaley Cuoco

  4423. "I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning." - Harlan Ellison

  4424. "I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else." - Jane Seymour

  4425. "Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion." - Sri Chinmoy

  4426. "Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'" - Vanity

  4427. "Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck." - James Altucher

  4428. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

  4429. "Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg's last birthday party." - Nish Kumar

  4430. "I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It's such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas." - Rachel Boston

  4431. "My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'" - Randy Rainbow

  4432. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  4433. "My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning." - Mary Quant

  4434. "I would love to be remembered as a wonderfully dynamic and multitalented actress who left a legacy through her work and through her life of helping people and of being a positive force in the world." - Keshia Knight Pulliam

  4435. "I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe." - Maysoon Zayid

  4436. "From my grandmother, I started drinking warm water with lemon every morning just before breakfast. That's something she has been doing for years. It has helped me a lot with digestion. And then also eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, like not eating tomatoes in the winter." - Margherita Missoni

  4437. "My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference." - Claire Saffitz

  4438. "We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top." - Navjot Singh Sidhu

  4439. "Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard." - Mayte Garcia

  4440. "I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me." - Mike Epps

  4441. "When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it." - Mary-Kate Olsen

  4442. "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval." - Thomas S. Monson

  4443. "No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good." - Eddie Murray

  4444. "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

  4445. "Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued." - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  4446. "The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits." - Lewis Howes

  4447. "On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that." - Lindsay Lohan

  4448. "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature." - Neil Young

  4449. "I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season." - Ashley Tisdale

  4450. "If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'" - Sarah Kay

  4451. "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity." - Cesar Chavez

  4452. "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith." - Russell M. Nelson

  4453. "Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want." - Conan Stevens

  4454. "Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body." - Garry Moore

  4455. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  4456. "The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities." - Ezra Taft Benson

  4457. "I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God." - Tony Dungy

  4458. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges

  4459. "Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world." - Shari Arison

  4460. "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world." - Nigel Lythgoe

  4461. "I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed." - Evan Ross

  4462. "I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour." - Vaani Kapoor

  4463. "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine." - Rita Dove

  4464. "At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  4465. "There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!" - Monica Johnson

  4466. "The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator." - Jim Lehrer

  4467. "When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one." - Dean Rusk

  4468. "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." - Shah Rukh Khan

  4469. "I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart." - Jason Derulo

  4470. "My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'" - Chrissie Fit

  4471. "I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people." - James McAvoy

  4472. "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." - Jean-Paul Sartre

  4473. "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." - C. S. Lewis

  4474. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  4475. "Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'" - Vanity

  4476. "That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin." - Aasif Mandvi

  4477. "When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'" - Valerie Harper

  4478. "As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'" - Harriet Tubman

  4479. "No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is." - Rush Limbaugh

  4480. "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." - Isoroku Yamamoto

  4481. "Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs." - Henry B. Eyring

  4482. "I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted." - Kaley Cuoco

  4483. "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Jeff Rich

  4484. "I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments." - Juan Mata

  4485. "Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas." - Gil Marks

  4486. "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable." - John Wooden

  4487. "I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light." - Ellsworth Kelly

  4488. "I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay." - Hal Ashby

  4489. "I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience." - Marie Curie

  4490. "It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success." - Tobias Lutke

  4491. "I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, like, he doesn't let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn't like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he's, like, dying. He's very low-key with it. He's always been like that since he was born." - Remy Ma

  4492. "I have a very good relation with rain. When I was born in Orissa, there were severe floods. Even now it rains on my birthday." - Varun Sandesh

  4493. "One person's religion is another person's cult." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

  4494. "I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'" - Craig David

  4495. "Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!" - Zayn Malik

  4496. "Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct." - Marianne Williamson

  4497. "I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted." - Paul Bettany

  4498. "Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive." - Tim Allen

  4499. "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms." - John B. S. Haldane

  4500. "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert H. Schuller

  4501. "My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside." - David Hasselhoff

  4502. "I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such." - John Corey Whaley

  4503. "The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team." - Jocko Willink

  4504. "I grew up surrounded by all types of cultures - French, Indian, Arabic - a melting pot of cultures, sounds, foods, people, and religions. It opened my eyes early, and I'm grateful for that. It's not about success in one area; it's about exploring the world musically and spending time in those places whenever you can." - DJ Snake

  4505. "Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers." - Brian McDermott

  4506. "And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man." - A. E. Housman

  4507. "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things." - Demi Lovato

  4508. "You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that." - Jack Welch

  4509. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  4510. "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - Brian Tracy

  4511. "I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad's stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV." - John Carter Cash

  4512. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  4513. "The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children." - Joyce Banda

  4514. "I had confidence in my quality, so I was always positive and had good objectivity." - Riyad Mahrez

  4515. "I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites." - Drew Carey

  4516. "Sunday morning, I wake up at, like, 6 or 6:30 to go to the gym. I drink a glass of water, and then, before I start my workout, I drink a cup of coffee." - Salt Bae

  4517. "When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery." - James Whitcomb Riley

  4518. "'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy." - Jane Pauley

  4519. "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh." - Benny Hinn

  4520. "I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun." - Cat Cora

  4521. "We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music in some sort of shape and form, and if you think about it, most of us remember the first time we kissed someone, what kind of music was playing or the song that was playing on our friend's birthday." - Daniel Ek

  4522. "I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too." - Nick Vujicic

  4523. "My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe." - Sharon Needles

  4524. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  4525. "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed." - Patrick Henry

  4526. "'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them." - Marc Platt

  4527. "If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God." - Ramakrishna

  4528. "I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence." - Kat Graham

  4529. "When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion." - Dennis Prager

  4530. "We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line." - Jerry Greenfield

  4531. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes." - Ernie Banks

  4532. "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Theodore Roosevelt

  4533. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  4534. "On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside." - Annie Jacobsen

  4535. "I'm nothing without God." - Taraji P. Henson

  4536. "I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive." - Mark McGwire

  4537. "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." - Thomas Wolfe

  4538. "With self-discipline most anything is possible." - Theodore Roosevelt

  4539. "Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away." - Chuck Palahniuk

  4540. "Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections." - Eric Kripke

  4541. "Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages." - Niall Ferguson

  4542. "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God." - George Washington

  4543. "My dear friend, clear your mind of cant." - Samuel Johnson

  4544. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

  4545. "We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions." - William McDonough

  4546. "Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that." - Mike McCue

  4547. "Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care." - Miriam Defensor-Santiago

  4548. "To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success." - Jose Bergamin

  4549. "We fall forward to succeed." - Mary Kay Ash

  4550. "I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me." - Dove Cameron

  4551. "That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic." - Monty Don

  4552. "One of the beautiful gifts of dance is that you're so in tune with your body so early on. I was very comfortable in my skin at a very early age, performing onstage and wearing interesting costumes. And I give so much credit to my mom - she never made me feel that my costume was wrong, or bad, even when there was not a lot to them!" - Jenna Dewan

  4553. "We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better." - Paul Walker

  4554. "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." - William Tecumseh Sherman

  4555. "It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God's grace." - Dhanush

  4556. "I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties." - Lil Pump

  4557. "I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics." - Rainn Wilson

  4558. "A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion." - Mahatma Gandhi

  4559. "I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff - sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad." - Chris Weidman

  4560. "A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action." - Richard M. DeVos

  4561. "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." - Ambrose Bierce

  4562. "Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody." - Troy Polamalu

  4563. "I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'" - Ireland Baldwin

  4564. "My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better." - Tessa Virtue

  4565. "The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent." - Charlie Sheen

  4566. "I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before." - Austin Mahone

  4567. "I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me." - Shemar Moore

  4568. "Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history." - Michael Specter

  4569. "For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train." - Dwayne Johnson

  4570. "I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing." - Carly Schroeder

  4571. "For the children it will always be a lemonade float at the Christmas table as a special treat." - John Torode

  4572. "If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive." - Tom Landry

  4573. "Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy." - Ray Stevenson

  4574. "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career." - Paul Newman

  4575. "They always win who side with God." - Frederick William Faber

  4576. "Being a person is really hard, obviously depending on your background for some people it can be much harder, but mental health and how we feel about ourselves is so key to changing the world in a positive way." - Kate Nash

  4577. "I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do." - Gail Kelly

  4578. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  4579. "When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school." - Tammy Duckworth

  4580. "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." - Francis Bacon

  4581. "Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work." - Kobe Bryant

  4582. "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher

  4583. "Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped." - Loretta Lynn

  4584. "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad." - Thomas Paine

  4585. "Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining." - Anupam Kher

  4586. "My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood." - Doja Cat

  4587. "I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views." - Ishmael Beah

  4588. "I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!" - Cara Delevingne

  4589. "Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition." - Jay Parini

  4590. "When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge." - John Rocha

  4591. "I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving." - Jay Rock

  4592. "I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain." - Zara Larsson

  4593. "The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore." - Angela Ahrendts

  4594. "It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it." - Lindsey Vonn

  4595. "I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties." - Yigal Azrouel

  4596. "My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist." - Mark Bradford

  4597. "Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it." - Natalie du Toit

  4598. "Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett

  4599. "As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization." - Peter Bergen

  4600. "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." - Erma Bombeck

  4601. "Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that." - Mary L. Trump

  4602. "I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children." - Keiynan Lonsdale

  4603. "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." - Richard Bach

  4604. "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther

  4605. "I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan." - AB de Villiers

  4606. "Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized." - Jidenna

  4607. "I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work." - Andrew O'Hagan

  4608. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  4609. "You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good." - Hans Bender

  4610. "When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted." - Alan King

  4611. "My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom." - Miley Cyrus

  4612. "The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them." - Barbara Mandrell

  4613. "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  4614. "My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another." - Art Linkletter

  4615. "I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing." - George Kotsiopoulos

  4616. "We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success." - River Phoenix

  4617. "I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." - Steven Wright

  4618. "My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day." - Harold Pinter

  4619. "I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo." - Bindi Irwin

  4620. "When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled." - Joel Osteen

  4621. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  4622. "Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition." - Fred Melamed

  4623. "When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened." - Stephen Hendry

  4624. "If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game." - Scott Adams

  4625. "My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them." - Milo Ventimiglia

  4626. "I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'" - Summer Sanders

  4627. "My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise." - David Harewood

  4628. "I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me." - SZA

  4629. "I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions." - William T. Vollmann

  4630. "We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!" - Trisha Yearwood

  4631. "I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!" - Kirsten Prout

  4632. "Those heartaches, those cries in your life that you go through, I thought that every kid goes through them. I knew I didn't have much, but I didn't know there was another side out there. I thought one present for Christmas was the way it is." - Jason Witten

  4633. "There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none." - Pope Benedict XVI

  4634. "When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it's always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  4635. "I get asked, on a sort of daily basis, 'It's my wife's 30th birthday, can you set her a task?'" - Alex Horne

  4636. "My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered - she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94." - Emilia Wickstead

  4637. "After all, God is God because he remembers." - Elie Wiesel

  4638. "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake." - John Shelby Spong

  4639. "I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing." - Stella Young

  4640. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  4641. "There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life." - Karisma Kapoor

  4642. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  4643. "It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?" - Mahatma Gandhi

  4644. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  4645. "By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!" - Alfred Enoch

  4646. "You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you." - Ethel Waters

  4647. "For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!" - Connie Britton

  4648. "I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on." - Claudette Colvin

  4649. "Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses." - Kourtney Kardashian

  4650. "Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way." - Robert Downey, Jr.

  4651. "My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think." - Noel Gallagher

  4652. "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

  4653. "All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit." - Bobby Knight

  4654. "The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other's cartoons." - Paul Dini

  4655. "At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam, when we were attacked by pirates, he wet his pants." - Anh Do

  4656. "Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything." - Matt Harvey

  4657. "Ya gotta think positive." - Craig Sager

  4658. "I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug." - Peter Mayle

  4659. "I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing." - Paige VanZant

  4660. "Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me." - Shakira

  4661. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  4662. "In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive." - Gloria Estefan

  4663. "When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian." - Matthew Pearl

  4664. "London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy." - David Schwimmer

  4665. "The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line." - Joe Garcia

  4666. "I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off." - Samantha Morton

  4667. "When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school." - Tammy Duckworth

  4668. "You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive." - Billy Butler

  4669. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

  4670. "The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power." - Simon Schama

  4671. "Religion is all bunk." - Thomas A. Edison

  4672. "My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough." - Lance Armstrong

  4673. "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  4674. "What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist." - Rebecca Ferguson

  4675. "Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan." - Alexander Nix

  4676. "I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on." - Claudette Colvin

  4677. "Act like you expect to get into the end zone." - Christopher Morley

  4678. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou

  4679. "Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them." - Gwen Ifill

  4680. "Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?" - Tony Campolo

  4681. "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." - John Lennon

  4682. "I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?" - Sunil Yapa

  4683. "The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer." - Yuvraj Singh

  4684. "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too." - Will Smith

  4685. "The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model." - Anand Mahindra

  4686. "A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  4687. "Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do." - Wayne Dyer

  4688. "It's very easy to say, 'Well, hey, you should wake up at 4:30 in the morning and do what ABCD people do.' Just because it works for one person, just because it works for even many people, does not mean it will necessarily work for you." - Tim Ferriss

  4689. "It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral." - Fabrizio Moreira

  4690. "If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it." - Dalai Lama

  4691. "That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle." - Linus Torvalds

  4692. "Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning." - Jo Brand

  4693. "Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night." - Matt Barr

  4694. "Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped." - Loretta Lynn

  4695. "I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." - Douglas Adams

  4696. "Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas." - Robert Englund

  4697. "What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables." - Julia Child

  4698. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  4699. "When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box." - Audra McDonald

  4700. "I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning." - Mario Cantone

  4701. "When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times." - Kate Leth

  4702. "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference." - Edmund Burke

  4703. "I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!" - Conor Maynard

  4704. "It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive." - Lil' Kim

  4705. "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." - Larry Ellison

  4706. "Laughter is God's blessing." - Joseph Prince

  4707. "For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!" - Connie Britton

  4708. "I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think." - Rachel Zoe

  4709. "Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!" - Gaby Hoffmann

  4710. "If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation." - Jazz Jennings

  4711. "I absolutely love Sisley moisturising cream, which I use every morning; it also provides a great base for make-up, and I adore Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser for an overall finish." - Poppy Delevingne

  4712. "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God." - Lionel Blue

  4713. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!" - Alexander Pope

  4714. "When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns." - Michelle Obama

  4715. "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake

  4716. "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." - Joyce Meyer

  4717. "My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!" - Sophie Kinsella

  4718. "With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career." - Rob Dyrdek

  4719. "We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish." - Jennifer Granholm

  4720. "The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God." - Pope Shenouda III

  4721. "I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school." - Toyah Willcox

  4722. "In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame." - Annette Funicello

  4723. "I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home." - Bad Bunny

  4724. "I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free." - Robert Zemeckis

  4725. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  4726. "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." - ASAP Rocky

  4727. "Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to." - Mike Krzyzewski

  4728. "'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way." - Amy Lee

  4729. "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  4730. "Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people." - Pele

  4731. "Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook." - Michael Dirda

  4732. "We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris." - Rose George

  4733. "God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul." - Ernest Renan

  4734. "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states." - Arthur Godfrey

  4735. "My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me." - Gretchen Carlson

  4736. "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." - Lao Tzu

  4737. "The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." - Bennett Cerf

  4738. "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." - Wendy Cope

  4739. "Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle." - Marianne Williamson

  4740. "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe." - Norman Vincent Peale

  4741. "Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life." - Stan Wawrinka

  4742. "I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to." - Frank Luntz

  4743. "Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned." - Myles Kennedy

  4744. "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time." - Steven Biko

  4745. "To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande

  4746. "I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!" - Vince Clarke

  4747. "I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom." - Raveena Tandon

  4748. "My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck." - Dana Perino

  4749. "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure." - Jean Kerr

  4750. "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

  4751. "My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible." - John W. Rogers, Jr.

  4752. "My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it." - Jay-Z

  4753. "The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why." - Megan Hilty

  4754. "While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle." - Michael Greger

  4755. "I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me." - Anthony Ray Hinton

  4756. "I keep saying this - and I keep putting it off because I get busy - but I keep saying one year I'm gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is." - Tony Rock

  4757. "It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success." - Brian Armstrong

  4758. "Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Bonnie Raitt

  4759. "'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected." - Michael Scheuer

  4760. "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." - Ben Stein

  4761. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." - Joel Osteen

  4762. "I absolutely adore Christmas." - Aurora

  4763. "My mother had morning sickness after I was born." - Rodney Dangerfield

  4764. "I view art as an inspirational tool." - Thomas Kincade

  4765. "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

  4766. "Only stupid people are changed by success." - Jurgen Klopp

  4767. "Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year." - Anne Murray

  4768. "When a man's willing and eager the god's join in." - Aeschylus

  4769. "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

  4770. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  4771. "I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty." - Brittany Snow

  4772. "My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that." - Gigi Hadid

  4773. "Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society." - Donald Miller

  4774. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  4775. "I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too." - Richard Dawkins

  4776. "As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something." - Goldust

  4777. "As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood." - Thomas S. Monson

  4778. "Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime." - Mariah Carey

  4779. "Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want." - Conan Stevens

  4780. "I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday." - Paulina Porizkova

  4781. "'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone." - Tess Gerritsen

  4782. "I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life." - Mike Yaconelli

  4783. "In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor." - Tim Griffin

  4784. "The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child." - Larry Elder

  4785. "Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me." - Elvis Presley

  4786. "I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days." - Rachael Ray

  4787. "When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun." - Nicki Minaj

  4788. "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities." - Walter Scott

  4789. "Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual." - Paul Tournier

  4790. "Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational." - Kevin Brownlow

  4791. "It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you." - Abu Bakr

  4792. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  4793. "I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'" - Mika Brzezinski

  4794. "The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." - Lynn Lavner

  4795. "Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom." - Jenny Zhang

  4796. "All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race." - Kanye West

  4797. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

  4798. "The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day." - Thomas S. Monson

  4799. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

  4800. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi

  4801. "They succeed, because they think they can." - Virgil

  4802. "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

  4803. "The success and the failure are not my concern, but His." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  4804. "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." - John D. Rockefeller

  4805. "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm." - Kurt Vonnegut

  4806. "But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation." - Godfrey Reggio

  4807. "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - William Eardley IV

  4808. "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn

  4809. "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." - Molly Ivins

  4810. "My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays." - Joan Rivers

  4811. "I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work." - Sandeep Singh

  4812. "Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out." - Julian Fellowes

  4813. "Success is always a matter of some luck and timing." - Kathleen Kennedy

  4814. "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me." - Arthur Wellesley

  4815. "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." - Honore de Balzac

  4816. "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way." - Barbara Bush

  4817. "I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often." - Lori Foster

  4818. "Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard." - Mayte Garcia

  4819. "I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again." - Chrissy Teigen

  4820. "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." - Soledad O'Brien

  4821. "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." - Dalai Lama

  4822. "One has to shed one's old skin for a positive change." - Raj Thackeray

  4823. "All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

  4824. "You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach

  4825. "I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly." - Johann Lamont

  4826. "One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with." - David Cameron

  4827. "I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over." - Kristin Armstrong

  4828. "Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested." - Reshma Saujani

  4829. "I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away." - Natasha Richardson

  4830. "Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity." - Charles Spurgeon

  4831. "I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man." - Louie Schwartzberg

  4832. "Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat." - Wendell Berry

  4833. "I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness." - Leslie Jordan

  4834. "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C. S. Lewis

  4835. "Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future." - Charles B. Rangel

  4836. "Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it." - Sonam Kapoor

  4837. "Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come." - Dave East

  4838. "For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night." - John Hickenlooper

  4839. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  4840. "I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike." - Sean Lock

  4841. "Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like." - Julian Baggini

  4842. "For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic." - Mary Kay Andrews

  4843. "The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust." - Denise Morrison

  4844. "I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser." - Nikki Sixx

  4845. "My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old." - Ari Aster

  4846. "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." - Richard Roeper

  4847. "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties." - Lance Bass

  4848. "I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing." - Bobby Keys

  4849. "I eat a huge breakfast every morning. I do a lot of work at the gym, a lot of power-lifting, a lot of cardio, and I study wrestling tapes." - Sheamus

  4850. "When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world." - Carole King

  4851. "I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally." - TobyMac

  4852. "Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban." - Christina Milian

  4853. "I have a doughnut every morning. The same kind, from a street cart. Vanilla frosted with sprinkles on one half, weirdly. How hard is it to sprinkle the whole thing?" - Allison Williams

  4854. "The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why." - Megan Hilty

  4855. "Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert." - Austin Farrer

  4856. "Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head." - Ryan Lochte

  4857. "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker

  4858. "The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen." - P. J. O'Rourke

  4859. "You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it." - Curtis Stone

  4860. "Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children." - Billy Graham

  4861. "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." - Bo Bennett

  4862. "These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  4863. "I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women." - Linda McMahon

  4864. "Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite." - Dick Van Dyke

  4865. "On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else." - George Clooney

  4866. "My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life." - Mandy Patinkin

  4867. "If you take the duality of things - like sunny-sounding music with weird lyrics on it - it makes this dichotomy. I've never had that because when I make music, I make major chords, happy-sounding stuff, and my lyrics are positive." - Mod Sun

  4868. "The most challenging roles were Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Mars Needs Moms' because they were both motion capture, so there was a lot of physical work involved." - Raymond Ochoa

  4869. "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" - Lyndon B. Johnson

  4870. "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." - Reinhold Niebuhr

  4871. "I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in." - Rachel Stevens

  4872. "I couldn't believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in a hair salon and my mom looked over at me and I was just sobbing, because something about seeing the rings and hearing the athletes' excitement and just kind of knowing exactly what they were going through." - Tessa Virtue

  4873. "I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?" - Oscar Nunez

  4874. "I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas." - Kendall Jenner

  4875. "I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage." - Fiona Apple

  4876. "I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke, and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success. I'm excited about what we can do together, and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories." - Unai Emery

  4877. "I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days." - Rachael Ray

  4878. "I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then." - Post Malone

  4879. "Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides." - Franklin Foer

  4880. "Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet." - Joni Ernst

  4881. "It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God's grace." - Dhanush

  4882. "The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day." - Ryan Hall

  4883. "To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom." - Jose Bergamin

  4884. "If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor." - Joan Rivers

  4885. "In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development." - Jose Ramos-Horta

  4886. "My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea." - Gary Oldman

  4887. "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Billy Graham

  4888. "Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives." - Larry Elder

  4889. "Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end." - Jean Paul

  4890. "I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas." - Dan Brown

  4891. "'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it." - Malachi Kirby

  4892. "I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner." - Bobby Bowden

  4893. "When I see the kind of passion Sir Alex shows, it is hard to believe he is about to celebrate his 71st birthday." - Edwin van der Sar

  4894. "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher

  4895. "It's much easier for the vegan to remain at home and do their own Christmas dinner. That way, you can enjoy your food without someone making some hilarious comment about your stuffed pepper." - Romesh Ranganathan

  4896. "I always want to keep my skin clean when I get up in the morning, and I use sunscreen before I go out to the field." - Christen Press

  4897. "If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from." - Yuval Noah Harari

  4898. "People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?" - Paula Hawkins

  4899. "I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties." - Jay-Z

  4900. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  4901. "Keeping it clean is important to me because I'm just aware of my audience. My audience is a younger generation and, just in general, I wouldn't want to show my mom a video of me swearing like crazy. It's good clean fun." - DanTDM

  4902. "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

  4903. "Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope." - John Piper

  4904. "I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence." - Angela Bowie

  4905. "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens

  4906. "I am not a morning person." - Laurell K. Hamilton

  4907. "Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack." - Rachel Sklar

  4908. "We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us." - Niko Kovac

  4909. "If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful." - Bobby McFerrin

  4910. "Oh yes, my best birthday gift was when my dad gifted me my first car in college. It was a Maruti Swift. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It was so much fun, as I could completely show it off to my friends that I have my own car now and not my dad's car." - Huma Qureshi

  4911. "I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done." - CM Punk

  4912. "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." - Joe Paterno

  4913. "I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor." - Shailene Woodley

  4914. "Success is 99 percent failure." - Soichiro Honda

  4915. "I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person." - Jennifer Lopez

  4916. "People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked." - Charlamagne tha God

  4917. "A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!" - Munshi Premchand

  4918. "It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people." - Carrot Top

  4919. "Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party." - Andrei Codrescu

  4920. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa

  4921. "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action." - Frank Murphy

  4922. "I am not a morning person." - Laurell K. Hamilton

  4923. "The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee." - Tara Lipinski

  4924. "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." - Johannes Brahms

  4925. "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been." - Bobby Jindal

  4926. "People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" - Nhat Hanh

  4927. "When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it's always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  4928. "Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs." - Sheena Easton

  4929. "Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion." - Penn Jillette

  4930. "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

  4931. "A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen." - Kin Hubbard

  4932. "My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you." - Mavis Staples

  4933. "The night before games, I try to get some shots up. Early on the game day, I come early in the morning to try to get some shots up. I just try to do the same things: go through the scouting, watch some clips before the game, just try to get my body ready." - Giannis Antetokounmpo

  4934. "Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow." - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

  4935. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  4936. "Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It's not the Jewish blessing, it's the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it 'cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts." - Kenneth Copeland

  4937. "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin

  4938. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion." - Robert Runcie

  4939. "Get up every morning, tell yourself you are beautiful and gear up to win!" - Manushi Chhillar

  4940. "Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters." - Tom Brokaw

  4941. "Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth." - John Quincy Adams

  4942. "We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God." - Duane Chapman

  4943. "We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!" - Trisha Yearwood

  4944. "If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full." - Rory McIlroy

  4945. "Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended." - Keith Thibodeaux

  4946. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  4947. "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - Satchel Paige

  4948. "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." - Larry Ellison

  4949. "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today." - Queen Elizabeth II

  4950. "My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru." - Sid Sriram

  4951. "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing." - Florence Welch

  4952. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." - Abraham Lincoln

  4953. "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

  4954. "By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations." - Kate Winslet

  4955. "You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased." - Daniel Kahneman

  4956. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  4957. "I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso." - Khalid

  4958. "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." - Jim Elliot

  4959. "Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world." - Amanda Lindhout

  4960. "In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions." - Harsha Bhogle

  4961. "There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up." - Neha Dhupia

  4962. "One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side." - Trisha Yearwood

  4963. "My daughter learned to say, 'They're not even trying to cover!' before her second birthday." - James Holzhauer

  4964. "I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians." - Devin Townsend

  4965. "I owe everything to my mom. She definitely got me to where I'm at today. Without her I wouldn't be able to do the things that I do. She and I are very close." - David Lambert

  4966. "Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake." - Walter Lord

  4967. "I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid." - David Lambert

  4968. "But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns." - Harriet Ann Jacobs

  4969. "For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator." - Cheryl Hines

  4970. "A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday." - Erma Bombeck

  4971. "On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession." - Iman

  4972. "Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion." - Michael Burry

  4973. "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure." - Sylvester Stallone

  4974. "On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous." - James Callis

  4975. "Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers." - Cat Cora

  4976. "I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that." - El DeBarge

  4977. "Only a god can save us." - Martin Heidegger

  4978. "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents." - Adele

  4979. "When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world." - Victor Ortiz

  4980. "I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement." - Tyler Perry

  4981. "One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them." - Roy H. Williams

  4982. "Spirituality is everything for me because I've based my life on that: finding the positive out of everything and professing what I want and manifesting it in my mind." - Rotimi

  4983. "To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way." - Eliud Kipchoge

  4984. "What you wish to others, God wishes to you." - T. B. Joshua

  4985. "When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling." - David Henrie

  4986. "In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well." - Simon Schama

  4987. "If you love god, burn a church." - Jello Biafra

  4988. "I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend's engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks." - Mona Eltahawy

  4989. "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence." - Stephen Covey

  4990. "We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions." - William McDonough

  4991. "My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up." - Jake Tapper

  4992. "Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion." - Lucretius

  4993. "I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday." - Amy Purdy

  4994. "These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over." - Van Morrison

  4995. "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." - Mira Nair

  4996. "I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing." - Rachel Kushner

  4997. "Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong." - Gregg Allman

  4998. "My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference." - Dave Mustaine

  4999. "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." - Gustave Flaubert

  5000. "Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me." - Gene Luen Yang

  5001. "You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song." - Brian Wilson

  5002. "Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." - Taylor Caldwell

  5003. "I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a monstrous day in front of me. Granola gives me energy. It's quick, tasty, and healthy." - Daniel Humm

  5004. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  5005. "I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit." - Helen Mirren

  5006. "I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go." - Tracy Chapman

  5007. "I think a robot butler would be a great idea for certain things. But the idea of anybody coming into my bedroom and doing stuff for me, besides my wife and I - such as giving you tea in the morning - I just find a bit irksome." - John Torode

  5008. "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'" - Phillips Brooks

  5009. "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." - John B. S. Haldane

  5010. "Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing." - Maurice Sendak

  5011. "Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines." - Hans Haacke

  5012. "The best thing that can happen in a relationship is when you are the same person you were before the relationship started. You are not hiding anything, and you still have a life of your own. The other best thing is sex - that is a super positive." - Greg Behrendt

  5013. "I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts." - Suzi Quatro

  5014. "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake." - Basil Hume

  5015. "My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think." - Noel Gallagher

  5016. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  5017. "My mom was a single parent." - G-Eazy

  5018. "In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you've gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people's opinions." - Nikki Sixx

  5019. "Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion." - Ja Rule

  5020. "The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice." - John Boyle O'Reilly

  5021. "After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question." - Stephen Harper

  5022. "In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds." - Jacque Fresco

  5023. "I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation." - Simon Callow

  5024. "I just say to anyone in life or in sport, don't let defeat bother you and don't let no one say you can't. Stay focused and stay positive and keep working hard." - Rocky Fielding

  5025. "What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?" - Louisa May Alcott

  5026. "I like to keep my world positive. There's enough negativity kicking around." - Jim Root

  5027. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  5028. "Success is 99 percent failure." - Soichiro Honda

  5029. "I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking." - Steve Albini

  5030. "I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that." - Nicola Formichetti

  5031. "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away." - Anna Pavlova

  5032. "My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close." - Ann Voskamp

  5033. "Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief." - Carol Ann Duffy

  5034. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  5035. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  5036. "I was born on Dev Anand's birthday so I believe... the older I get, the better I become." - Chunky Pandey

  5037. "I never focus on success; I only focus on listening to my online community and being consistent." - Rosanna Pansino

  5038. "In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne." - Michael Leunig

  5039. "I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things." - Tom Green

  5040. "God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight." - Reggie White

  5041. "Every year NYC hosts one of the world's most famous Easter Parade. Each year attendees and participants show up in their Sunday best and as tradition states, with Easter bonnets in tow." - Hilary Farr

  5042. "Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  5043. "I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet." - Joel Robuchon

  5044. "After marriage, my love won't be divided between my mom and my wife. It will be doubled. My mom has always been as much my hero as my father." - Tiger Shroff

  5045. "My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles." - Christie Brinkley

  5046. "'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State." - Lori Wilde

  5047. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  5048. "I share a birthday with Max Beesley and James Nesbitt." - Claudia Winkleman

  5049. "Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s." - Suzy Menkes

  5050. "There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion." - Malala Yousafzai

  5051. "I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me." - Reggie Watts

  5052. "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." - Emile Zola

  5053. "I don't need to worry about what other people are talking about me. Instead, I focus on the people talking positive and all the positive things that I know I am doing." - Anthony Yarde

  5054. "I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom." - Lisa Guerrero

  5055. "I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!" - Becky G

  5056. "And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans." - Barack Obama

  5057. "I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it." - Aleksandar Hemon

  5058. "Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'" - Ming-Na Wen

  5059. "As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism." - David Novak

  5060. "My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations." - Della Reese

  5061. "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals." - Jim Rohn

  5062. "One of the things that Marjorie has done has given me the joy of family. It's a joy I never really knew. I spent a long time being lonely and hiding, and now, at Christmas, there's this huge family. That's something that's very new to me. And very special." - Joe Walsh

  5063. "I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere." - Pedro Sanchez

  5064. "I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger." - Jacob Latimore

  5065. "The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph." - Nostradamus

  5066. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive." - Jean Chatzky

  5067. "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'" - David Sedaris

  5068. "Since I've become a mom, I'm more about comfort and simplicity. I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories." - Jessalyn Gilsig

  5069. "We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace." - Stanley Hauerwas

  5070. "Ya gotta think positive." - Craig Sager

  5071. "Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement." - Brene Brown

  5072. "The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change." - Jess Phillips

  5073. "I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light." - David Hockney

  5074. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

  5075. "I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom." - Kerry Kennedy

  5076. "I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?" - Katrina Kaif

  5077. "One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that." - Allison Williams

  5078. "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  5079. "Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it." - The Ultimate Warrior

  5080. "My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older." - SZA

  5081. "We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore." - Joel Osteen

  5082. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - Francis of Assisi

  5083. "What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine." - W. S. Merwin

  5084. "I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative." - John Cena

  5085. "Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain." - Amanda Lindhout

  5086. "That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward." - Jocko Willink

  5087. "The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them." - Barbara Mandrell

  5088. "I think a robot butler would be a great idea for certain things. But the idea of anybody coming into my bedroom and doing stuff for me, besides my wife and I - such as giving you tea in the morning - I just find a bit irksome." - John Torode

  5089. "'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better." - George Edward Woodberry

  5090. "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." - Lily Tomlin

  5091. "As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success." - Tamara Taylor

  5092. "Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer." - Monica Johnson

  5093. "It takes a long time to become young." - Pablo Picasso

  5094. "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill

  5095. "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family." - Madonna Ciccone

  5096. "I'd go out with my family and my close ones, who have been by my side through the years, but I am not the one who will throw parties on his birthday." - Sonu Sood

  5097. "I think the most hectic time in my house is about six o'clock in the morning, our sausage dog starts howling and barking and scratching to wake us all up - no alarms needed." - Katie Piper

  5098. "From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money." - Christie Hefner

  5099. "How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?" - Simon Mainwaring

  5100. "As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle." - Taboo

  5101. "With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done." - Chris Coleman

  5102. "I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way." - James Garner

  5103. "I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia." - David O. Selznick

  5104. "The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction." - Murray Rothbard

  5105. "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note." - Seamus Heaney

  5106. "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." - Shah Rukh Khan

  5107. "My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag." - Joe Frazier

  5108. "'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain." - Mason Ramsey

  5109. "My second freshman year of college, that's year two of seven, my father got very sick and though he was going to die. He gave me a Rolex, a bottom of the line one. I wore that watch everyday. He didn't die. On my 40th birthday, he gave me a very nice Rolex that belonged to him. That's the one thing we connect on: the watch." - Bert Kreischer

  5110. "I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia." - David H. Murdock

  5111. "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it." - Samuel Goldwyn

  5112. "My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart." - Lucas Till

  5113. "You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing." - Steven Adler

  5114. "I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful." - Bella Thorne

  5115. "The success of the film is down to the crew." - Dougray Scott

  5116. "In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album." - Smokey Robinson

  5117. "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work." - Patrick Swayze

  5118. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  5119. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  5120. "My birthday is generally a very quiet affair." - Jackie Shroff

  5121. "If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed." - Juliana Hatfield

  5122. "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included." - Bernard Manning

  5123. "As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do." - Anthony Joshua

  5124. "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time." - Steven Biko

  5125. "I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  5126. "I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the gas station,' I'd say, 'Go for it,' because if you love it that much at 18, he's probably going to end up owning 25 gas stations by the time he's 30." - Dana White

  5127. "The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal." - Yair Lapid

  5128. "I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can." - Lily Cole

  5129. "I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted." - Luke Ford

  5130. "Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science." - Paul Johnson

  5131. "I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger." - Vijender Singh

  5132. "I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be." - Kyan Douglas

  5133. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey

  5134. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  5135. "We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life." - George A. Smith

  5136. "I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours." - Kurt Vonnegut

  5137. "My parents, specially my mom wanted me to pursue B.Com honours during my undergrad." - Bhuvan Bam

  5138. "Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God." - James Weldon Johnson

  5139. "I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'" - Anne Wojcicki

  5140. "Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued." - Richard Thaler

  5141. "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." - Washington Irving

  5142. "Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave." - Padgett Powell

  5143. "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action." - Robert Shea

  5144. "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act." - Mahatma Gandhi

  5145. "The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things." - Nick Hanauer

  5146. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  5147. "God mode is something that I've always tried to unlock within myself." - Israel Adesanya

  5148. "My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race." - Rhiannon Giddens

  5149. "'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing." - Jerry Saltz

  5150. "There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up." - Neha Dhupia

  5151. "My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule." - Ty Segall

  5152. "I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said 'oh, you need surgery,' it was really weird - it was appendicitis." - Emma Willis

  5153. "Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week." - Harley Pasternak

  5154. "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled." - Carly Fiorina

  5155. "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do." - Diana Lopez

  5156. "Much effort, much prosperity." - Euripides

  5157. "I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors." - Joel Osteen

  5158. "No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!" - Dolly Parton

  5159. "When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That's why I fight." - Gennady Golovkin

  5160. "Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks." - Stephen Henderson

  5161. "When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent." - Matthew Quick

  5162. "Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays." - Devon Windsor

  5163. "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay." - William Cowper

  5164. "God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'" - Rick Warren

  5165. "I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that." - Don Rickles

  5166. "I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me." - Mariano Rivera

  5167. "He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  5168. "I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that." - Sasha Grey

  5169. "My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long." - Rainn Wilson

  5170. "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell

  5171. "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal." - Carol P. Christ

  5172. "I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  5173. "If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion." - Martin Amis

  5174. "I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do." - Jonny Kim

  5175. "My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little." - Paul Dano

  5176. "Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May." - Michael Dirda

  5177. "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up." - Florence Griffith Joyner

  5178. "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business." - Jeff Bezos

  5179. "North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving." - David H. Murdock

  5180. "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." - Ambrose Bierce

  5181. "With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood." - Isadora Duncan

  5182. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

  5183. "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance." - Morgan Freeman

  5184. "Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people." - Tena Desae

  5185. "My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked." - Daryl Hannah

  5186. "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  5187. "Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization." - Shirin Ebadi

  5188. "Well, my mom is Japanese. She moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager. And so, her food is - she did all of the cooking at home for the most part." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  5189. "A cult is a religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe

  5190. "Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world." - Kary Mullis

  5191. "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action." - Frank Murphy

  5192. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli

  5193. "Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief." - Carol Ann Duffy

  5194. "You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe." - Joyce Meyer

  5195. "Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that." - Chetan Bhagat

  5196. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeffe

  5197. "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success." - Michael Korda

  5198. "Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense." - Dionne Warwick

  5199. "We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day." - Lacey Chabert

  5200. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  5201. "It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail." - David Merrick

  5202. "I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas." - Leslie Bricusse

  5203. "I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?" - Brian Jacques

  5204. "Christmas time, you're at home with your friends and your parents. You sit down around the table and just play Scrabble. It's a fun game for me." - Kyler Murray

  5205. "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

  5206. "You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that." - Jack Welch

  5207. "As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion." - James Lankford

  5208. "When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'" - Zach Anner

  5209. "My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised." - Anderson Paak

  5210. "Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America." - Gary Locke

  5211. "All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key." - Mauricio Pochettino

  5212. "Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." - Tom Robbins

  5213. "Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide." - Ayushmann Khurrana

  5214. "In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well." - Richard Rohr

  5215. "For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic." - Mary Kay Andrews

  5216. "God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion." - Huston Smith

  5217. "I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties." - Cindy Crawford

  5218. "Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference." - Shari Arison

  5219. "I get mad at my mom. I really wish she'd put me into hockey. I'm not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He's unbelievable. He's small, but he's so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good." - Patrick Chan

  5220. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

  5221. "Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success." - Scott Adams

  5222. "Sex is God's joke on human beings." - Bette Davis

  5223. "I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that." - Nagma

  5224. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  5225. "That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they're also the most doubtful beings. They'll never know - we'll never know - how powerful we are." - Rihanna

  5226. "I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural." - Jennifer Aniston

  5227. "Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business." - Richard Branson

  5228. "It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'" - Christine Lakin

  5229. "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely." - Truman Capote

  5230. "When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn't give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now." - Hilary Farr

  5231. "I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned to Washington from an overseas posting and I reported for duty on the morning of 9/11. I knew in my gut when I saw the video of the first plane hitting the tower in Manhattan that it was bin Laden." - Gina Haspel

  5232. "Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction." - George Lois

  5233. "I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today." - Christy Turlington

  5234. "Success is a great deodorant." - Elizabeth Taylor

  5235. "The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team." - Jocko Willink

  5236. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge

  5237. "In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'" - Laura Harrier

  5238. "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent." - Barbara Ehrenreich

  5239. "Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own." - Mohnish Pabrai

  5240. "I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally." - David Rockefeller

  5241. "A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort." - Meriwether Lewis

  5242. "Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away." - Jim Elliot

  5243. "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  5244. "Yes, Leander locked me out. I'd gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out." - Rhea Pillai

  5245. "Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are." - Billy Graham

  5246. "I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.'" - Lily James

  5247. "Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing." - Maurice Sendak

  5248. "I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism." - Sylvester Stallone

  5249. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." - Anne Frank

  5250. "I always remove my makeup before sleeping and moisturise before bed and in the morning." - Hazel Keech

  5251. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace Thackeray

  5252. "I think that success is having fun." - Bruno Mars

  5253. "Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ." - Haile Selassie

  5254. "Even God lends a hand to honest boldness." - Menander

  5255. "I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time." - Paulo Coelho

  5256. "God loves to help him who strives to help himself." - Aeschylus

  5257. "That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about." - Alan King

  5258. "I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice." - Utada Hikaru

  5259. "Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other." - Marvin Sapp

  5260. "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful." - Margaret Mead

  5261. "I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time." - Lee Min-ho

  5262. "My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to." - Willem Dafoe

  5263. "My mom was a single parent." - G-Eazy

  5264. "I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do." - Kelly Slater

  5265. "When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective." - Harvey Mackay

  5266. "Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food." - Bob Harper

  5267. "Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family." - Allison Janney

  5268. "Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality." - Gordon Brown

  5269. "I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season." - Ashley Tisdale

  5270. "Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics." - Marvin Olasky

  5271. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  5272. "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." - Junipero Serra

  5273. "When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did." - Hans Matheson

  5274. "I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age." - Harry Dean Stanton

  5275. "My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control." - Dennis Haysbert

  5276. "Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success." - Mahira Khan

  5277. "Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life." - Alex Noble

  5278. "I'm not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I'm a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to." - Emily Wickersham

  5279. "I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you." - Imelda Staunton

  5280. "Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy." - Antonio Brown

  5281. "I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio." - Charles Leclerc

  5282. "We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it." - Kelly Rowland

  5283. "I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God." - Hassan Rouhani

  5284. "For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night." - John Hickenlooper

  5285. "There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me." - Cobie Smulders

  5286. "My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense." - Spencer Dinwiddie

  5287. "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." - Thomas Hughes

  5288. "For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator." - Cheryl Hines

  5289. "Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope." - Diego Maradona

  5290. "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken

  5291. "If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds." - Brian Armstrong

  5292. "Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill

  5293. "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad." - will.i.am

  5294. "We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought." - Max Joseph

  5295. "First of all, I try to be a positive role model." - Caitlyn Jenner

  5296. "Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society." - Donald Miller

  5297. "It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion." - Herman Hesse

  5298. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  5299. "Over the years, I've become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith." - Enes Kanter

  5300. "They have hijacked my religion." - Cat Stevens

  5301. "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success." - Bo Bennett

  5302. "Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god." - Tim Wise

  5303. "I have tried to have a really good, positive attitude." - Adam Thielen

  5304. "I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it." - Gilbert O'Sullivan

  5305. "I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie." - Colin Trevorrow

  5306. "I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas." - Paula Hawkins

  5307. "Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do." - Avi

  5308. "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." - Charles Dudley Warner

  5309. "I thank God for blessing me with the tools that he blessed me with to be where I am." - Terence Crawford

  5310. "In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'" - Laura Harrier

  5311. "If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority." - Adam Grant

  5312. "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." - Washington Irving

  5313. "One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!" - Mac DeMarco

  5314. "I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." - Audrey Hepburn

  5315. "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success." - James Cash Penney

  5316. "The way I look at things, every religion is the same." - S. Sreesanth

  5317. "I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem." - Kylie Jenner

  5318. "For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion." - Tyler, The Creator

  5319. "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God." - Jim Elliot

  5320. "Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather." - Kristina McMorris

  5321. "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck

  5322. "Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code." - Michael Dirda

  5323. "Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive." - Rich Brian

  5324. "I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it." - Bill Gates

  5325. "The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference." - David Jeremiah

  5326. "Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity." - Roger Ebert

  5327. "I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things." - Hugh Masekela

  5328. "I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football." - Taylor Kitsch

  5329. "Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process." - Maurizio Cattelan

  5330. "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." - Amy Sedaris

  5331. "I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both." - Delphine Arnault

  5332. "It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you." - Abu Bakr

  5333. "I wake up every morning new, free as a bird." - Ashley Cole

  5334. "When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'" - Oswald Chambers

  5335. "I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you." - Snoh Aalegra

  5336. "It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand." - Emile Durkheim

  5337. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas A. Edison

  5338. "I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything." - G-Dragon

  5339. "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success." - David Joseph Schwartz

  5340. "Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change." - Bruce Lipton

  5341. "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven." - Russell M. Nelson

  5342. "Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida." - James Lankford

  5343. "My mother always bought our birthday gifts." - Bruce Eric Kaplan

  5344. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." - Buddha

  5345. "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." - Colin Powell

  5346. "Religion is the search for ultimate meaning." - Viktor E. Frankl

  5347. "My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II." - Leonardo DiCaprio

  5348. "Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud." - Dustin Lynch

  5349. "What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man." - Edmund Burke

  5350. "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

  5351. "I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance." - TobyMac

  5352. "I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet." - Bill O'Reilly

  5353. "My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone." - Suki Waterhouse

  5354. "Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God." - Pope Francis

  5355. "My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!" - Lucy Hale

  5356. "I believe in the Devil. I believe there's a God, too. I met God at church - the Catholic Church." - Trippie Redd

  5357. "More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde were at my birthday party.' She's a phenomenal spirit." - Tilda Swinton

  5358. "I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?" - Willie Nelson

  5359. "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." - Galileo Galilei

  5360. "New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way." - Klaus Schwab

  5361. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." - Tommy Douglas

  5362. "The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say." - Sam Walton

  5363. "Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one." - Robert Baden-Powell

  5364. "To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means." - Emanuel Swedenborg

  5365. "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever." - Lisa Leslie

  5366. "Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." - Henry Van Dyke

  5367. "Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike." - Justin Rosenstein

  5368. "Spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the men and women who serve our country abroad is a reminder of the sacrifices many make to serve our country." - Conor Lamb

  5369. "The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa

  5370. "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it." - Camille Paglia

  5371. "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." - Elbert Hubbard

  5372. "Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." - Octavia E. Butler

  5373. "I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it." - David Lynch

  5374. "The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice." - John Boyle O'Reilly

  5375. "What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming." - Will Speck

  5376. "I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person." - Chrissy Teigen

  5377. "Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian." - Mother Angelica

  5378. "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner." - Michael Symon

  5379. "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning." - David Hockney

  5380. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  5381. "I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes." - Sylvester Stallone

  5382. "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand." - Howard Cosell

  5383. "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that." - Richard Dawkins

  5384. "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." - Lydia M. Child

  5385. "I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen." - Amy Sedaris

  5386. "I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse." - Susanne Bier

  5387. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  5388. "My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think." - Birdy

  5389. "Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too." - Josh Turner

  5390. "I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family." - Gerry Cooney

  5391. "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  5392. "To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good." - Cardi B

  5393. "A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion." - Hugo Black

  5394. "Religion comes from the word 're' or again and 'ligare' meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental." - Alex Grey

  5395. "I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope." - Kevin Smith

  5396. "I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution." - Thomas Heatherwick

  5397. "My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way." - Christen Press

  5398. "Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities." - Randi Weingarten

  5399. "Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." - Orison Swett Marden

  5400. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  5401. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  5402. "As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success." - Tamara Taylor

  5403. "It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more." - Ann Romney

  5404. "A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  5405. "But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me." - Michael W. Smith

  5406. "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  5407. "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda

  5408. "President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen." - Chris Rock

  5409. "I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety." - Emma Stone

  5410. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  5411. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  5412. "When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own." - Dan Levy

  5413. "He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life." - Victor Hugo

  5414. "Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas." - Charles Dickens

  5415. "I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear." - Joyce Meyer

  5416. "Keeping it clean is important to me because I'm just aware of my audience. My audience is a younger generation and, just in general, I wouldn't want to show my mom a video of me swearing like crazy. It's good clean fun." - DanTDM

  5417. "I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events." - Steven Pinker

  5418. "My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings." - Dan Gable

  5419. "My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday." - David Ulevitch

  5420. "Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." - Jon Bon Jovi

  5421. "Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention." - Linda Colley

  5422. "One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to." - Frank Darabont

  5423. "What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing." - Rahul Dravid

  5424. "The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us." - Pope Benedict XVI

  5425. "One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with." - June Carter Cash

  5426. "I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material." - Michael Sandel

  5427. "MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it." - John Torode

  5428. "I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary." - Hannah John-Kamen

  5429. "There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid." - Bonnie Hunt

  5430. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin

  5431. "God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion." - Desmond Tutu

  5432. "My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs." - Nick Diaz

  5433. "If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today." - Jack Canfield

  5434. "I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that." - Gordon Lightfoot

  5435. "In high school, I was crazy in love, and I would make handmade construction paper valentines every month for our monthly anniversaries. Then I'd go early in the morning and tape one to her car. It sounds sweet, but let's be honest: it was a little weird. I was probably crossing some lines." - Paul Rust

  5436. "My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods." - Ziggy Marley

  5437. "My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail." - Trevor Noah

  5438. "There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  5439. "I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art." - Daniel Bruhl

  5440. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  5441. "No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas." - Malaika Arora Khan

  5442. "A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation." - Thom Tillis

  5443. "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans

  5444. "When I wake up in the morning, I'm not worried about nobody. When I go to work, I'm not worried. That's not me trying to say how tough I am, but that's just what it is. I have no fear." - Terry Rozier

  5445. "We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries." - Nikki Haley

  5446. "I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve." - Common

  5447. "I'm nothing without God." - Taraji P. Henson

  5448. "When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much." - Will Ferrell

  5449. "I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive." - Ian Somerhalder

  5450. "I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'" - Michael Ball

  5451. "One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything." - Malcolm Muggeridge

  5452. "You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song." - Brian Wilson

  5453. "I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house." - Jay-Z

  5454. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  5455. "I always beat the sun up in the morning. It's the secret to why I'm double trouble." - Al Sharpton

  5456. "My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs." - Nick Diaz

  5457. "I didn't even walk for graduation - I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn't have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn't write one of them. She literally got me my diploma." - Lil Peep

  5458. "When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner." - Gigi Hadid

  5459. "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." - Maya Angelou

  5460. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace Thackeray

  5461. "My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse." - Amber Heard

  5462. "I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion." - Rick Warren

  5463. "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success." - James Cash Penney

  5464. "My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha." - B. R. Ambedkar

  5465. "I might be an actor professionally, but as a person I should know what our rituals, religion or our history is. Kumbh Mela really helps you in this." - Payal Rohatgi

  5466. "My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema." - Dan Schulman

  5467. "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain." - Dakota Fanning

  5468. "You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works." - Greg Boyle

  5469. "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." - Lao Tzu

  5470. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

  5471. "I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself." - Carmelo Anthony

  5472. "God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences." - Rodrigo Duterte

  5473. "I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper." - Henry Rollins

  5474. "There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age." - Benjamin Spock

  5475. "Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God." - Rick Warren

  5476. "Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons." - Mohamed ElBaradei

  5477. "I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke, and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success. I'm excited about what we can do together, and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories." - Unai Emery

  5478. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes." - Ernie Banks

  5479. "The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful." - Theodore Melfi

  5480. "Every year NYC hosts one of the world's most famous Easter Parade. Each year attendees and participants show up in their Sunday best and as tradition states, with Easter bonnets in tow." - Hilary Farr

  5481. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  5482. "I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate." - Jasmine Cephas Jones

  5483. "Victoria's Secret should highlight real women that actually purchase their clothing. I would love for them to start featuring more real bodies and diverse women. Victoria's Secret has the ability to tell people, 'It's okay,' when they wake up in the morning. They have the ability to change lives." - Rain Dove

  5484. "Fans are always going out of their way and doing so much, be it my birthday or any festival or occasion or most of the time nothing at all and there couldn't be a better way than connecting with them personally and giving them access to my world." - Priyamani

  5485. "I share a birthday with Max Beesley and James Nesbitt." - Claudia Winkleman

  5486. "I spend almost every morning with mail." - Seamus Heaney

  5487. "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young

  5488. "If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes." - Persis Khambatta

  5489. "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be." - Anne Frank

  5490. "I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership." - Zoe Sugg

  5491. "I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous." - Rachel Khoo

  5492. "Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody." - Troy Polamalu

  5493. "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." - H. L. Mencken

  5494. "Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs." - Henry B. Eyring

  5495. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  5496. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States." - Michelle Obama

  5497. "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." - Soledad O'Brien

  5498. "I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world." - Ryan Eggold

  5499. "The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'" - Robert Kiyosaki

  5500. "God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone." - Ziggy Marley

  5501. "I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." - Gustave Flaubert

  5502. "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it." - Elie Wiesel

  5503. "As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it." - Helen Hunt Jackson

  5504. "Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  5505. "I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung." - John McCormack

  5506. "There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time." - Lauren Conrad

  5507. "If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education." - William Jennings Bryan

  5508. "That's my father's theme. Get up in the morning, 'hello, Dad.' 'Get a job, leave the food alone... Who took my car?' America, you young kids, get a job. All that sagging, the clothes hanging behind, that ain't nothing. Get a job. You want to be somebody, get a job." - John Witherspoon

  5509. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  5510. "I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living." - William Gibson

  5511. "My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going." - Big Sean

  5512. "The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance." - Sun Yat-sen

  5513. "Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day." - Dana White

  5514. "My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know?" - Pete Carroll

  5515. "If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light." - Brian O'Driscoll

  5516. "There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love." - Wayne Dyer

  5517. "My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet." - Chris Messina

  5518. "The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him." - Matthew Sweet

  5519. "Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period." - Frances Wright

  5520. "The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco." - Armstrong Williams

  5521. "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God." - George Washington

  5522. "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

  5523. "If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full." - Rory McIlroy

  5524. "If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example." - Eric Schmidt

  5525. "As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  5526. "Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people." - David Carson

  5527. "All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit." - Bobby Knight

  5528. "Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish." - Rico Nasty

  5529. "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George Burns

  5530. "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." - Nicolaus Copernicus

  5531. "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage." - Clay Aiken

  5532. "My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico." - Andy Ruiz Jr.

  5533. "Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second." - Bear Bryant

  5534. "Thanksgiving is a big one for our family." - Kevin Jonas

  5535. "For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people." - James Lankford

  5536. "Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory." - Jocko Willink

  5537. "My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot." - Fred Armisen

  5538. "I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination." - Jewell Parker Rhodes

  5539. "Academic success depends on research and publications." - Philip Zimbardo

  5540. "I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life." - Chris Brown

  5541. "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase

  5542. "We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them." - Brandon Jenner

  5543. "Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances." - Amy Morin

  5544. "For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional." - Justin Lin

  5545. "My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection." - Michael Jackson

  5546. "The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don't want to train. You don't want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don't even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That's how I fight with that person." - Oleksandr Usyk

  5547. "Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  5548. "I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens." - Matthew Gray Gubler

  5549. "He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody." - Joseph Heller

  5550. "I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done." - Peter Criss

  5551. "I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too." - Larry Hagman

  5552. "Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you." - Labrinth

  5553. "It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth." - Keanu Reeves

  5554. "Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year." - Troy Gentile

  5555. "We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish." - Jennifer Granholm

  5556. "Success doesn't find you when you're alone in your house." - Katya Zamolodchikova

  5557. "My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew." - Miranda Lambert

  5558. "I hope I never get so old I get religious." - Ingmar Bergman

  5559. "'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins." - Michel Faber

  5560. "Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time." - Ajith Kumar

  5561. "People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world." - Maluma

  5562. "Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon." - John C. Reilly

  5563. "Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'" - Andy Biersack

  5564. "It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?" - Mahatma Gandhi

  5565. "Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." - John Morley

  5566. "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." - Washington Irving

  5567. "I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write." - David Mamet

  5568. "Christmas albums are not something you do frequently." - Isaac Hanson

  5569. "If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to." - Greg Davies

  5570. "I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire." - Jason Reynolds

  5571. "Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason." - Charles de Secondat

  5572. "Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive." - John Krasinski

  5573. "I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche." - Edward Zwick

  5574. "Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican." - Jack Schlossberg

  5575. "I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district." - Lucille Roybal-Allard

  5576. "I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith." - Stephen Curry

  5577. "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure." - Jean Kerr

  5578. "I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously." - Catherine O'Hara

  5579. "In the morning, I might have fruit or maybe oatmeal at home, or a bagel with coffee." - Karrueche Tran

  5580. "The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!" - Max Stirner

  5581. "Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah." - Meir Soloveichik

  5582. "My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired." - Kiran Bedi

  5583. "Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success." - Dan Pena

  5584. "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won." - Paul Merton

  5585. "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." - Vince Lombardi

  5586. "Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." - Robert Browning

  5587. "I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage." - Kid Cudi

  5588. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller

  5589. "Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder." - Tom Waits

  5590. "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it." - Demetri Martin

  5591. "It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good." - Shari Arison

  5592. "I'm a huge 'Nightmare before Christmas' fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I'm a really big fan of 'Sleepy Hollow.' I love 'Big Fish,' too, which is a bit different. There's a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like 'Ed Wood' that I'm a big fan of." - Kate Leth

  5593. "I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was." - Tabatha Coffey

  5594. "I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!" - Conor Maynard

  5595. "To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends." - Britney Spears

  5596. "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity." - B. R. Ambedkar

  5597. "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." - Josiah Gilbert Holland

  5598. "When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery." - James Whitcomb Riley

  5599. "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit." - Avicenna

  5600. "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel

  5601. "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms." - Ellen G. White

  5602. "I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but it's really those small things that make the big difference." - Chad Hurley

  5603. "There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table." - Danny Meyer

  5604. "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." - Erma Bombeck

  5605. "Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College." - Joe Paterno

  5606. "We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster." - Marianne Williamson

  5607. "If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more." - Regina Brett

  5608. "My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another." - Art Linkletter

  5609. "There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success." - John Osborne

  5610. "We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like." - Honor Harger

  5611. "Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better." - Yao Ming

  5612. "When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together." - Tyler Posey

  5613. "When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores." - Ben Shapiro

  5614. "Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way." - Robert Downey, Jr.

  5615. "I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song." - Clint Black

  5616. "You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear." - Greg Boyle

  5617. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  5618. "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God." - Christopher Hitchens

  5619. "Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty's name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent." - Diljit Dosanjh

  5620. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  5621. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  5622. "From my grandmother, I started drinking warm water with lemon every morning just before breakfast. That's something she has been doing for years. It has helped me a lot with digestion. And then also eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, like not eating tomatoes in the winter." - Margherita Missoni

  5623. "I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on." - John Hurt

  5624. "All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef." - Jesse McCartney

  5625. "I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area." - Kane Brown

  5626. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  5627. "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" - Robert Kennedy

  5628. "Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting." - Zig Ziglar

  5629. "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

  5630. "I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren't necessarily accurate or aren't particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer." - Eric Nam

  5631. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." - Ann Landers

  5632. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  5633. "I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing." - John Cleese

  5634. "I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER." - Kerry King

  5635. "The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational." - Asma Jahangir

  5636. "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison

  5637. "In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money." - Halsey

  5638. "You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive." - Lupe Fiasco

  5639. "I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use." - Julian Lennon

  5640. "That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy." - George Foreman

  5641. "Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning." - Jo Brand

  5642. "Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing." - Kurt Busch

  5643. "To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed." - Nat Turner

  5644. "I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips." - Macaulay Culkin

  5645. "We want all users to be safe on Roblox, and we will continue to invest in the safety of the game so it is a positive, productive, fun, and protected space for our community." - David Baszucki

  5646. "I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god." - Ville Valo

  5647. "I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that." - Selena Gomez

  5648. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  5649. "The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary." - Kendrick Lamar

  5650. "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  5651. "I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story." - Om Puri

  5652. "The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new." - Catherine Bell

  5653. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  5654. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright

  5655. "I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions." - Amber Riley

  5656. "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." - Henry David Thoreau

  5657. "Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody." - Troy Polamalu

  5658. "Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects." - Ian Ziering

  5659. "Winning is good but is better when it becomes a means of hope and positive change in the lives of those who are deprived." - Emmanuel Adebayor

  5660. "My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy." - Hasan Minhaj

  5661. "The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part." - Pamela Druckerman

  5662. "There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid." - Bonnie Hunt

  5663. "Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god." - Francis Picabia

  5664. "Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with people in transit to, or from, their home town." - Linda Colley

  5665. "But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite." - Honore de Balzac

  5666. "Success is dependent on effort." - Sophocles

  5667. "Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things." - Marie Rutkoski

  5668. "The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence." - Friedrich Schleiermacher

  5669. "Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what." - Shilpa Shinde

  5670. "My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe." - Sharon Needles

  5671. "And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy." - Feist

  5672. "Teach us to give and not to count the cost." - Saint Ignatius

  5673. "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." - George Bernard Shaw

  5674. "My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning." - Dakota Fanning

  5675. "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing." - Michael Gove

  5676. "What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth." - Benny Hinn

  5677. "The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting." - Hikaru Nakamura

  5678. "Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness." - Mo Rocca

  5679. "The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven." - Rick Warren

  5680. "I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you." - Sandra Bullock

  5681. "'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing." - Jerry Saltz

  5682. "At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future." - George Takei

  5683. "If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?" - Maeve Binchy

  5684. "Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read." - Wayne Swan

  5685. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl." - Lady Gaga

  5686. "If 'Heavy Rain' is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, 'Please keep making the same old stuff.'" - David Cage

  5687. "There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability." - Robert Green

  5688. "When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts." - Kajol

  5689. "I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide." - Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

  5690. "Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think." - Kevin Garnett

  5691. "If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too." - Ridley Scott

  5692. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

  5693. "The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  5694. "I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers." - Jessica Sanchez

  5695. "A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

  5696. "Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them." - Terence Stamp

  5697. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  5698. "My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever." - Charles Duke

  5699. "I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life." - Ashlee Simpson

  5700. "For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry." - Malaika Arora Khan

  5701. "When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting." - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  5702. "Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

  5703. "I've done yoga, and it's fun, but I'm not the kind of person that can wake up and do it every morning. It's like, I have to be in the mood." - Lily-Rose Depp

  5704. "We could hardly wait to get up in the morning." - Wilbur Wright

  5705. "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." - Lucy Larcom

  5706. "It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts." - Ian Brown

  5707. "I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts." - Queen Latifah

  5708. "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha." - Sloane Crosley

  5709. "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." - Henry David Thoreau

  5710. "My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life." - Devin Druid

  5711. "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

  5712. "I'm sponsored by the solar company Goal Zero, and they were gracious enough to install panels on my van and a nice battery system for the inside. I have lights and a fridge inside the van. And of course I had panels installed on my mom's house." - Alex Honnold

  5713. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  5714. "As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism." - David Novak

  5715. "Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation." - E. Stanley Jones

  5716. "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday." - Lawrence Tierney

  5717. "Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget." - Taraji P. Henson

  5718. "My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both." - Lily Collins

  5719. "Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech." - Ben Carson

  5720. "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season." - Evan Davis

  5721. "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary." - Bob Dylan

  5722. "'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical." - Jessie Mueller

  5723. "Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work." - Kobe Bryant

  5724. "Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact." - Jens Martin Skibsted

  5725. "My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know." - Elijah Cummings

  5726. "My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her." - Loni Anderson

  5727. "I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good." - Bill Murray

  5728. "I'm a humanist. I always believed, even with Cirque du Soliel, that this is my way to contribute to a better world. I believe I'm very privileged, but many people face the reality when they wake up in the morning of not having food or a glass of water. Life's been good to me, and I believe you have to feed the circle of life." - Guy Laliberte

  5729. "To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me." - Andrea Bocelli

  5730. "Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands." - Immanuel Kant

  5731. "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles

  5732. "I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies." - Richard Branson

  5733. "That is part of the problem, that lack of belief in yourself because you don't see success around you. I guess that breeds defeatism, so yes there does need to be resources out there and support that will nurture talent that I believe is there, and passion that I know is there." - Kano

  5734. "Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world." - Mary Garden

  5735. "I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting." - Jim Lampley

  5736. "For almost five years on 'Happy Days,' I have had a mom and pop and a brother who give me advice and help me just as my own parents and brothers and sisters do at home." - Erin Moran

  5737. "Every day brings new choices." - Martha Beck

  5738. "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

  5739. "My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman." - Jimmy O. Yang

  5740. "I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in." - Rachel Stevens

  5741. "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." - Jay Leno

  5742. "My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success." - Coy Bowles

  5743. "My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference." - Claire Saffitz

  5744. "The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols." - Ian Watson

  5745. "We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us." - Niko Kovac

  5746. "Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold." - Steven Sinofsky

  5747. "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." - Steven Seagal

  5748. "The exchange rate of the Rand against the dollar, pound or euro makes South Africa an attractive location. The positive side of this is it gives our artists and technicians an opportunity to work." - John Kani

  5749. "My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating." - Meghan Markle

  5750. "Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better." - Tony Levin

  5751. "Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods." - Genevieve Gorder

  5752. "Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!" - Gaby Hoffmann

  5753. "For practicing Christians, Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  5754. "Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen." - Wayne Huizenga

  5755. "Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India." - Chanda Kochhar

  5756. "In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it." - Charles Caleb Colton

  5757. "Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  5758. "T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." - Clement Clarke Moore

  5759. "In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success." - Arthur Helps

  5760. "When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you." - Charles Stanley

  5761. "I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!" - Vince Clarke

  5762. "I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work." - Kristen Stewart

  5763. "I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits." - Yaya Han

  5764. "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" - Jennifer Aniston

  5765. "I think a robot butler would be a great idea for certain things. But the idea of anybody coming into my bedroom and doing stuff for me, besides my wife and I - such as giving you tea in the morning - I just find a bit irksome." - John Torode

  5766. "One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad." - Jim DeMint

  5767. "I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!" - Hoda Kotb

  5768. "God has always opened up doors at the right time. He's closed doors at the right time." - Michael Chandler

  5769. "There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'" - Jane Goldman

  5770. "Mom would kill me if I showed my navel." - Brandy Norwood

  5771. "In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft." - Jenna Dewan

  5772. "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

  5773. "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark

  5774. "Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym." - Rachel Nichols

  5775. "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday." - John Clayton

  5776. "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

  5777. "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person." - R. Kelly

  5778. "You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity." - Rafael Nadal

  5779. "If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority." - Adam Grant

  5780. "My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out." - Jess Walter

  5781. "The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas." - Stanley A. McChrystal

  5782. "Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game." - Lisa Lopes

  5783. "I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that." - Max Weinberg

  5784. "In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out." - Chinua Achebe

  5785. "Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time." - Pamela Anderson

  5786. "You have to know why you get up every morning." - Dan Buettner

  5787. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  5788. "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." - George Washington Carver

  5789. "When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems." - Stephen Covey

  5790. "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." - John Lennon

  5791. "During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her." - Kendra Wilkinson

  5792. "Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly." - Frank Abagnale

  5793. "My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing." - David Ortiz

  5794. "I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God." - Rodney King

  5795. "Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day." - Ciara

  5796. "It's hard to keep moving forward, keep working, and keep your head up, but that's what strong women do. Especially being a mom, I can't fall apart." - Teresa Giudice

  5797. "In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!" - Angie Dickinson

  5798. "Act like you expect to get into the end zone." - Christopher Morley

  5799. "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions." - Stephen Harper

  5800. "I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children." - Mary J. Blige

  5801. "I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that." - Nagma

  5802. "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square." - Michelle Obama

  5803. "Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them." - Alison Sweeney

  5804. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington

  5805. "I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?" - Katrina Kaif

  5806. "The divisiveness that threatens the fabric of our nation - whether due to race, religion, political ideology, gender, sexual orientation, or other - must end." - Tulsi Gabbard

  5807. "Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children." - Dirk Benedict

  5808. "I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that goes in behind the scenes. That might mean not seeing your family or missing your mother's birthday; many players are so focused that they miss the birth of their children." - Alexis Sanchez

  5809. "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." - W. Clement Stone

  5810. "I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms." - Billy Graham

  5811. "A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is." - Nancy Kress

  5812. "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars." - Vincent Van Gogh

  5813. "The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you." - Bette Midler

  5814. "Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it." - Zendaya

  5815. "Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head." - A. R. Rahman

  5816. "Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal." - Sarah Bernhardt

  5817. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." - Rosa Parks

  5818. "When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television." - Justin Timberlake

  5819. "My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that." - Jason Aldean

  5820. "Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired." - Ian Fleming

  5821. "I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out." - Ann Patchett

  5822. "I was once that kid that needed a donation - that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn't able to pay for it." - Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

  5823. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  5824. "My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust." - Ron Reagan

  5825. "God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart." - Saint Bernard

  5826. "My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook." - Alex Guarnaschelli

  5827. "Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide." - Taiye Selasi

  5828. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  5829. "I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays." - Parineeti Chopra

  5830. "We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope." - Jim Lovell

  5831. "There's a new holiday tradition in my life, and it comes with an open door policy. Starting at 11 a.m. on Christmas Day, friends, family, whoever, is welcome to swing on through my place - I'll be cooking and drinking from morning till night." - Brad Leone

  5832. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  5833. "People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter." - Irena Sendler

  5834. "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." - Anatole France

  5835. "Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!" - Said Nursi

  5836. "If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to." - Joe Moore

  5837. "The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion." - Hamza Yusuf

  5838. "Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?" - The Ultimate Warrior

  5839. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

  5840. "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt

  5841. "The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore." - Cyril Connolly

  5842. "The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals." - Jonathan Lethem

  5843. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  5844. "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

  5845. "Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside." - Willard Scott

  5846. "No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  5847. "Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?" - Andrew W.K.

  5848. "When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one." - Dean Rusk

  5849. "Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs." - Sheena Easton

  5850. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  5851. "There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people." - Salman Rushdie

  5852. "A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel - God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross." - Don Willett

  5853. "When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!" - David Starr Jordan

  5854. "The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it." - William Osler

  5855. "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." - Richard Brautigan

  5856. "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." - Alexander Smith

  5857. "The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion." - Fred Allen

  5858. "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." - Irv Kupcinet

  5859. "I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel." - Michael Korda

  5860. "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." - Napoleon Hill

  5861. "Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin." - Hikaru Nakamura

  5862. "I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday." - Amy Weber

  5863. "Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington." - Tim Scott

  5864. "My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure." - Jimmy O. Yang

  5865. "Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence." - Marguerite Gardiner

  5866. "I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success." - Gloria Vanderbilt

  5867. "I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage." - Kid Cudi

  5868. "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy." - Christopher Hitchens

  5869. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  5870. "The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives." - Anita Sarkeesian

  5871. "We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  5872. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  5873. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  5874. "At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business." - Susan Wojcicki

  5875. "America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different." - Adora Svitak

  5876. "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." - Emily Dickinson

  5877. "I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you." - Kali Uchis

  5878. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

  5879. "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." - Phylicia Rashad

  5880. "Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back." - Mary Daly

  5881. "I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?" - Joey Jordison

  5882. "All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have." - Brandy Norwood

  5883. "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states." - Arthur Godfrey

  5884. "God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family." - Joel Osteen

  5885. "Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

  5886. "There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out." - Jay Samit

  5887. "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do." - Diana Lopez

  5888. "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh." - Benny Hinn

  5889. "I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me." - Moon Unit Zappa

  5890. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

  5891. "Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." - C. S. Lewis

  5892. "I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class." - Tucker Carlson

  5893. "I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe." - Dick Dale

  5894. "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself." - Robert Collier

  5895. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  5896. "The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model." - Anand Mahindra

  5897. "They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together." - Al Roker

  5898. "I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing." - Bobby Keys

  5899. "Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture." - Sue Wicks

  5900. "Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do." - Ralph Marston

  5901. "For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties." - Claire Fox

  5902. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

  5903. "Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?" - Tony Campolo

  5904. "I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym." - Ehud Olmert

  5905. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  5906. "I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat." - Ivanka Trump

  5907. "I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She's Swedish, so she loves pop music." - Nina Nesbitt

  5908. "I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts." - Mike Krzyzewski

  5909. "I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet." - Jose Saramago

  5910. "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

  5911. "The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal." - Yair Lapid

  5912. "I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people." - Pete Cashmore

  5913. "You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call." - Wayne Dyer

  5914. "I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field." - Matt Harvey

  5915. "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel

  5916. "'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible." - Laila Ali

  5917. "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs." - Tony Visconti

  5918. "I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'" - Summer Sanders

  5919. "Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us." - David Suzuki

  5920. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen

  5921. "When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that." - Swara Bhaskar

  5922. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  5923. "My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom." - Grace Potter

  5924. "'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone." - Tess Gerritsen

  5925. "I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I'm crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception." - Dave Ramsey

  5926. "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow." - Calvin Coolidge

  5927. "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt

  5928. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar

  5929. "As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props." - Nivin Pauly

  5930. "Christmas time, you're at home with your friends and your parents. You sit down around the table and just play Scrabble. It's a fun game for me." - Kyler Murray

  5931. "I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that." - Marie Helvin

  5932. "I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot." - James Arthur

  5933. "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." - Rose George

  5934. "And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity." - Nolan Ryan

  5935. "Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature." - John Burroughs

  5936. "If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum." - Romola Garai

  5937. "Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." - Alice Walker

  5938. "What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy." - Beth Hart

  5939. "Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way." - Charli D'Amelio

  5940. "What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing." - Rahul Dravid

  5941. "If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side." - Srikumar Rao

  5942. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  5943. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  5944. "Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational." - Andris Nelsons

  5945. "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it." - Elie Wiesel

  5946. "I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here." - Pope Francis

  5947. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

  5948. "You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver." - Hannah Kent

  5949. "Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive." - Lil B

  5950. "A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  5951. "Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none." - Joseph Smith, Jr.

  5952. "My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me." - Aerin Lauder

  5953. "In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules." - Elliott Abrams

  5954. "I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart." - Jason Derulo

  5955. "When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it." - Tracy Morgan

  5956. "Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion." - Lucretius

  5957. "In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good." - Jack Harbaugh

  5958. "My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!" - Laurie Hernandez

  5959. "I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I make spells in the morning when I put them on." - Alexa Chung

  5960. "The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child." - Larry Elder

  5961. "Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas." - Charles Dickens

  5962. "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top." - Margaret Thatcher

  5963. "I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place." - Kendrick Lamar

  5964. "I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent." - Tia Mowry

  5965. "'Monty Python' became my religion when I was 10. It led me out of the depths of darkness. I loved 'The Goodies,' too, and 'The Two Ronnies.' I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago." - Bob Odenkirk

  5966. "For it is in giving that we receive." - Francis of Assisi

  5967. "I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West." - Cupcakke

  5968. "Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries." - Said Musa

  5969. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  5970. "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven." - Alphonse de Lamartine

  5971. "God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye." - Mother Angelica

  5972. "I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative." - James A. Baldwin

  5973. "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." - Lao Tzu

  5974. "I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother." - Jenna Fischer

  5975. "My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque." - Denzel Washington

  5976. "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  5977. "I got a lot of positive people around me." - Dave Chappelle

  5978. "The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed." - John Oates

  5979. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  5980. "When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it." - Baron Davis

  5981. "Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  5982. "I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has." - Bill Gates

  5983. "When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!" - David Starr Jordan

  5984. "As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive." - LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  5985. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  5986. "We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions." - William McDonough

  5987. "Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person." - Kellie Pickler

  5988. "I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done." - Sushant Singh Rajput

  5989. "Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way." - Norman Geisler

  5990. "One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk." - Tess Gerritsen

  5991. "If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions." - Lawrence Wright

  5992. "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." - Nelson Algren

  5993. "Coffee... The caffeine in your morning coffee stops an enzyme called amylase from working correctly, which is located in your mouth and gut, and breaks down starchy carbs." - Eddie Hall

  5994. "I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound." - Johnny Marr

  5995. "With self-discipline most anything is possible." - Theodore Roosevelt

  5996. "I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'" - Nicole Kidman

  5997. "Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." - Marilyn vos Savant

  5998. "With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland." - Sheamus

  5999. "I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy." - Thalia

  6000. "We convince by our presence." - Walt Whitman

  6001. "I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation." - Wayne Dyer

  6002. "Trust in God - she will provide." - Emmeline Pankhurst

  6003. "Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone." - Rollo May

  6004. "The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things." - Condoleezza Rice

  6005. "Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again." - Beatrix Potter

  6006. "I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on the set of the film. That was the first time I had travelled to India, and it was a rollercoaster ride. I soon fell in love with the country." - Amy Jackson

  6007. "My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home." - Will Hurd

  6008. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  6009. "My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it." - Alex Lifeson

  6010. "If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits." - Ma Huateng

  6011. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  6012. "As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  6013. "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children." - Maxim Gorky

  6014. "There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times." - Zac Efron

  6015. "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind." - Marlee Matlin

  6016. "For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas." - Johnny Mathis

  6017. "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action." - Robert Shea

  6018. "One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!" - Mac DeMarco

  6019. "In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!" - Milo Yiannopoulos

  6020. "One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God." - Ramakrishna

  6021. "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress." - Kelly Clarkson

  6022. "Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech." - Ben Carson

  6023. "People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles." - Jose Carreras

  6024. "If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest." - Bill Maher

  6025. "I believe in God and his son, Jesus." - Lil Wayne

  6026. "The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party." - Steve Buscemi

  6027. "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them." - Vincent McNabb

  6028. "Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'" - John Madden

  6029. "My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore." - Rich Swann

  6030. "Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up." - Allen Klein

  6031. "Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story." - Joan Lingard

  6032. "Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had." - Billy Crystal

  6033. "My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time." - Jim Carrey

  6034. "Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'" - Anne McClain

  6035. "I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was." - Tabatha Coffey

  6036. "I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days." - Aaron Huey

  6037. "I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring." - Tara Westover

  6038. "That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'" - Jim Carrey

  6039. "There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is." - Jesse Ventura

  6040. "I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity." - Martin Seligman

  6041. "I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways." - Derek Blasberg

  6042. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  6043. "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  6044. "There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves." - Thomas S. Monson

  6045. "Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other." - Marvin Sapp

  6046. "God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia." - Russell Crowe

  6047. "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson

  6048. "Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish." - Alek Wek

  6049. "My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes." - Alia Bhatt

  6050. "That's my father's theme. Get up in the morning, 'hello, Dad.' 'Get a job, leave the food alone... Who took my car?' America, you young kids, get a job. All that sagging, the clothes hanging behind, that ain't nothing. Get a job. You want to be somebody, get a job." - John Witherspoon

  6051. "A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action." - Richard M. DeVos

  6052. "Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate." - Kevin Spacey

  6053. "I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life." - Amy Sedaris

  6054. "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible." - Isaiah Berlin

  6055. "Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude." - Gong Hyo-jin

  6056. "One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'" - Paul Dini

  6057. "Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc." - Renee Fleming

  6058. "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

  6059. "Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  6060. "I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday." - Nikki Reed

  6061. "A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society." - Pope Benedict XVI

  6062. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  6063. "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck

  6064. "As a mom, I'm always balancing my life. I want to teach people the way I balance it, and really teach women how to stay fit and take care of themselves." - Denise Austin

  6065. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  6066. "The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right." - Roisin Murphy

  6067. "I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad." - Jada Pinkett Smith

  6068. "I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement." - Tyler Perry

  6069. "For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic." - J. Courtney Sullivan

  6070. "Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done." - Bo Bennett

  6071. "I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide." - Dylan Lauren

  6072. "I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen." - Jake Owen

  6073. "I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do." - Bjork

  6074. "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  6075. "And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around." - Ashley Judd

  6076. "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi

  6077. "A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning." - Carl Jung

  6078. "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way." - Joel Osteen

  6079. "My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything." - Willam Belli

  6080. "Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God." - Billy Graham

  6081. "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." - Karl Barth

  6082. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  6083. "Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba

  6084. "With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie." - Charles Grodin

  6085. "True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well." - Bill Owens

  6086. "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

  6087. "Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God." - Tony Evans

  6088. "That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun." - Monica Seles

  6089. "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  6090. "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!" - Laurie Anderson

  6091. "We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day." - Lacey Chabert

  6092. "I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand." - Alicia Keys

  6093. "I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire." - Jason Reynolds

  6094. "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

  6095. "I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal." - Mohamed Al-Fayed

  6096. "I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side." - Debi Mazar

  6097. "European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion." - Virginia Postrel

  6098. "In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude." - Thomas Erskine

  6099. "My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion." - Kirk Douglas

  6100. "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." - Oscar Wilde

  6101. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  6102. "My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad." - Matt Damon

  6103. "If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers." - George Muller

  6104. "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." - Rose George

  6105. "I love being a mom. I love singing. Why can't you have both? A lot of people would say you can't, but I think you can balance it; if you work hard, and you plan everything out properly, it works." - Kyla Reid

  6106. "We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize." - John Henrik Clarke

  6107. "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God." - Elizabeth I

  6108. "I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success." - Mary Berry

  6109. "My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me." - Dennis Wilson

  6110. "It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it." - Sylvia Plath

  6111. "Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." - Larry King

  6112. "Get up every morning, tell yourself you are beautiful and gear up to win!" - Manushi Chhillar

  6113. "God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that." - Clayton Kershaw

  6114. "Only stupid people are changed by success." - Jurgen Klopp

  6115. "My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day." - Demi Lovato

  6116. "That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic." - Monty Don

  6117. "My name is Linus, and I am your God." - Linus Torvalds

  6118. "Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good." - Lee DeWyze

  6119. "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." - Henry Ford

  6120. "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room." - Jennifer Lopez

  6121. "No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed." - Godfrey Winn

  6122. "That's what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that's the way our country is - no matter what culture you come from, you can come to Australia and practise your religion, you can practise your beliefs, and you shouldn't be judged for it." - Adam Goodes

  6123. "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross." - William Barclay

  6124. "The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want." - Phyllis Schlafly

  6125. "Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well." - R. Madhavan

  6126. "My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom." - Donna Karan

  6127. "When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb." - Gene Tierney

  6128. "When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions." - Poo Bear

  6129. "Love the giver more than the gift." - Brigham Young

  6130. "My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'" - Zoe Kravitz

  6131. "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion." - Patrick Henry

  6132. "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten

  6133. "The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God." - Antoni Gaudi

  6134. "One of the things that Marjorie has done has given me the joy of family. It's a joy I never really knew. I spent a long time being lonely and hiding, and now, at Christmas, there's this huge family. That's something that's very new to me. And very special." - Joe Walsh

  6135. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  6136. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  6137. "Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe." - Marc Guggenheim

  6138. "There's definitely something special about a working birthday, it's the perfect way to bring in the new birthday year!" - Diana Penty

  6139. "The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out." - Solomon Burke

  6140. "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges." - T. D. Jakes

  6141. "When deeds speak, words are nothing." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  6142. "Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized." - Jidenna

  6143. "The night before games, I try to get some shots up. Early on the game day, I come early in the morning to try to get some shots up. I just try to do the same things: go through the scouting, watch some clips before the game, just try to get my body ready." - Giannis Antetokounmpo

  6144. "I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it." - Nathaniel Philbrick

  6145. "It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." - Amelia Barr

  6146. "I think that success is having fun." - Bruno Mars

  6147. "Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science." - Muhammad Iqbal

  6148. "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

  6149. "Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better." - Stefon Diggs

  6150. "Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym." - Rodney King

  6151. "In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge." - Anthony Levandowski

  6152. "I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working." - Lesley Gore

  6153. "As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in the economy, this leads to a kind of disorientation and loss of community and identity. That void can be filled through constructive and positive things, like community involvement or family." - Pete Buttigieg

  6154. "When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey." - Ray Davies

  6155. "I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking." - Anthony Bourdain

  6156. "My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud." - Astro

  6157. "I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper." - Alan Moore

  6158. "Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament." - Monica Seles

  6159. "When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  6160. "I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged." - Emma Watson

  6161. "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them." - Colin Powell

  6162. "When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did." - Hans Matheson

  6163. "Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing." - Chris Gardner

  6164. "Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic." - Biz Stone

  6165. "I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does." - Victoria Beckham

  6166. "People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working." - Elon Musk

  6167. "Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion." - Michael Burry

  6168. "Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." - Octavia E. Butler

  6169. "Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite." - Joe Green

  6170. "I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said 'oh, you need surgery,' it was really weird - it was appendicitis." - Emma Willis

  6171. "My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party." - Robert Webb

  6172. "I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know." - Ice Cube

  6173. "I think we just need to keep moving forward in a positive way." - Ray J

  6174. "I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party." - Kirstie Alley

  6175. "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." - Ambrose Bierce

  6176. "I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message." - Garrett Neff

  6177. "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson

  6178. "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success." - Mark Skousen

  6179. "People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed." - Lee Greenwood

  6180. "When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano." - Herbie Hancock

  6181. "You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition." - Nicki Minaj

  6182. "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not." - Ursula K. Le Guin

  6183. "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion." - John Keegan

  6184. "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

  6185. "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark

  6186. "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." - Aristotle

  6187. "I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more." - Mariska Hargitay

  6188. "Success to me is being a good person, treating people well." - David LaChapelle

  6189. "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either." - Tyler Perry

  6190. "I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!" - Vince Clarke

  6191. "I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best." - Jerry Hall

  6192. "For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates." - Peter Navarro

  6193. "I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken." - Robert Kiyosaki

  6194. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  6195. "I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life." - Mike Yaconelli

  6196. "Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator." - Joseph Murray

  6197. "I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous." - Rachel Khoo

  6198. "If I'd lived in Bristol, I'd probably be doing building site stuff, plastering. Probably not the plastering. It would have been mixing. I could always get work from friends who did construction. But I wasn't into getting up at seven in the morning." - Tricky

  6199. "Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan." - Alexander Nix

  6200. "I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!" - Adriana Lima

  6201. "Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'" - Sean Covey

  6202. "What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power." - Steve-O

  6203. "The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard." - Glennon Doyle Melton

  6204. "If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be." - Willow Smith

  6205. "I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I'm crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception." - Dave Ramsey

  6206. "Honestly, sometimes, it takes a negative to bring about a positive." - Kirstin Maldonado

  6207. "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." - Ray Bradbury

  6208. "Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself." - Caroline Ghosn

  6209. "Roast potatoes - I can't say no. At Christmas, I reach over for the fifth or sixth one, and I think I could keep going until I explode." - Nicola Walker

  6210. "I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better." - Jean Nidetch

  6211. "I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'" - Jimmy Fallon

  6212. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  6213. "I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort." - Jewel

  6214. "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." - Elie Wiesel

  6215. "My message is that God is a good God." - Joel Osteen

  6216. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  6217. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  6218. "In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble." - Eva Longoria

  6219. "To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." - Victor Hugo

  6220. "Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious." - Will Poulter

  6221. "Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season." - Thomas S. Monson

  6222. "I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise." - Adrian McKinty

  6223. "The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt." - Derek Fisher

  6224. "I count the weeks and days before my birthday." - Parineeti Chopra

  6225. "I understand Christmas, and I understand Easter. But Halloween is one of those things where, if you don't grow with it? The French, they tried Halloween for a few years, and I think they're dropping it." - Jacques Torres

  6226. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  6227. "All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut." - Paul Engle

  6228. "It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them." - James Bovard

  6229. "If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned." - Allu Arjun

  6230. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  6231. "In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good." - Jack Harbaugh

  6232. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

  6233. "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis

  6234. "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  6235. "Belief creates the actual fact." - William James

  6236. "It's the biggest thing in the world in many ways, football. People don't want to talk about politics. They don't want to talk about religion. They want to talk about football - wherever you go." - Glenn Hoddle

  6237. "Lower taxes, less regulations, less lawsuits, deals that support U.S. manufacturers is all very positive." - John Paulson

  6238. "My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young." - Paulina Porizkova

  6239. "The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds." - John Niven

  6240. "The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music." - Matisyahu

  6241. "My parents made a great sacrifice to make sure that we had something wonderful at Christmas, and through the help of the state and others, we were able to have a good meal." - Jesse White

  6242. "The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex." - Hugh Hefner

  6243. "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

  6244. "I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it." - Willie Geist

  6245. "Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" - Karen Armstrong

  6246. "My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness." - Sushant Singh Rajput

  6247. "Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  6248. "I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor." - Trai Byers

  6249. "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln

  6250. "If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance." - Ralph Marston

  6251. "It's almost always possible to be honest and positive." - Naval Ravikant

  6252. "I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." - Henry Rollins

  6253. "My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it." - Omari Hardwick

  6254. "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints." - Bobby McFerrin

  6255. "My mom was always there. Even if she got off work late sometimes, I still went to practice, whether I was 30 minutes late, 45 minutes late... I was still going to practice." - Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

  6256. "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies." - Erich Fromm

  6257. "Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!" - John Hughes

  6258. "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad." - will.i.am

  6259. "Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time." - Pamela Anderson

  6260. "Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!" - Joseph Gatt

  6261. "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  6262. "When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them." - Michael Morpurgo

  6263. "If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be." - Willow Smith

  6264. "In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning." - William Hull

  6265. "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Tony Robbins

  6266. "I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there." - Evan Rachel Wood

  6267. "I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  6268. "I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." - Steven Wright

  6269. "My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper." - Kimberly Schlapman

  6270. "My life is better with every year of living it." - Rachel Maddow

  6271. "I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time." - Jeremy Corbyn

  6272. "I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself." - Carmelo Anthony

  6273. "I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands." - Vernon Davis

  6274. "Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality." - Malala Yousafzai

  6275. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  6276. "We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster." - Marianne Williamson

  6277. "Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am." - Sasha Grey

  6278. "Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah." - Meir Soloveichik

  6279. "I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful." - Winnie Harlow

  6280. "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense." - Joyce Meyer

  6281. "First I wanted number seven since my roll number in school was seven. But, someone was already wearing jersey number seven. Then a BCCI manager said I should take 18 since my birthday is on 18 July. At that time, I didn't know that Virat Kohli also wears number 18." - Smriti Mandhana

  6282. "A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion." - Hugo Black

  6283. "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God." - Armstrong Williams

  6284. "I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it." - Tyra Banks

  6285. "By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing." - Abhishek Bachchan

  6286. "My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream." - Daniel Bruhl

  6287. "The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'" - Spike Milligan

  6288. "Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer." - Phil Robertson

  6289. "As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers." - Juan Gabriel

  6290. "I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways - the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with." - David Hogg

  6291. "With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate." - Joe Morton

  6292. "There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen." - Jim Lovell

  6293. "In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad." - Jean-Georges Vongerichten

  6294. "Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment." - Janet Evanovich

  6295. "What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?" - Delmore Schwartz

  6296. "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham." - Anna Sewell

  6297. "Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  6298. "I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them." - Joe Piscopo

  6299. "So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends." - David Strathairn

  6300. "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe." - Norman Vincent Peale

  6301. "The groves were God's first temples." - William C. Bryant

  6302. "Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  6303. "Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels." - Thomas Traherne

  6304. "My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way." - Christen Press

  6305. "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

  6306. "Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba

  6307. "My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year." - Amar'e Stoudemire

  6308. "Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind." - Clive Bell

  6309. "My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish." - Harold Pinter

  6310. "I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me." - Marcus Samuelsson

  6311. "At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming." - Nicholas Lea

  6312. "Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path." - Anthony Joshua

  6313. "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

  6314. "My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up." - Enda Kenny

  6315. "Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow." - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

  6316. "Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  6317. "I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved." - Pierce Brosnan

  6318. "I just thank God for all of the blessings." - James Brown

  6319. "The things that we love tell us what we are." - Thomas Aquinas

  6320. "Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning." - Rob Sheffield

  6321. "There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." - O. Henry

  6322. "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it." - Tricia Helfer

  6323. "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success." - Samuel Goldwyn

  6324. "My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat." - Alain Ducasse

  6325. "My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache." - Brian Greene

  6326. "I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother." - Sheridan Smith

  6327. "Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God." - Henri Nouwen

  6328. "The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart." - Henry Ward Beecher

  6329. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  6330. "I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more." - Mariska Hargitay

  6331. "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln

  6332. "God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world." - Arthur Peacocke

  6333. "I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book." - Philip Roth

  6334. "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." - Elie Wiesel

  6335. "Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles." - Edwin Louis Cole

  6336. "Christmas in the Ramsay house is always a noisy chaotic time, but I love it!" - Tana Ramsay

  6337. "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  6338. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  6339. "I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions." - Traci Bingham

  6340. "I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class." - Stacey Farber

  6341. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck

  6342. "I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all." - John Daly

  6343. "I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great." - Shameik Moore

  6344. "JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but more than that it prepared me for the academic scene at a university." - Larry Johnson

  6345. "Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time." - Tove Jansson

  6346. "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

  6347. "I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982." - Lesley Nicol

  6348. "I miss my mom and dad. They brought me into this world and I wish they were with me on my birthday. So I don't celebrate it much." - Sonu Sood

  6349. "'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families." - Peter Billingsley

  6350. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa

  6351. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  6352. "I just thank God for all of the blessings." - James Brown

  6353. "When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box." - Philippe Petit

  6354. "During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends." - Monica Johnson

  6355. "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity." - Cesar Chavez

  6356. "We are against politics of religion and caste." - Atishi

  6357. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  6358. "All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude." - Rose Namajunas

  6359. "Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it." - John Waters

  6360. "We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too." - Helen Hayes

  6361. "One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech." - Ian Brown

  6362. "My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round." - Cindy Margolis

  6363. "My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to." - Hannah Simone

  6364. "Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children." - Susan Burton

  6365. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." - Mahatma Gandhi

  6366. "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Khalil Gibran

  6367. "I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries." - Anderson Paak

  6368. "The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift." - Chris Wood

  6369. "Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward." - Denzel Washington

  6370. "My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems." - Rony Abovitz

  6371. "I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas." - Martin Freeman

  6372. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  6373. "I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something." - Andy Biersack

  6374. "I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational." - Paloma Picasso

  6375. "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food." - Sandra Lee

  6376. "You can't dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things, but having said that, WWE is at the forefront of a women's evolution in the world, and what you can't do is effect change anywhere by staying away from it." - Triple H

  6377. "What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power." - Steve-O

  6378. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion." - Robert Runcie

  6379. "Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs." - Michael Leunig

  6380. "International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports." - Ash Sarkar

  6381. "The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love." - Michael Buble

  6382. "I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale." - Robert H. Schuller

  6383. "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell

  6384. "My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing." - Chris Brown

  6385. "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do." - Martin Lawrence

  6386. "The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation." - Christopher Buckley

  6387. "I'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can." - Princess Nokia

  6388. "When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday." - Charli XCX

  6389. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  6390. "I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything." - Zoe Bell

  6391. "The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is." - Jupiter Hammon

  6392. "I've been dealing with racism since I was a little kid! My dad's super black, from Puerto Rico. Then my mom's super white - she's Puerto Rican too, but she grew up in Milwaukee. As a Latino in the U.S. I've seen how we are treated differently based on the color of our skin." - Anuel AA

  6393. "The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team." - Jocko Willink

  6394. "I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears." - Steve Prefontaine

  6395. "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

  6396. "There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God." - John Calvin

  6397. "God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends." - Ethel Watts Mumford

  6398. "I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!" - Anne Murray

  6399. "I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood." - Taylor Swift

  6400. "The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways." - Paul Kantner

  6401. "The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better." - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

  6402. "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." - Charles J. Givens

  6403. "We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me." - Petra Collins

  6404. "When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit." - Jeff Dunham

  6405. "Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them." - John C. Maxwell

  6406. "My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I'll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge." - Raheem Sterling

  6407. "You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'" - Jerry Seinfeld

  6408. "The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday." - Rick Springfield

  6409. "I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments." - Juan Mata

  6410. "One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'" - Michio Kaku

  6411. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  6412. "Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba

  6413. "It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men." - Colman Domingo

  6414. "I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion." - Adam Ferrara

  6415. "Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body." - Garry Moore

  6416. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  6417. "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

  6418. "That is what Christmas should be about, I think - togetherness and playfulness. It's like a game." - Billy Howle

  6419. "My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees." - Dylan Lauren

  6420. "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them." - John Boehner

  6421. "There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved." - Dean Devlin

  6422. "I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back." - David Hasselhoff

  6423. "'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure." - Fabrizio Moreira

  6424. "I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion." - Ricardo Montalban

  6425. "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt

  6426. "I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me." - Brian Posehn

  6427. "My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'" - Mitchell Trubisky

  6428. "I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?" - Joey Jordison

  6429. "Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary." - Bindi Irwin

  6430. "The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart." - Anita Diament

  6431. "I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again." - Ben Hogan

  6432. "Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have." - Joyce Meyer

  6433. "Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment." - Imran Amed

  6434. "I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold." - Dan Brown

  6435. "People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" - Nhat Hanh

  6436. "Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God." - Sean Connery

  6437. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields

  6438. "I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god." - Ville Valo

  6439. "The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'" - Max Lucado

  6440. "I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito." - Gene Wilder

  6441. "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'" - Billy Graham

  6442. "I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world." - Britney Spears

  6443. "My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her." - Charlie Haden

  6444. "Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family." - Samantha Isler

  6445. "Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way." - Charli D'Amelio

  6446. "The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'" - Max Lucado

  6447. "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." - William Inge

  6448. "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." - Barack Obama

  6449. "I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me." - Laura Harrier

  6450. "I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can." - Lily Cole

  6451. "I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender." - Brian Eno

  6452. "Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am." - Sasha Grey

  6453. "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." - Vladimir Putin

  6454. "My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in." - Les Dawson

  6455. "Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth." - Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  6456. "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." - Johannes Brahms

  6457. "Don't just count your years, make your years count." - George Meredith

  6458. "My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set." - Ari Graynor

  6459. "I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later." - Philip Green

  6460. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  6461. "Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'." - Lindsay Lohan

  6462. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  6463. "My mother always bought our birthday gifts." - Bruce Eric Kaplan

  6464. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

  6465. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  6466. "As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning." - Neil Gaiman

  6467. "When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday." - Clive Thompson

  6468. "Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend." - David Joseph Schwartz

  6469. "What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing." - Will Oldham

  6470. "Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot." - Ashley Scott

  6471. "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action." - Robert Shea

  6472. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  6473. "God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble." - Ezra Taft Benson

  6474. "I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally." - David Rockefeller

  6475. "When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight." - Peggy Fleming

  6476. "I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area." - Kane Brown

  6477. "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

  6478. "You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success." - Marlee Matlin

  6479. "You want to focus on the fans and on the positive energy that you receive from them." - Lance Stroll

  6480. "Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'" - Elif Batuman

  6481. "Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions." - Mircea Eliade

  6482. "There will always be different opinions. Some might argue you should retire after a big success and others that the best time is after a big defeat." - Toni Kroos

  6483. "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face." - Ronald Reagan

  6484. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  6485. "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace." - George Santayana

  6486. "We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard." - Clive Barker

  6487. "My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower." - Blake Lively

  6488. "My dear friend, clear your mind of cant." - Samuel Johnson

  6489. "I don't know what that is because to me, Feb. 14 is Rob Thomas' birthday, and that's only what I acknowledge it as. I just like to celebrate that as Rob Thomas' birthday." - Nikki Glaser

  6490. "I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness." - Sherri Shepherd

  6491. "My mom raised us like we were still in the Philippines. She tried to cure everything at home like a real Filipino woman. You had to die to go to the hospital. My mom cured everything with Vicks VapoRub. I should've died nine times when I was a kid!" - Jo Koy

  6492. "My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe." - Sharon Needles

  6493. "When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see." - Michael Jackson

  6494. "Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow." - Dylan Lauren

  6495. "My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything." - Isabelle Huppert

  6496. "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money." - Johnny Cash

  6497. "A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past." - Donald McCaig

  6498. "You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about." - Sophia Loren

  6499. "We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself." - Mother Angelica

  6500. "Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy." - Liv Tyler

  6501. "My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older." - SZA

  6502. "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents." - Adele

  6503. "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits." - Gustav Klimt

  6504. "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else." - Angie Stone

  6505. "I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties." - Cindy Crawford

  6506. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." - Konrad Lorenz

  6507. "You have to know why you get up every morning." - Dan Buettner

  6508. "We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body." - Joel Fuhrman

  6509. "I just say to anyone in life or in sport, don't let defeat bother you and don't let no one say you can't. Stay focused and stay positive and keep working hard." - Rocky Fielding

  6510. "I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling." - Yolanda Hadid

  6511. "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." - Napoleon Hill

  6512. "I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad." - Jada Pinkett Smith

  6513. "When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'" - Valerie Harper

  6514. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  6515. "I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips." - Macaulay Culkin

  6516. "Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful." - B. F. Skinner

  6517. "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled." - Carly Fiorina

  6518. "While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun." - Jean Chatzky

  6519. "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain

  6520. "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." - James Madison

  6521. "The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'" - Viola Davis

  6522. "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God." - George Washington

  6523. "When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple." - Paulo Coelho

  6524. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire

  6525. "Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers." - Victoria Osteen

  6526. "I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere." - Rebecca Romijn

  6527. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  6528. "The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  6529. "I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success." - Jack Welch

  6530. "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." - ASAP Rocky

  6531. "I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies." - Vladimir Putin

  6532. "I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can." - Tichina Arnold

  6533. "I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day." - Ellie Kemper

  6534. "I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here." - Pope Francis

  6535. "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!" - Ken Hensley

  6536. "They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together." - Al Roker

  6537. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most." - Ann Landers

  6538. "People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it." - Goldie Hawn

  6539. "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers." - E. W. Howe

  6540. "Breakfast is my favorite way to start off the day. This is usually what I order every morning on set: egg whites scrambled with broccoli and a side of well-done turkey bacon. Sometimes I add a bit of feta cheese." - Cassie Scerbo

  6541. "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake." - Basil Hume

  6542. "I want people to get positive energy from our music." - Suga

  6543. "The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it." - William Osler

  6544. "The UFC are doing a tremendous job of promoting the sport worldwide. The views about the sport haven't always been so positive here in the Holland, but it's nice to see change and to see the UFC come to Holland, and everyone been really enthusiastic about it." - Alistair Overeem

  6545. "Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays." - Michael Birch

  6546. "My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes." - Alia Bhatt

  6547. "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." - Mahatma Gandhi

  6548. "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people." - John Henrik Clarke

  6549. "My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman." - Jimmy O. Yang

  6550. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  6551. "Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions." - Orson Welles

  6552. "Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards." - Brad Thor

  6553. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake

  6554. "Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ." - Monica Johnson

  6555. "The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity." - Tom Peters

  6556. "The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound." - Naveen Tewari

  6557. "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent." - Barbara Ehrenreich

  6558. "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell

  6559. "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge

  6560. "I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn." - Muddy Waters

  6561. "Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory." - Will Durant

  6562. "My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure." - Jimmy O. Yang

  6563. "I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'" - Ireland Baldwin

  6564. "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck

  6565. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  6566. "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  6567. "When people hear the phrase 'risk-taker', two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who's reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back." - Norman Swan

  6568. "When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends." - Thomas P. O'Neill

  6569. "I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit." - Helen Mirren

  6570. "I'm a firm believer that every morning brings a new opportunity for me to conquer the day." - Victoria Arlen

  6571. "It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people." - Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

  6572. "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." - Harvey Weinstein

  6573. "I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning." - Warren Kole

  6574. "My father discovered that our family had made long-case clocks in Warwickshire in the early 18th century. He managed to track down a fine example through an English antiquarian and horologist and gifted it to me for my 30th birthday." - Alexander Gilkes

  6575. "For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration." - Sheherazade Goldsmith

  6576. "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it." - Mitt Romney

  6577. "I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God." - Tony Dungy

  6578. "My mom always plays Madonna in the car, so I was kind of familiar with what she was into in the '80s." - Sadie Sink

  6579. "As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since." - Paul George

  6580. "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale

  6581. "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Walter Scott

  6582. "There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves." - Thomas S. Monson

  6583. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  6584. "There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up." - Bruce Springsteen

  6585. "Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet." - Joni Ernst

  6586. "Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves." - Paul Tournier

  6587. "If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation." - Jazz Jennings

  6588. "Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman." - Malala Yousafzai

  6589. "Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done." - Robin S. Sharma

  6590. "Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it." - Paul Giamatti

  6591. "It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them." - James Bovard

  6592. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

  6593. "I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'" - Hunter Hayes

  6594. "Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning." - Virat Kohli

  6595. "If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people." - Abu Bakr

  6596. "I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her." - Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  6597. "People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles." - Jose Carreras

  6598. "My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures." - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  6599. "I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God." - Thomas Mallon

  6600. "Being surrounded with such positive people always helps." - Donovan Bailey

  6601. "Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options." - Sharon Salzberg

  6602. "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." - Saint Augustine

  6603. "I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do." - Nelson Mandela

  6604. "The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it." - Minna Antrim

  6605. "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents." - Adele

  6606. "Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations." - Ken Ham

  6607. "Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude." - Kirsten Sweetland

  6608. "I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity." - Martin Seligman

  6609. "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." - Amy Grant

  6610. "I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy." - Jonathan Kozol

  6611. "I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several." - Alastair Reynolds

  6612. "It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you." - Joel Osteen

  6613. "I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around." - Victoria Pendleton

  6614. "Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something." - Liza Minnelli

  6615. "Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment." - Sally Quinn

  6616. "Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship." - Robert Webb

  6617. "God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own." - Johannes Tauler

  6618. "I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is." - John Oliver

  6619. "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles

  6620. "I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me." - Daron Malakian

  6621. "If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology." - Jay Leno

  6622. "Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home." - Arjun Kapoor

  6623. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  6624. "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved." - Samuel Smiles

  6625. "If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes." - Persis Khambatta

  6626. "Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked." - Ellen G. White

  6627. "My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival." - Yngwie Malmsteen

  6628. "I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well." - Hale Irwin

  6629. "My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job." - Ed Bradley

  6630. "In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year." - Julian Baggini

  6631. "I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff - sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad." - Chris Weidman

  6632. "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams

  6633. "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs." - Diane Abbott

  6634. "When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve." - Jane Lynch

  6635. "It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things." - Tom DeLonge

  6636. "My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible." - Oliver Hudson

  6637. "I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck." - Joel Edgerton

  6638. "I play for God and only God." - Memphis Depay

  6639. "Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen." - Mary J. Blige

  6640. "I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best." - Jerry Hall

  6641. "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." - Confucius

  6642. "I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy." - Kevin James

  6643. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." - George Horace Lorimer

  6644. "When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much." - Adam Carolla

  6645. "On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver." - William Bartram

  6646. "I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning." - Richard Burton

  6647. "Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials." - Dan Savage

  6648. "I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it." - Aleksandar Hemon

  6649. "I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute." - Betty Williams

  6650. "One of the weirdest things about Christmas in this country is that people love to watch 'EastEnders' when everyone's in floods of tears and there's a huge row. I don't know if watching it makes them feel better about their own day. Personally, I would rather try to be a bit more positive!" - Michael McIntyre

  6651. "My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie." - Douglas Conant

  6652. "If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too." - Ridley Scott

  6653. "The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking." - Deepak Chopra

  6654. "I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours." - David Mixner

  6655. "I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go." - Lee Trevino

  6656. "Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales." - Rose George

  6657. "I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive." - Wyclef Jean

  6658. "Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it." - George Foreman

  6659. "Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out." - Julian Fellowes

  6660. "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." - Henry Kissinger

  6661. "I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me." - Shashi Tharoor

  6662. "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee

  6663. "The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday." - Rick Springfield

  6664. "Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting." - Zig Ziglar

  6665. "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store." - Dr. Seuss

  6666. "I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome." - Helen McCrory

  6667. "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind." - Marlee Matlin

  6668. "My father, Rodolfo, worked as a train conductor and that's how we came to live in the railway car. The Government owned it, and we paid rent on it. Back then I would wake up at 4 in the morning and run through the streets, selling newspapers. I'd scream out, 'Sol, Debate, Noreste.' Those were the papers I sold." - Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.

  6669. "'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing." - Jerry Saltz

  6670. "I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia." - David O. Selznick

  6671. "When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day." - Lynda Resnick

  6672. "The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  6673. "I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me." - Naveen Jain

  6674. "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." - T. S. Eliot

  6675. "When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office." - Peter Billingsley

  6676. "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support." - Ellen DeGeneres

  6677. "I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on." - Sam Heughan

  6678. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  6679. "The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things." - Condoleezza Rice

  6680. "Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person." - Alana Stewart

  6681. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

  6682. "I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits." - Yaya Han

  6683. "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." - Audre Lorde

  6684. "I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday." - Daniel Handler

  6685. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

  6686. "Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects." - Ian Ziering

  6687. "After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise." - Shirley Jones

  6688. "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion." - John Keegan

  6689. "The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds." - John Niven

  6690. "For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road." - Bubba Wallace

  6691. "I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  6692. "When I retired from the NFL, my son was born on my birthday two weeks later, which is Valentine's Day. Imagine having a son born on your birthday." - Jim Kelly

  6693. "To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law." - William Tyndale

  6694. "Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success." - Charles Kennedy

  6695. "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?" - Desmond Tutu

  6696. "My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up." - Jake Tapper

  6697. "Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation." - Randy Forbes

  6698. "You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself." - Jean-Claude Van Damme

  6699. "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." - Soledad O'Brien

  6700. "When I see the kind of passion Sir Alex shows, it is hard to believe he is about to celebrate his 71st birthday." - Edwin van der Sar

  6701. "Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones." - Richard Dawkins

  6702. "Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter." - Josh McDowell

  6703. "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush." - John Gibbon

  6704. "Everybody should plant a tree on any happy occasion or birthday and celebrate." - Sayaji Shinde

  6705. "The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." - Thomas Carlyle

  6706. "As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing." - Mike Wallace

  6707. "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God." - Billy Graham

  6708. "We never considered Christmas a holiday because the budget was really tight, so Christmas was just a usual day for us." - Pia Wurtzbach

  6709. "God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard." - Aeschylus

  6710. "Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within." - Brad Pitt

  6711. "My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world." - Casey Wilson

  6712. "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." - Molly Ivins

  6713. "I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love." - Jordan Fisher

  6714. "Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth." - May-Britt Moser

  6715. "I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts." - Suzi Quatro

  6716. "I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept." - M.I.A.

  6717. "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much." - Elbert Hubbard

  6718. "I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds." - Jonathan Tucker

  6719. "It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things." - Tom DeLonge

  6720. "My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family." - Julie Roberts

  6721. "Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket." - Kirstin Maldonado

  6722. "'Monty Python' became my religion when I was 10. It led me out of the depths of darkness. I loved 'The Goodies,' too, and 'The Two Ronnies.' I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago." - Bob Odenkirk

  6723. "I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive message that women of all sizes really need to adopt." - Jameela Jamil

  6724. "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad." - will.i.am

  6725. "We're not girls who lunch unless it's a birthday or special occasion." - Kathy Hilton

  6726. "Til the day I didn't play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members." - Virender Sehwag

  6727. "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." - Bo Bennett

  6728. "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights." - Jay London

  6729. "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else." - Jessie J

  6730. "You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body." - Shawn Achor

  6731. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  6732. "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch

  6733. "I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being." - Osric Chau

  6734. "I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness." - Martin Seligman

  6735. "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  6736. "I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs." - Simon Kinberg

  6737. "I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife's better judgment." - Terry Zwigoff

  6738. "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!" - O. Henry

  6739. "Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba

  6740. "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." - John Keats

  6741. "Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  6742. "My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from." - Ella Mai

  6743. "We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?" - Nana Patekar

  6744. "There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'" - Chuck Schumer

  6745. "Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind." - Ron Ben-Israel

  6746. "I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns." - John Tesh

  6747. "My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things." - Kate Clinton

  6748. "By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!" - Alfred Enoch

  6749. "I try to get in two runs during the week, after the 'Today' show, probably around 1 or 2 o'clock, Tuesday, Thursday. Then Saturday or Sunday, I do my longer runs and try to do it in the morning." - Al Roker

  6750. "I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year." - David Friedman

  6751. "The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation." - John Torode

  6752. "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free." - Ray Manzarek

  6753. "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?" - Desmond Tutu

  6754. "If you take the duality of things - like sunny-sounding music with weird lyrics on it - it makes this dichotomy. I've never had that because when I make music, I make major chords, happy-sounding stuff, and my lyrics are positive." - Mod Sun

  6755. "My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired." - Kiran Bedi

  6756. "I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways." - Derek Blasberg

  6757. "Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question." - Jack White

  6758. "Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have." - Rod Lurie

  6759. "I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story." - Om Puri

  6760. "My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears." - Riff Raff

  6761. "Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation." - Randy Forbes

  6762. "A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health." - Ellen G. White

  6763. "When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever." - Garry Marshall

  6764. "In our family a whole ham on the bone would be bought three days before Christmas, and then stored in a pillow case and left in the fridge so anyone can take the huge thing out and slice it." - John Torode

  6765. "Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house." - Malik Yoba

  6766. "We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'" - Christina Hendricks

  6767. "As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7." - Harriet Walter

  6768. "You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." - Zig Ziglar

  6769. "I start small. I'm kind to people. I say please, I say thank you, and I always try to be encouraging and positive." - Big Show

  6770. "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." - Benjamin Franklin

  6771. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  6772. "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan

  6773. "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets." - Mel Brooks

  6774. "We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success." - Henry Rollins

  6775. "Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind." - Ron Ben-Israel

  6776. "I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant." - Queen Latifah

  6777. "Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'" - Alan Colmes

  6778. "Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career." - Patty Smyth

  6779. "We convince by our presence." - Walt Whitman

  6780. "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

  6781. "You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools." - Mike Gallagher

  6782. "Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world." - Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  6783. "As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini." - Alessia Cara

  6784. "What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy." - Beth Hart

  6785. "If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional." - Angelina Jolie

  6786. "I exercise six days a week for one hour in the morning." - Akkineni Nagarjuna

  6787. "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Rabindranath Tagore

  6788. "Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended." - Keith Thibodeaux

  6789. "My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength." - Justin Trudeau

  6790. "Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure." - Mel Gibson

  6791. "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." - Erskine Bowles

  6792. "The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book." - James Rollins

  6793. "I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that." - Marie Helvin

  6794. "I did some bad stuff. I don't remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone's got gifts and I can't find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn't' bring me anything because I wasn't good." - Rudy Gobert

  6795. "God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers." - DeMarcus Cousins

  6796. "When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing." - Zendaya

  6797. "Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever." - Michael W. Smith

  6798. "When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!" - Todrick Hall

  6799. "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." - Ulysses S. Grant

  6800. "Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone." - Kevin Hart

  6801. "I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy." - Marcus Luttrell

  6802. "I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being." - Osric Chau

  6803. "Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  6804. "Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love." - Michelle Phan

  6805. "My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad." - Mookie Betts

  6806. "Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet." - Edward VIII

  6807. "I dwell in possibility." - Emily Dickinson

  6808. "I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  6809. "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will." - Pope Paul VI

  6810. "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." - Salvador Dali

  6811. "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

  6812. "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." - Edna Ferber

  6813. "As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind." - John Rampton

  6814. "There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success." - Phil Knight

  6815. "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." - David Hume

  6816. "I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine." - Matthew Macfadyen

  6817. "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

  6818. "I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself." - Alessia Cara

  6819. "What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  6820. "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." - John Cheever

  6821. "Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached!" - Gad Saad

  6822. "I love Instagram. I find it to be one of the truly positive social media things that exist." - Aidy Bryant

  6823. "In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety." - Aiden Wilson Tozer

  6824. "Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  6825. "When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree." - Bill Cosby

  6826. "I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners." - Chrissy Teigen

  6827. "I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid." - Leah Remini

  6828. "I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand." - Alicia Keys

  6829. "When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City." - Steve Burns

  6830. "God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius." - Anna Pavlova

  6831. "Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone." - Asif Kapadia

  6832. "Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle." - Mya

  6833. "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." - Vaclav Havel

  6834. "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - William Eardley IV

  6835. "I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere." - Philip Green

  6836. "His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do." - Maurice Ashley

  6837. "Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing." - Robert Kiyosaki

  6838. "Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship." - Eric Metaxas

  6839. "Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't." - Tony Gwynn

  6840. "I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me." - Noel Gallagher

  6841. "I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees." - Tammy Duckworth

  6842. "When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun." - Nicki Minaj

  6843. "I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child." - Chris Van Allsburg

  6844. "You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it." - Angelique Kerber

  6845. "We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride." - Sonya Walger

  6846. "In our family, and not just us but even with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we celebrate every festival - be it Christmas, Easter, Eid, Diwali or our birthdays." - Ananya Panday

  6847. "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  6848. "I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross." - Colby Covington

  6849. "The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other." - Del Close

  6850. "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day." - George Allen, Sr.

  6851. "Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was prepared to throw them on a fire to keep himself warm." - Mona Eltahawy

  6852. "It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures." - Simone Weil

  6853. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch

  6854. "When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different." - Maya Angelou

  6855. "It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder." - Shahid Kapoor

  6856. "At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  6857. "Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it)." - Rick Perlstein

  6858. "I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person." - Zoe Quinn

  6859. "A film like 'Dangal' is universal; though it narrates a story that happened in Punjab/Haryana, we like its inspirational story and its idea of celebrating the girl child." - Karthi

  6860. "What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing." - Rahul Dravid

  6861. "At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since." - Ethel Merman

  6862. "My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'" - Russell Wilson

  6863. "'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness." - John de Mol, Jr.

  6864. "It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder." - Ray Comfort

  6865. "President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame." - Glenn Hubbard

  6866. "God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace." - Trevor Huddleston

  6867. "I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures." - Alex Zanardi

  6868. "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways." - Maxine Hong Kingston

  6869. "I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme." - Ant Middleton

  6870. "I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house." - Sue Townsend

  6871. "No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer." - Jane Elliot

  6872. "Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago." - Ben Feldman

  6873. "My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood." - Doja Cat

  6874. "Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy." - DMX

  6875. "When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge." - John Rocha

  6876. "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." - Vaclav Havel

  6877. "No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex." - Susan B. Anthony

  6878. "Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world." - Mary Garden

  6879. "I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can." - Tichina Arnold

  6880. "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." - Steven Seagal

  6881. "Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him." - Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  6882. "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty

  6883. "I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people." - Viola Davis

  6884. "We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease." - Dorothea Dix

  6885. "The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose." - Charles Stanley

  6886. "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." - Steve Harvey

  6887. "In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not." - Freddie Freeman

  6888. "I think fitness and doing gym should be like brushing teeth everyday in the morning as it should come automatically without any excuse." - Sonu Sood

  6889. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - James M. Barrie

  6890. "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles

  6891. "My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis." - Kumail Nanjiani

  6892. "I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  6893. "One thing that success has taught me is censorship." - Tracey Emin

  6894. "He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor." - Robert Green Ingersoll

  6895. "I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden." - Bjorn Ulvaeus

  6896. "Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop." - Lucy Carless

  6897. "Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

  6898. "I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people." - Mindy Kaling

  6899. "To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor." - Ezra Taft Benson

  6900. "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed." - Nikos Kazantzakis

  6901. "As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom." - Mark Wahlberg

  6902. "Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world." - Yolanda Hadid

  6903. "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link." - Simone Weil

  6904. "I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society." - Anthony Fauci

  6905. "My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it's really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I'll have my tree up!" - Gena Lee Nolin

  6906. "Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer." - Anthony Hopkins

  6907. "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck

  6908. "I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart

  6909. "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls." - Henry David Thoreau

  6910. "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." - John Ruskin

  6911. "I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa." - Doug Jones

  6912. "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

  6913. "I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough." - Dwyane Wade

  6914. "Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune." - Jessie Buckley

  6915. "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

  6916. "My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase." - James Altucher

  6917. "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity." - Konrad Adenauer

  6918. "Honestly, the All In women's locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involved - Chelsea, Britt, Madison, Jordynne Grace, Brandi Rhodes, Tenille Dashwood, Penelope Ford, Mandy Leon - is we all bring something so different to the table for a common vision." - Tessa Blanchard

  6919. "Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket." - Kirstin Maldonado

  6920. "I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success." - Michael Landon

  6921. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." - Tommy Douglas

  6922. "The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives." - Steven Weber

  6923. "As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven." - Billy Graham

  6924. "People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning." - John Scalzi

  6925. "Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best." - Marilu Henner

  6926. "I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley." - Ashley Graham

  6927. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

  6928. "I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that." - Marie Helvin

  6929. "I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions." - Lata Mangeshkar

  6930. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  6931. "Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  6932. "I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." - Bob Marley

  6933. "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." - Ulysses S. Grant

  6934. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

  6935. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  6936. "I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights." - Steve Israel

  6937. "If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'" - Tom Cruise

  6938. "Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology." - Reza Aslan

  6939. "The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island." - Meriwether Lewis

  6940. "'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness." - John de Mol, Jr.

  6941. "I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey." - John Madden

  6942. "The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him." - Matthew Sweet

  6943. "I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her." - Martie Maguire

  6944. "Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears." - Susana Martinez

  6945. "I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." - Joyce Meyer

  6946. "I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid." - Nick Diaz

  6947. "Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts." - Joel Osteen

  6948. "I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother." - Anne Hathaway

  6949. "And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present." - John Guare

  6950. "Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun." - Sebastian Thrun

  6951. "What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine." - Oprah Winfrey

  6952. "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it." - Samuel Goldwyn

  6953. "For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional." - Justin Lin

  6954. "No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened." - Wilma Rudolph

  6955. "Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai

  6956. "Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'" - Sean Covey

  6957. "My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood." - Doja Cat

  6958. "Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read." - Wayne Swan

  6959. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes." - Ernie Banks

  6960. "I think to do anything out of one's comfort zone, there has to be some aspect of it that feels inspiring and challenging in a positive way." - James Newton Howard

  6961. "I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie." - Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  6962. "When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God." - Robert Mapplethorpe

  6963. "I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful." - Clayton Christensen

  6964. "I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it." - Jake Shears

  6965. "I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut." - Garth Brooks

  6966. "There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well." - Sudeep

  6967. "A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose." - Reinhard Bonnke

  6968. "Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me." - Ariel Sharon

  6969. "That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me." - Jerry Seinfeld

  6970. "Being a young actor, I remember missing out on summers, birthday parties, and school trips through high school because I was filming. There are so many things that you have to sacrifice and give up for it." - Dylan Everett

  6971. "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

  6972. "Thank God I'm an atheist." - Luis Bunuel

  6973. "The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection." - Kenneth Scott Latourette

  6974. "Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God." - Monica Johnson

  6975. "Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks." - Michel Onfray

  6976. "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom." - Sydney Madwed

  6977. "Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone." - Deepak Chopra

  6978. "I like green juices in the morning, made from things such as kale, and cucumber and peppers; then in the afternoon, when the blood sugar goes down, I'll make a carrot, apple, and ginger juice." - Trudie Styler

  6979. "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington

  6980. "There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls." - Lindsey Stirling

  6981. "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung." - Phillips Brooks

  6982. "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead." - William Law

  6983. "I remember it was Dr. Seuss' birthday, and I got to read to the little ones and that was just an awesome experience. I remember when I was a young knucklehead and having that access to an after-school program in my community. It's something that hits home to me and something I wanted to always be a part of." - Travis Kelce

  6984. "I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion." - Ricardo Montalban

  6985. "There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God." - Peter Steele

  6986. "I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold." - Dan Brown

  6987. "Every Thanksgiving, we visited our New York cousins and went shopping at Bergdorf's and Saks for long dresses to wear to the Homestead for New Year's Eve." - Tinsley Mortimer

  6988. "God forgive you, but I never can." - Elizabeth I

  6989. "Sunday morning, I wake up at, like, 6 or 6:30 to go to the gym. I drink a glass of water, and then, before I start my workout, I drink a cup of coffee." - Salt Bae

  6990. "I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it." - Aleksandar Hemon

  6991. "My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly." - Heart Evangelista

  6992. "Ideas shape the course of history." - John Maynard Keynes

  6993. "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it." - Franz Grillparzer

  6994. "And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over." - Delta Burke

  6995. "Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein." - John Lanchester

  6996. "Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either." - Anne Murray

  6997. "I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'" - Chris Farley

  6998. "My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure." - Jimmy O. Yang

  6999. "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life." - Moses

  7000. "For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in - whether it's through social-media platforms, whether it's through speeches, whether it's through interviews - that's always a positive." - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  7001. "I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'" - John Paul DeJoria

  7002. "I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important." - Jake Paul

  7003. "Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College." - Joe Paterno

  7004. "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed." - Herman Cain

  7005. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  7006. "It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures." - Simone Weil

  7007. "Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson

  7008. "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck

  7009. "I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'" - Karolyn Grimes

  7010. "I bought my mom a car for Christmas. I don't even own my own car." - Perez Hilton

  7011. "To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends." - Britney Spears

  7012. "My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day." - Kailash Kher

  7013. "You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song." - Brian Wilson

  7014. "You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here." - Ram Dass

  7015. "Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'" - Richard Corliss

  7016. "I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough." - Dwyane Wade

  7017. "'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it." - Malachi Kirby

  7018. "Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise." - Jami Gertz

  7019. "I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college." - Imelda May

  7020. "Toleration is the best religion." - Victor Hugo

  7021. "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit." - William Robertson Smith

  7022. "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery

  7023. "O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams." - Saint Augustine

  7024. "My mom raised me to be a strong person." - Little Simz

  7025. "My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way." - Christen Press

  7026. "A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world." - James Faulkner

  7027. "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff." - Sojourner Truth

  7028. "A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances." - Ezra Taft Benson

  7029. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  7030. "The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities." - Ezra Taft Benson

  7031. "If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies." - Paul Farmer

  7032. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  7033. "Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy." - Mike Fisher

  7034. "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs." - Tony Visconti

  7035. "I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas." - Logan Mankins

  7036. "For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road." - Bubba Wallace

  7037. "Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude." - Lou Holtz

  7038. "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." - Charles J. Givens

  7039. "Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness." - Erin Gruwell

  7040. "God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences." - Rodrigo Duterte

  7041. "I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either." - Alex Turner

  7042. "The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do." - David Joseph Schwartz

  7043. "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways." - Maxine Hong Kingston

  7044. "As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute." - John Hall

  7045. "Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I strongly believe in being a positive and creative force in the protection and enhancement of the local and global environment." - Paul E. Jacobs

  7046. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  7047. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

  7048. "Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place." - Lu Wei

  7049. "Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology." - Reza Aslan

  7050. "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." - Benjamin Franklin

  7051. "I wouldn't wish it on people but there is a positive side to a near-death experience. People used to ask me do you fancy doing this or that - and it was like I had a file of reasons in my head for not doing things. I would riffle through it until I found one. But I've dropped that." - Bob Mortimer

  7052. "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'" - Will Rogers

  7053. "I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards." - Suzy Bogguss

  7054. "There's only one thing I love more than race day: the morning after! The morning after the Marathon, New York catches running fever. The Hudson River bike path on Manhattan's west side was like a traffic jam of joggers on Monday morning. No doubt the great race fires up the endurance athlete in all of us - and it's beautiful." - Stephanie Ruhle

  7055. "I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself." - Virat Kohli

  7056. "Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well." - R. Madhavan

  7057. "I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do." - Gail Kelly

  7058. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - James M. Barrie

  7059. "I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events." - Caterina Murino

  7060. "I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from." - Alain de Botton

  7061. "Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  7062. "My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there." - Sebastian Roche

  7063. "There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are." - Caitlyn Jenner

  7064. "God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be." - Brennan Manning

  7065. "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  7066. "My mother died on my birthday." - Shannon Briggs

  7067. "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

  7068. "I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking." - Steve Albini

  7069. "We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning." - Henry Ward Beecher

  7070. "You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere." - D. H. Lawrence

  7071. "I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to." - Jane Elliot

  7072. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  7073. "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions." - Scott Ian

  7074. "I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling." - Yolanda Hadid

  7075. "Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

  7076. "The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer." - Molly Ivins

  7077. "'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear." - Tom Petty

  7078. "I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God." - Billy Graham

  7079. "I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think." - Rachel Zoe

  7080. "Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God." - Henri Nouwen

  7081. "Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion." - Penn Jillette

  7082. "I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different." - Johnny Weir

  7083. "Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family." - Samantha Isler

  7084. "If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines." - Gary Hamel

  7085. "Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." - Thomas S. Monson

  7086. "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." - Baruch Spinoza

  7087. "I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do." - Jonny Kim

  7088. "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

  7089. "When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'" - Valerie Harper

  7090. "I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way." - Drake Bell

  7091. "I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do." - Jonny Kim

  7092. "For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic." - Mary Kay Andrews

  7093. "The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion." - Hamza Yusuf

  7094. "My mum likes to remind me of the birthday treat I asked for when I was just 13... and that was for them to hire a stretch limo for my birthday when we travelled to L.A." - Alex Hirschi

  7095. "I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!" - Cara Delevingne

  7096. "We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good." - Robert Winston

  7097. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  7098. "I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies." - Cam

  7099. "I'm not really into religion." - Harry Dean Stanton

  7100. "Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive." - Rich Brian

  7101. "Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better." - Zach Johnson

  7102. "Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion." - John Burroughs

  7103. "Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift." - Aretha Franklin

  7104. "Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind." - Steven Crowder

  7105. "I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual." - Janet Jackson

  7106. "In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams." - Sergio Leone

  7107. "Whether it's a mom worrying about affording insulin for her children or a cancer patient fearing bankruptcy due the price of his life-saving medications, the number one issue Kansans talk to me about is the cost of health care and prescription drugs." - Sharice Davids

  7108. "I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas." - Paula Hawkins

  7109. "I'm obsessed with being a mom." - Kourtney Kardashian

  7110. "Couldn't start the morning without caffeine." - Ginnifer Goodwin

  7111. "Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut." - Mary Berry

  7112. "I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time." - Shawn Mendes

  7113. "How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones." - Catherine Tate

  7114. "I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving." - Wylie Dufresne

  7115. "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." - Mira Nair

  7116. "Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you're being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you're putting positive energy into the world, and you're appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it'll work out." - Gnash

  7117. "An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty." - Richard Branson

  7118. "As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success." - Tamara Taylor

  7119. "To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." - Victor Hugo

  7120. "My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I'd be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever." - Metro Boomin

  7121. "My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him." - Loretta Lynn

  7122. "With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie." - Charles Grodin

  7123. "Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  7124. "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." - Billie Jean King

  7125. "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms." - Ellen G. White

  7126. "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them." - Franz Kafka

  7127. "No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning." - D. L. Hughley

  7128. "I'm a person who watches TV all the time - all the time; I love TV. And I really think that the media heavily influences how we as a society behave towards each other. And one of the things that I find to be lacking on television are positive images of diversity." - Maysoon Zayid

  7129. "Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect." - Kourtney Kardashian

  7130. "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington

  7131. "God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?" - Alan Paton

  7132. "I expect that I will still wake up every morning and ponder the choice I have made to speak my mind about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. It is a pattern that I have grown accustomed to." - Jamal Khashoggi

  7133. "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts." - Tom Brady

  7134. "For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me." - Leslie Jordan

  7135. "My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was." - Alessandro Michele

  7136. "Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall." - Scott Turow

  7137. "We are here to make another world." - W. Edwards Deming

  7138. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  7139. "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both." - Shia LaBeouf

  7140. "I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers." - Tony Bradman

  7141. "My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist." - Mark Bradford

  7142. "Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again." - Thelma Schoonmaker

  7143. "Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  7144. "I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers." - Mother Angelica

  7145. "My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly." - Heart Evangelista

  7146. "I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers." - Charles Barkley

  7147. "Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli

  7148. "Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that." - William Weld

  7149. "Focus on being balanced - success is balance." - Laila Ali

  7150. "Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn't get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it." - Claudette Colvin

  7151. "I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine." - Matthew Macfadyen

  7152. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  7153. "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love." - Gabriel Byrne

  7154. "Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail." - Sheri L. Dew

  7155. "I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal." - Mohamed Al-Fayed

  7156. "Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child." - Amy Grant

  7157. "Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming." - Vaclav Klaus

  7158. "I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere." - Bo Sanchez

  7159. "To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship." - Steve Earle

  7160. "I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical." - Tracy Morgan

  7161. "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't." - Morrissey

  7162. "I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'" - Jacob Artist

  7163. "What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power." - Steve-O

  7164. "We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions." - Eric Liu

  7165. "Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty." - Slowthai

  7166. "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added." - Ronald Reagan

  7167. "On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections." - Eva Herzigova

  7168. "God forgive you, but I never can." - Elizabeth I

  7169. "When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian." - Matthew Pearl

  7170. "Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls." - Suresh Raina

  7171. "I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today." - Tom Ford

  7172. "I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I've ever done." - Grace VanderWaal

  7173. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  7174. "Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give." - Adam Neumann

  7175. "Laughter is God's blessing." - Joseph Prince

  7176. "There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures." - Arabella Weir

  7177. "I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful." - Lenny Kravitz

  7178. "I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything." - Johann Lamont

  7179. "If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?" - John Cleese

  7180. "In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening." - Boy George

  7181. "My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection." - Michael Jackson

  7182. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  7183. "Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude." - Michelle Obama

  7184. "I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way." - Antonio Banderas

  7185. "We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special." - Larry the Cable Guy

  7186. "We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world." - Jim DeMint

  7187. "I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality." - Matt Haig

  7188. "I think my mom put me in tap classes when I was three, which I never pursued. I don't know how to tap. Then we moved to Portugal when I was five, and, I think, she put me in ballet classes immediately. Then I was expelled for being too restless - I am too high energy - and was told I could go do rhythm gymnastics." - Daniela Ruah

  7189. "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning." - King Solomon

  7190. "I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours." - Kurt Vonnegut

  7191. "I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'" - Josh Peck

  7192. "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." - Meister Eckhart

  7193. "I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future." - John Cusack

  7194. "In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility." - Naveen Jain

  7195. "Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5." - Ken Griffey Jr.

  7196. "Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths." - Radhanath Swami

  7197. "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link." - Simone Weil

  7198. "I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings." - Ron Ben-Israel

  7199. "The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong." - Rick Perry

  7200. "Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making." - Michelle Phan

  7201. "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." - Muhammad Iqbal

  7202. "For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very." - Jon Hamm

  7203. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  7204. "I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me." - Mary J. Blige

  7205. "I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage." - Fiona Apple

  7206. "You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people." - Halsey

  7207. "If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's working for my good. Doesn't mean everything's going to be smooth, but that's all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel." - Shawn Michaels

  7208. "I believe in destiny, God's hand and hard work." - Katrina Kaif

  7209. "I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart

  7210. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  7211. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  7212. "I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy." - Jonathan Kozol

  7213. "I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day." - John Searles

  7214. "My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'" - Henrikh Mkhitaryan

  7215. "Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you." - Rutherford B. Hayes

  7216. "The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms." - Matteo Salvini

  7217. "The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust." - Denise Morrison

  7218. "Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen." - Mary J. Blige

  7219. "I surrounded myself with very positive people who only wanted the best for me. I loved high school as a whole. I consider myself really lucky." - Gigi Gorgeous

  7220. "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound." - Chelsea Clinton

  7221. "God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing." - Reinhard Bonnke

  7222. "Opening presents at midnight on Christmas Eve - midnight! As soon as it turns to Christmas Day, we're opening those gifts." - Frankie Grande

  7223. "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams." - Ben Carson

  7224. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

  7225. "Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson

  7226. "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

  7227. "From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance." - Jenny Zhang

  7228. "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people." - B. R. Ambedkar

  7229. "Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!" - Katherine Ryan

  7230. "Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care." - Miriam Defensor-Santiago

  7231. "Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day." - Ciara

  7232. "I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?" - Max Joseph

  7233. "Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream." - Rithvik Dhanjani

  7234. "I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone." - David Sedaris

  7235. "I do like my eggs in the morning, if I was trying to be good I'd have a piece of rye bread with a bit of avocado and scrambled egg whites." - Michelle Keegan

  7236. "I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays." - Laila Rouass

  7237. "Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success." - David Goggins

  7238. "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it." - Glenn Beck

  7239. "At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life." - John Vane

  7240. "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

  7241. "Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5." - Ken Griffey Jr.

  7242. "My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs." - Nick Diaz

  7243. "My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life." - Sarah Paulson

  7244. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  7245. "As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  7246. "My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side." - Bode Miller

  7247. "A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures." - James E. Faust

  7248. "Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain." - Robert A. Cook

  7249. "My 21st birthday was probably the worst day of my life." - Troy Aikman

  7250. "They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes." - Imelda Marcos

  7251. "We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures." - Tom Hodgkinson

  7252. "Every morning when I woke up, I would pray, 'I have to throw today, please let there be no pain.' Those were very gloomy days. Meanwhile, the atmosphere around me had become, 'Is he faking an injury?' 'Is it a mental problem?' Those words made it extremely difficult for me to stop and rest, and it really took a toll on me emotionally." - Yu Darvish

  7253. "I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September." - Lisa Snowdon

  7254. "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith." - Mahatma Gandhi

  7255. "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all." - Alan Watts

  7256. "Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard." - Keanu Reeves

  7257. "We have had the exact same meal for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I can ever remember, and it's so simple. It's just turkey and mashed potatoes and green beans and stuffing. Just the basics, but it's so good." - Brandi Cyrus

  7258. "There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success." - Amy Morin

  7259. "My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military." - Camren Bicondova

  7260. "Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  7261. "A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances." - Ezra Taft Benson

  7262. "I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it." - Cameron Dallas

  7263. "One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself." - James E. Casey

  7264. "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

  7265. "Prayer is man's greatest power!" - W. Clement Stone

  7266. "There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'" - Chuck Schumer

  7267. "I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day." - Dolph Ziggler

  7268. "I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do." - Busy Philipps

  7269. "Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology." - Donald Johanson

  7270. "So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact." - Trey Parker

  7271. "My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom." - Maria Brink

  7272. "My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life." - Mandy Patinkin

  7273. "I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life." - David Furnish

  7274. "I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on." - Claudette Colvin

  7275. "Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper." - John Updike

  7276. "I think we're pretty spiritual people, the band in general. We're not a bunch of hippies or anything like that, but we like to work together and work with people. We believe that positive energy is pretty necessary in life, although it's not always easy to maintain." - John Gourley

  7277. "There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success." - Heather Bresch

  7278. "I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.'" - Lily James

  7279. "For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need." - Finn Wolfhard

  7280. "Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before." - Wesley Sneijder

  7281. "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." - Charles J. Givens

  7282. "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us." - Allyson Felix

  7283. "My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always." - Lyor Cohen

  7284. "I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received." - Ryan Reynolds

  7285. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  7286. "I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey." - Ryan Guzman

  7287. "I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!" - Becky G

  7288. "In high school, I was crazy in love, and I would make handmade construction paper valentines every month for our monthly anniversaries. Then I'd go early in the morning and tape one to her car. It sounds sweet, but let's be honest: it was a little weird. I was probably crossing some lines." - Paul Rust

  7289. "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." - Arthur Helps

  7290. "My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am." - Jay DeMarcus

  7291. "We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility." - Jim Elliot

  7292. "Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions." - Steve Hackett

  7293. "The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives." - Anita Sarkeesian

  7294. "I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'" - Kurtis Blow

  7295. "My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression." - Jessica Biel

  7296. "I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise." - Adrian McKinty

  7297. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine

  7298. "If you have talent, then success will come to you." - Kartik Aaryan

  7299. "Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible." - T. D. Jakes

  7300. "My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money." - Megan Fox

  7301. "At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child." - Queen Elizabeth II

  7302. "If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation." - Daniela Pestova

  7303. "My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot." - Fred Armisen

  7304. "A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house." - Caroline Leavitt

  7305. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  7306. "God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love." - Martin Farquhar Tupper

  7307. "The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty." - Sasha Velour

  7308. "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion." - William Blake

  7309. "Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God." - Pope Francis

  7310. "When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see." - Michael Jackson

  7311. "I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me." - Colin Morgan

  7312. "Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept." - J. C. Ryle

  7313. "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu

  7314. "Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials." - Dan Savage

  7315. "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  7316. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

  7317. "What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl." - Roma Downey

  7318. "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw

  7319. "It's not exactly calm at Christmas. It's a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert - lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce!" - Sophia Di Martino

  7320. "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." - John Foster Dulles

  7321. "Wonder is the basis of worship." - Thomas Carlyle

  7322. "Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  7323. "Of course God will forgive me; that's His job." - Heinrich Heine

  7324. "The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity." - Benjamin Wittes

  7325. "When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them." - Michael Morpurgo

  7326. "Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'" - Donna McKechnie

  7327. "We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last." - Charles Studd

  7328. "The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values." - Ben Shapiro

  7329. "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice." - Jules Renard

  7330. "I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face." - Stephen Hopkins

  7331. "Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

  7332. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  7333. "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

  7334. "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family." - Madonna Ciccone

  7335. "Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall." - Scott Turow

  7336. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges

  7337. "I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life." - Ashlee Simpson

  7338. "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." - Dick Gregory

  7339. "Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards." - Brad Thor

  7340. "In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son." - Charo

  7341. "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness." - Carrie Fisher

  7342. "My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning." - Mary Quant

  7343. "Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about." - Sean Hayes

  7344. "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." - William Pollard

  7345. "Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone's. Except in the shops at Christmas." - Sara Pascoe

  7346. "Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  7347. "I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'" - Luke Bryan

  7348. "All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way." - Mary Berry

  7349. "My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family." - Julie Roberts

  7350. "My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher." - Joshua Henry

  7351. "If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life." - Ratan Tata

  7352. "People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart." - Sam Taylor-Johnson

  7353. "We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases." - Greta Thunburg

  7354. "I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward." - Prince Royce

  7355. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  7356. "The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting." - Hikaru Nakamura

  7357. "One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was." - Ruth Reichl

  7358. "It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things." - Rickie Fowler

  7359. "Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time." - Lex Luger

  7360. "Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect." - Ziggy Marley

  7361. "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me." - Ray Bradbury

  7362. "Religion is all bunk." - Thomas A. Edison

  7363. "I didn't wake up one morning and become some important person." - Linda Sarsour

  7364. "My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others." - Matthew Perry

  7365. "I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles." - Corazon Aquino

  7366. "Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career." - Patty Smyth

  7367. "With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad." - Vince Clarke

  7368. "When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas." - Dee Rees

  7369. "Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning." - Virat Kohli

  7370. "Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof." - Joel Osteen

  7371. "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - Satchel Paige

  7372. "I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing." - Muddy Waters

  7373. "How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination." - Nellie Bly

  7374. "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard

  7375. "One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful." - Thomas Arnold

  7376. "I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me." - George Michael

  7377. "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." - Les Brown

  7378. "I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more." - Mariska Hargitay

  7379. "I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed." - Big Freedia

  7380. "My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!" - Anne Sullivan

  7381. "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness." - William Blake

  7382. "People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive." - Vivek Oberoi

  7383. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  7384. "God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight." - Reggie White

  7385. "In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas." - J. R. Moehringer

  7386. "My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life." - Fleur East

  7387. "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible." - Isaiah Berlin

  7388. "I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom." - Josh Homme

  7389. "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong

  7390. "I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it." - Michael J. Fox

  7391. "I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder." - Stacey Abrams

  7392. "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang

  7393. "Being surrounded with such positive people always helps." - Donovan Bailey

  7394. "I'd like to give out positive vibes and be surrounded by them as well." - Shriya Saran

  7395. "I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted." - Greg Lake

  7396. "As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key." - Kym Whitley

  7397. "I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!" - Twinkle Khanna

  7398. "I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do." - Nina Agdal

  7399. "My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going." - Big Sean

  7400. "Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction." - Daniel Levitin

  7401. "The biggest thing that I've noticed since the move to Barcelona was announced is just how positive the comments have been. It was not just in the mainstream media, but also on social media." - Toni Duggan

  7402. "I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better." - Jean Nidetch

  7403. "I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts." - Suzi Quatro

  7404. "For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel." - Martin Luther

  7405. "The exchange rate of the Rand against the dollar, pound or euro makes South Africa an attractive location. The positive side of this is it gives our artists and technicians an opportunity to work." - John Kani

  7406. "I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham." - Harold Pinter

  7407. "My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this." - Jeff Foxworthy

  7408. "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday." - Lawrence Tierney

  7409. "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  7410. "My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'" - Hilary Duff

  7411. "I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I last spoke with him on Christmas Day 2002, when I called him to talk about an argument I'd had with my cousin; he died two months later, on February 27, 2003." - Tom Junod

  7412. "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz

  7413. "I used to work at a hotel. I was the order-taker for room service. My mom worked at the hotel as an accountant." - Sasha Banks

  7414. "It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things." - Tom DeLonge

  7415. "Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings." - Martin Seligman

  7416. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  7417. "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." - Amelia Barr

  7418. "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  7419. "Whenever I would go to Hrithik's vanity van to chat or rehearse lines, I'd see him working out or watching inspirational videos. One thing that I've learnt from him is that, as an actor, you have to worship your body." - Mrunal Thakur

  7420. "I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down." - Mo Rocca

  7421. "Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do." - Adam Green

  7422. "I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers." - Mother Angelica

  7423. "My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes." - Jason Momoa

  7424. "If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place." - Ryan Holmes

  7425. "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." - Steven Seagal

  7426. "Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before." - Queen Latifah

  7427. "Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too." - Jeb Bush

  7428. "The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation." - Karen Robards

  7429. "My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company." - Christie Hefner

  7430. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

  7431. "We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence." - John Piper

  7432. "I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution." - Greg Graffin

  7433. "My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud." - Astro

  7434. "Kerala is called 'God's own country.' We need to make sure it is really so, for which we should ensure the entire state, including rivers and backwaters, are clean." - Pinarayi Vijayan

  7435. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  7436. "I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God." - Christina Aguilera

  7437. "I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters." - Darci Lynne Farmer

  7438. "Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career." - Jack Youngblood

  7439. "I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Susan B. Anthony

  7440. "To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way." - David Schwimmer

  7441. "I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God." - Billy Graham

  7442. "I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success." - Romelu Lukaku

  7443. "My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices." - Bill Hader

  7444. "We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family." - Haylie Duff

  7445. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  7446. "I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure." - Gordon Ramsay

  7447. "A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try." - Leonard Mlodinow

  7448. "Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence." - Jules Feiffer

  7449. "Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge." - Kevin Spacey

  7450. "If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light." - Brian O'Driscoll

  7451. "We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional." - Chris Pine

  7452. "My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better." - DMX

  7453. "I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch." - Lily Collins

  7454. "I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning." - Mary Kay Andrews

  7455. "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." - Emile Zola

  7456. "I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder." - Stacey Abrams

  7457. "Laughter is God's blessing." - Joseph Prince

  7458. "I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God." - Billy Graham

  7459. "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire

  7460. "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." - Robert Orben

  7461. "The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition." - David Novak

  7462. "Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday." - Gladys Taber

  7463. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine

  7464. "I love those who yearn for the impossible." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  7465. "It's the biggest thing in the world in many ways, football. People don't want to talk about politics. They don't want to talk about religion. They want to talk about football - wherever you go." - Glenn Hoddle

  7466. "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain." - Dakota Fanning

  7467. "I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church." - Shaun Cassidy

  7468. "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher

  7469. "The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad." - Eric Johnson

  7470. "I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways - the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with." - David Hogg

  7471. "It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year." - Richard E. Grant

  7472. "I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning." - Hugh Grant

  7473. "Friends are God's apology for relations." - Hugh Kingsmill

  7474. "The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy." - Domenico Dolce

  7475. "My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning." - Ryan Lochte

  7476. "I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start." - Adam Rippon

  7477. "I try to get in two runs during the week, after the 'Today' show, probably around 1 or 2 o'clock, Tuesday, Thursday. Then Saturday or Sunday, I do my longer runs and try to do it in the morning." - Al Roker

  7478. "The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa

  7479. "God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!" - Joyce Meyer

  7480. "To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you're a gosh dang philosopher." - Kat Timpf

  7481. "When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one." - Dean Rusk

  7482. "I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history." - Canelo Alvarez

  7483. "However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool." - Joan Collins

  7484. "I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events." - Caterina Murino

  7485. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  7486. "The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered." - John Elway

  7487. "Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you." - Les Brown

  7488. "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation." - Edmund Burke

  7489. "Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted." - Nadine Labaki

  7490. "In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude." - Thomas Erskine

  7491. "All men's gains are the fruit of venturing." - Herodotus

  7492. "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday." - John Clayton

  7493. "As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel." - Claire Tomalin

  7494. "The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?" - Dennis C. Blair

  7495. "Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference." - Robbie Robertson

  7496. "I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children." - Diane von Furstenberg

  7497. "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church." - Tom Brokaw

  7498. "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  7499. "I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas." - Gary Barlow

  7500. "At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you." - Ben Okri

  7501. "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs." - Diane Abbott

  7502. "The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values." - Douglas Alexander

  7503. "When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with." - Goldie Hawn

  7504. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  7505. "Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas." - Dennis Franz

  7506. "Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." - Eugene O'Neill

  7507. "I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  7508. "Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation." - Pierre Nanterme

  7509. "Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget." - Taraji P. Henson

  7510. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  7511. "Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'" - John Madden

  7512. "There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet." - Leo Varadkar

  7513. "However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool." - Joan Collins

  7514. "You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe." - Joyce Meyer

  7515. "Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone." - Melissa Etheridge

  7516. "'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear." - Tom Petty

  7517. "My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences." - Debi Mazar

  7518. "My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time." - Curtis Jackson

  7519. "I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day." - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

  7520. "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." - Isoroku Yamamoto

  7521. "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

  7522. "I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly." - Sonam Kapoor

  7523. "I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that." - Don Rickles

  7524. "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu

  7525. "The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim." - Rudolf Steiner

  7526. "Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe." - Marc Guggenheim

  7527. "I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion." - Gene Robinson

  7528. "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - Brian Tracy

  7529. "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old." - Mary Schmich

  7530. "There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world." - Peter James

  7531. "As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do." - Anthony Joshua

  7532. "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are." - Kirstie Alley

  7533. "No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas." - Malaika Arora Khan

  7534. "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind." - Marlee Matlin

  7535. "People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves." - Richard M. DeVos

  7536. "Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother." - Annette Funicello

  7537. "I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays." - Laila Rouass

  7538. "The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion." - Julian Baggini

  7539. "I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning." - Derek Jeter

  7540. "My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence." - Chris Borland

  7541. "Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself." - Josh Rosen

  7542. "Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle." - Eliezer Yudkowsky

  7543. "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  7544. "I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values." - Al Sharpton

  7545. "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Tecumseh

  7546. "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  7547. "Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet." - John Updike

  7548. "I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive." - Sonia Sotomayor

  7549. "Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!" - Said Nursi

  7550. "I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe." - Dick Dale

  7551. "For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God." - Lactantius

  7552. "I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations." - Q-Tip

  7553. "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints." - Bobby McFerrin

  7554. "Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it." - Florence King

  7555. "I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy." - Javier Bardem

  7556. "I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong." - Al Franken

  7557. "As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker." - Annie Dillard

  7558. "As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom." - Jennifer Coolidge

  7559. "That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!" - Michael Strahan

  7560. "Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it." - Natalie Portman

  7561. "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit." - Avicenna

  7562. "Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right." - Sabrina Carpenter

  7563. "I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up." - Demi Lovato

  7564. "What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?" - Louisa May Alcott

  7565. "I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed." - Jonathan Krisel

  7566. "My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982." - Nick Yarris

  7567. "The one thing that was nice about being an only child is that my friends' parents would always ask me whether I would want any other brothers and sisters? My mom wasn't able to have any more children, and they didn't know that, but I would always say that I can have friends over, and whenever I get sick of them, I can just send them home." - Alexa Bliss

  7568. "I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday." - Daniel Handler

  7569. "I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief." - Nick Cave

  7570. "There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself." - Joseph Parker

  7571. "When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist." - Marina Abramovic

  7572. "I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man." - George Michael

  7573. "There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them." - Michael Moore

  7574. "Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them." - John Ortberg

  7575. "Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round." - Umberto Eco

  7576. "There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it." - Anita Roddick

  7577. "My Mom and my Pops liked Tupac a lot." - NLE Choppa

  7578. "I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here." - Pope Francis

  7579. "I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success." - Robbie Williams

  7580. "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves." - Leon Uris

  7581. "Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one." - Robert Baden-Powell

  7582. "God mode is something that I've always tried to unlock within myself." - Israel Adesanya

  7583. "When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'" - Oswald Chambers

  7584. "I always try and be as positive as I can and give people the benefit of the doubt because, in my own experience - seeing myself fall so hard so many times in my life and do so many things where I lost my way so many times - and then people didn't give up on me, like my husband and my family." - Beth Hart

  7585. "My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company." - Christie Hefner

  7586. "My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored." - Sophie Dahl

  7587. "I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it." - Sonam Kapoor

  7588. "I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive." - S. Sreesanth

  7589. "My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day." - David Ayer

  7590. "Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day." - Daniel Goleman

  7591. "GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative." - Caroline Lucas

  7592. "God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful." - Henri Nouwen

  7593. "Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'" - Andy Biersack

  7594. "Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should." - Howard Gardner

  7595. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

  7596. "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature." - Neil Young

  7597. "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan

  7598. "Since the day I got married, I never got to plan my birthday." - Barun Sobti

  7599. "I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it." - Gilbert O'Sullivan

  7600. "Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober." - Jamie Lee Curtis

  7601. "Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide." - Ayushmann Khurrana

  7602. "When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was." - Jason Blum

  7603. "Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections." - Eric Kripke

  7604. "The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing." - Gloria Gaither

  7605. "I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun." - Cat Cora

  7606. "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." - Zig Ziglar

  7607. "They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats." - Chuck Feeney

  7608. "Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that." - William Weld

  7609. "In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment." - Ron Ben-Israel

  7610. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  7611. "Life is all about being positive and celebrating what you have in the moment." - Vivek Oberoi

  7612. "I always said God was against art and I still believe it." - Edward Elgar

  7613. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." - Joel Osteen

  7614. "The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  7615. "I understand Christmas, and I understand Easter. But Halloween is one of those things where, if you don't grow with it? The French, they tried Halloween for a few years, and I think they're dropping it." - Jacques Torres

  7616. "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." - Aristotle

  7617. "When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic." - Wesley Clark

  7618. "I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it." - Jon Gries

  7619. "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - Richard Dawkins

  7620. "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young

  7621. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck

  7622. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  7623. "Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have." - Rod Lurie

  7624. "The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday." - Tammy Blanchard

  7625. "The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!" - Sherry Yard

  7626. "I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that." - El DeBarge

  7627. "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." - Joe DiMaggio

  7628. "I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy." - Javier Bardem

  7629. "Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away." - Chuck Palahniuk

  7630. "Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week." - Harley Pasternak

  7631. "First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life." - Oksana Baiul

  7632. "I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure." - Sarah Drew

  7633. "I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours." - Isabel Allende

  7634. "In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion." - Kofi Annan

  7635. "Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities." - James Lankford

  7636. "You won't see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack." - Lauren Southern

  7637. "Morning or night, I love putting mint or spearmint oil on my temples and the back of my neck. There's this aromatherapy quality of both easing tension and waking you up." - Lily Collins

  7638. "Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting." - Zig Ziglar

  7639. "No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what." - Eddie Vedder

  7640. "My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going." - Big Sean

  7641. "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell

  7642. "Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning." - Jo Brand

  7643. "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th." - Sarah Ferguson

  7644. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  7645. "I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence." - Jessica White

  7646. "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." - Bobby Moynihan

  7647. "You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude." - Greg Gianforte

  7648. "To generate positive creative friction, you need people who'll tell you 'No.'" - Chris Harris

  7649. "Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge." - Lewis Howes

  7650. "It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." - Jonas Salk

  7651. "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." - George Harrison

  7652. "Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities." - Inga Muscio

  7653. "I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid." - Mike Shinoda

  7654. "There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin." - Mary Tyler Moore

  7655. "Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction." - George Lois

  7656. "I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself." - Virat Kohli

  7657. "You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body." - Shawn Achor

  7658. "Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'" - Alan Colmes

  7659. "The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  7660. "I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise." - Adrian McKinty

  7661. "We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity." - Logan Browning

  7662. "You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side." - Martin Seligman

  7663. "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." - Colin Powell

  7664. "I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out." - Edward Burtynsky

  7665. "Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy." - Lu Wei

  7666. "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." - Ambrose Bierce

  7667. "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State." - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  7668. "Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come." - Regina Brett

  7669. "You have to think for your team-mates and give them positive response. Whatever happens as a captain you have to take the responsibility. Backing my team-mates and supporting them was the biggest learning." - Ajinkya Rahane

  7670. "When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces." - James Franco

  7671. "The night before games, I try to get some shots up. Early on the game day, I come early in the morning to try to get some shots up. I just try to do the same things: go through the scouting, watch some clips before the game, just try to get my body ready." - Giannis Antetokounmpo

  7672. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  7673. "Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections." - Eric Kripke

  7674. "I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched 'I Love Lucy' and 'Benny Hill.' I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians' tapes." - Ron Funches

  7675. "Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects." - Pope Francis

  7676. "I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship." - Ron White

  7677. "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce

  7678. "There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well." - Sudeep

  7679. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone

  7680. "There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back." - Said Sayrafiezadeh

  7681. "My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't." - LP

  7682. "My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life." - Shraddha Kapoor

  7683. "I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world." - Ryan Eggold

  7684. "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." - Andy Rooney

  7685. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck

  7686. "I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both." - J. Cole

  7687. "The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind." - Bobby Davro

  7688. "Christmas makes everything twice as sad." - Douglas Coupland

  7689. "You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better." - Slim Jimmy

  7690. "It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'" - Bernie Mac

  7691. "I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche." - Edward Zwick

  7692. "I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it." - Johnny Iuzzini

  7693. "I never believed in birthday parties." - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  7694. "The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families." - Guy Fieri

  7695. "I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence." - Angela Bowie

  7696. "Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define." - Ani DiFranco

  7697. "My mom was a single parent." - G-Eazy

  7698. "I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort." - Jewel

  7699. "How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?" - Simon Mainwaring

  7700. "My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic." - Ato Essandoh

  7701. "There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that." - Morgan Wallen

  7702. "I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz." - Jason Mraz

  7703. "Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket." - Kirstin Maldonado

  7704. "Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed." - Billy Graham

  7705. "I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on." - Brian Eno

  7706. "I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important." - Ana Navarro

  7707. "My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag." - Joe Frazier

  7708. "I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters." - Darci Lynne Farmer

  7709. "God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends." - Addison Mizner

  7710. "That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me." - Jerry Seinfeld

  7711. "Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  7712. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  7713. "My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing." - Sarah Shahi

  7714. "My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play." - Tori Amos

  7715. "Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order." - Ellen G. White

  7716. "Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  7717. "Everything I am is because of my mom." - Sarah Michelle Gellar

  7718. "Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught." - Eric Ries

  7719. "Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  7720. "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way." - Karl Barth

  7721. "The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words." - Johnny Iuzzini

  7722. "I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there." - Christina Aguilera

  7723. "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not." - James Russell Lowell

  7724. "I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy." - Thandie Newton

  7725. "My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust." - Ron Reagan

  7726. "Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories." - John Boyne

  7727. "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." - Jim Elliot

  7728. "My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru." - Sid Sriram

  7729. "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

  7730. "I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup." - Shilpa Shetty

  7731. "It's a great time to do a show, at Christmas time. People are by and large in a Christmas frame of mind." - Anne Murray

  7732. "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me." - Diego Maradona

  7733. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  7734. "Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war." - Nigel Hamilton

  7735. "My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised." - Robin Wright

  7736. "I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable." - Tony Bennett

  7737. "Kerala is called 'God's own country.' We need to make sure it is really so, for which we should ensure the entire state, including rivers and backwaters, are clean." - Pinarayi Vijayan

  7738. "My dad's father would take me to WWE shows when I was younger, and my other grandfather, my mom's dad, would watch wrestling with me at the house. They just really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, they both passed away before I signed with WWE." - Kevin Owens

  7739. "First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." - Ovid

  7740. "Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication." - Dinesh Paliwal

  7741. "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation." - Robert Teeter

  7742. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  7743. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  7744. "We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God." - Joshua Bell

  7745. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou

  7746. "The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad." - Eric Johnson

  7747. "Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do." - John Eldredge

  7748. "We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity." - Ilhan Omar

  7749. "I've been dealing with racism since I was a little kid! My dad's super black, from Puerto Rico. Then my mom's super white - she's Puerto Rican too, but she grew up in Milwaukee. As a Latino in the U.S. I've seen how we are treated differently based on the color of our skin." - Anuel AA

  7750. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  7751. "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it." - Tricia Helfer

  7752. "I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated." - Twyla Tharp

  7753. "People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base." - Lil Peep

  7754. "I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths." - Gina Rodriguez

  7755. "Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." - Booth Tarkington

  7756. "We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence." - John Piper

  7757. "None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow." - Terri Irwin

  7758. "Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him." - Anne Graham Lotz

  7759. "Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human." - Alain de Botton

  7760. "Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service." - Ed Schultz

  7761. "The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center." - Ted Olson

  7762. "I couldn't live without tea. I have two cups in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon and one in the evening - Assam with milk and sugar. It has to be leaf tea - no bags - and drunk from a china cup." - Gilbert O'Sullivan

  7763. "That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin." - Aasif Mandvi

  7764. "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God." - Lionel Blue

  7765. "My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that." - Gigi Hadid

  7766. "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." - Mary Kay Ash

  7767. "It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job." - Chris Kyle

  7768. "I left school on my 15th birthday." - David Bailey

  7769. "I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs." - Sarah Brightman

  7770. "Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing." - Chris Gardner

  7771. "I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday." - Stanley Druckenmiller

  7772. "Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion." - Ellen G. White

  7773. "My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life." - Fleur East

  7774. "I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me." - Lil Wayne

  7775. "No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin

  7776. "Success doesn't motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey." - Becky Sauerbrunn

  7777. "I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own." - Ne-Yo

  7778. "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." - Muhammad Iqbal

  7779. "Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity." - Charles Spurgeon

  7780. "My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up." - Maye Musk

  7781. "Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it." - Zendaya

  7782. "Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'" - Ming-Na Wen

  7783. "God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another." - Mike Tyson

  7784. "Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact." - Jens Martin Skibsted

  7785. "My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings." - Andy Kindler

  7786. "My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids." - Olga Kurylenko

  7787. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." - Konrad Lorenz

  7788. "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth

  7789. "And when I breathed, my breath was lightning." - Black Elk

  7790. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire

  7791. "I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do." - Jonny Kim

  7792. "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." - Sophocles

  7793. "My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes." - DMX

  7794. "I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option." - Giannis Antetokounmpo

  7795. "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy." - Tina Fey

  7796. "I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe." - Sarah Wayne Callies

  7797. "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us." - Allyson Felix

  7798. "The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'" - Adriana Trigiani

  7799. "Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease." - Jerry Saltz

  7800. "My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people." - Brendon Burchard

  7801. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." - Groucho Marx

  7802. "We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God." - Joshua Bell

  7803. "She's very loving. That's my family. That's Michelle Lambert. She is my mom." - Jimmy Butler

  7804. "God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own." - Johannes Tauler

  7805. "Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you." - Rutherford B. Hayes

  7806. "Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success." - Zig Ziglar

  7807. "The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  7808. "I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives." - Nadia Comaneci

  7809. "In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good." - Jane Yolen

  7810. "We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions." - William McDonough

  7811. "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." - Jesus Christ

  7812. "Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world." - Camryn Manheim

  7813. "Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy." - DMX

  7814. "Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect." - Abbas Kiarostami

  7815. "God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met." - Farrah Fawcett

  7816. "My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student." - RM

  7817. "I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety." - Linda Lael Miller

  7818. "My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis." - Kumail Nanjiani

  7819. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  7820. "Chanel has always been this big thing for me - there are baby pictures of me wearing my mom's Chanel pumps." - Lily-Rose Depp

  7821. "I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan." - Darius Rucker

  7822. "It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone." - Mary Oliver

  7823. "If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost." - Paul Washer

  7824. "I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do." - Mary Pope Osborne

  7825. "Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching." - Rory McIlroy

  7826. "I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back." - David Hasselhoff

  7827. "Seeing lights being put up along the street and these colored lanterns called parols being put up at people's houses makes Christmas in Philippines magical." - Catriona Gray

  7828. "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone." - Abu Bakar Bashir

  7829. "My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort." - Mary H.K. Choi

  7830. "Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher

  7831. "I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom." - Carol Leifer

  7832. "A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have." - Dwight L. Moody

  7833. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton

  7834. "When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest." - Bill Moyers

  7835. "Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him." - Mike McCready

  7836. "Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing." - Warren Bennis

  7837. "In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew." - Ruth Park

  7838. "You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it." - Julia Fox

  7839. "Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone." - Ramakrishna

  7840. "I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way." - Antonio Banderas

  7841. "Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties." - Dalai Lama

  7842. "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone." - Abu Bakar Bashir

  7843. "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that." - Diane Kruger

  7844. "Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  7845. "There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time." - Yngwie Malmsteen

  7846. "Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong." - Russell Baker

  7847. "My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me." - Nate Robinson

  7848. "I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale." - Robert H. Schuller

  7849. "For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head." - Brittany Snow

  7850. "Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune." - Jessie Buckley

  7851. "Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul." - Johannes Tauler

  7852. "The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book." - James Rollins

  7853. "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male." - Julia Child

  7854. "I'm Ifa. I grew up practicing Ifa, my mom is Ifa, my whole family is Ifa." - 21 Savage

  7855. "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

  7856. "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action." - Robert Shea

  7857. "Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco." - Chip Conley

  7858. "I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad." - Jada Pinkett Smith

  7859. "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." - Salvador Dali

  7860. "One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." - Andy Rooney

  7861. "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." - Thomas Huxley

  7862. "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away." - Anna Pavlova

  7863. "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

  7864. "I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man." - Billy Graham

  7865. "The road to success is always under construction." - Arnold Palmer

  7866. "Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." - Garth Brooks

  7867. "Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it." - John Waters

  7868. "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent." - Barbara Ehrenreich

  7869. "Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!" - Tyra Banks

  7870. "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night." - Marie Corelli

  7871. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank

  7872. "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay." - William Cowper

  7873. "I only answer to two people, myself and God." - Cher

  7874. "There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers." - John Oliver

  7875. "I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive." - Jean Alesi

  7876. "I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!" - Jenny Agutter

  7877. "I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning." - Mary Kay Andrews

  7878. "In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment." - Viktor E. Frankl

  7879. "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." - Henry David Thoreau

  7880. "I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms." - Billy Graham

  7881. "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  7882. "I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom." - Priyanka Chopra

  7883. "We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play." - Brian Sutton-Smith

  7884. "If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions." - Lawrence Wright

  7885. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  7886. "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." - John Ruskin

  7887. "Men are what their mothers made them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  7888. "I've been completely surprised at the outpouring of just incredible amounts of positive feedback and love from people all day long." - Chris March

  7889. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  7890. "I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety." - James Lasdun

  7891. "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears." - Helen Keller

  7892. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  7893. "Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever." - Trey Parker

  7894. "Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature." - John Burroughs

  7895. "Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense." - Dionne Warwick

  7896. "I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide." - Aleister Black

  7897. "I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition." - Daniela Ruah

  7898. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge

  7899. "I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star." - John Wayne

  7900. "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking

  7901. "Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers." - Marillyn Hewson

  7902. "Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion." - Michael Burry

  7903. "My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it." - Alex Lifeson

  7904. "The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born." - Elayne Boosler

  7905. "Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat." - Marcus Samuelsson

  7906. "When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description." - Amy Chua

  7907. "I'm not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I'm a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to." - Emily Wickersham

  7908. "We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." - Lauren Hutton

  7909. "If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life." - Hudson Taylor

  7910. "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." - Emo Philips

  7911. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  7912. "The divisiveness that threatens the fabric of our nation - whether due to race, religion, political ideology, gender, sexual orientation, or other - must end." - Tulsi Gabbard

  7913. "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." - Aristotle

  7914. "We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special." - Larry the Cable Guy

  7915. "My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them." - Milo Ventimiglia

  7916. "If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up." - Lesley Manville

  7917. "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." - Helen Keller

  7918. "At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'" - Mary Steenburgen

  7919. "And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy." - Feist

  7920. "A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements." - Orison Swett Marden

  7921. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  7922. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  7923. "In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety." - Aiden Wilson Tozer

  7924. "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." - John Lennon

  7925. "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval." - Thomas S. Monson

  7926. "I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions." - Jenna Bush

  7927. "I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!" - Jonathan Banks

  7928. "So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks." - Gail Porter

  7929. "It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder." - Ray Comfort

  7930. "Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  7931. "The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed." - Deval Patrick

  7932. "Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation." - Richard Holloway

  7933. "There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself." - Drew Barrymore

  7934. "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

  7935. "I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day." - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

  7936. "My mom is my biggest inspiration by far. She inspires me on a daily basis. I remember hearing her sing around the house, and I was like, 'Mom, you belong on TV. You're a superstar.'" - Khalid

  7937. "You never create a scene around the Easter egg. The Easter egg is always just, 'Oh, there's an opportunity for something that the fans will enjoy if they can spot it.'" - Kari Skogland

  7938. "When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding." - Michael Korda

  7939. "I'm living by the beach so it's nice to wake up in the morning and see the beach." - Rhian Brewster

  7940. "Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely." - Frank McCourt

  7941. "We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country." - Nicky Morgan

  7942. "I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  7943. "Religion cannot be the agenda of any government." - Mamata Banerjee

  7944. "God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart." - Saint Bernard

  7945. "I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement." - Carrie Coon

  7946. "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - William Eardley IV

  7947. "We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well." - Momo Hirai

  7948. "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me." - Arthur Wellesley

  7949. "I have this PTSD from a birthday party where no one showed up." - Emily Hampshire

  7950. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  7951. "The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves." - Stephen J. Dubner

  7952. "I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day." - Monica Seles

  7953. "This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me." - Rodney Dangerfield

  7954. "I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross." - Colby Covington

  7955. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  7956. "I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion." - Adam Ferrara

  7957. "I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God." - Roger Ailes

  7958. "Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis." - Gever Tulley

  7959. "I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday." - Logic

  7960. "I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start." - Adam Rippon

  7961. "Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big." - Peter Diamandis

  7962. "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God." - Smokey Robinson

  7963. "There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning." - Phyllis Logan

  7964. "We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  7965. "I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie." - Robert Osborne

  7966. "I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure." - Gordon Ramsay

  7967. "I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being." - Mackenzie Davis

  7968. "I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below." - Angus Wilson

  7969. "My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom." - Andrew Rannells

  7970. "We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." - Lauren Hutton

  7971. "You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!" - Ivanka Trump

  7972. "If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore." - John Cooper Clarke

  7973. "The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other." - Sammy Davis, Jr.

  7974. "God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful." - Henri Nouwen

  7975. "My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate." - Rory O'Malley

  7976. "If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same." - John Oates

  7977. "I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise." - Jessica Savitch

  7978. "There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing." - Travis Kalanick

  7979. "The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection." - Henri Nouwen

  7980. "Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher

  7981. "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." - Robert H. Schuller

  7982. "Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick." - Michael Mina

  7983. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  7984. "Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite." - Dick Van Dyke

  7985. "They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together." - Al Roker

  7986. "As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything." - Jerry Hall

  7987. "I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to." - Frank Luntz

  7988. "The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?" - Pamela Druckerman

  7989. "I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world." - Dennis Edwards

  7990. "There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself." - Dave Davies

  7991. "Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning." - Jo Brand

  7992. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  7993. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  7994. "My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot." - Fred Armisen

  7995. "Christmas albums are not something you do frequently." - Isaac Hanson

  7996. "Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'" - Ming-Na Wen

  7997. "It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'" - Christine Lakin

  7998. "I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe." - Bat for Lashes

  7999. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  8000. "Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people." - Ziggy Marley

  8001. "God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own." - Johannes Tauler

  8002. "My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one." - Jim Beaver

  8003. "Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'" - Bill Maher

  8004. "To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ." - Bernhard Langer

  8005. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  8006. "A film like 'Dangal' is universal; though it narrates a story that happened in Punjab/Haryana, we like its inspirational story and its idea of celebrating the girl child." - Karthi

  8007. "God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble." - Ezra Taft Benson

  8008. "Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on." - Chris Frantz

  8009. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  8010. "The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover." - Karen Salmansohn

  8011. "Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity." - Charles Spurgeon

  8012. "My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be." - August Alsina

  8013. "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way." - Joel Osteen

  8014. "I'm not really big on gifts. I like giving back on my birthday." - Liza Soberano

  8015. "A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory." - Liz Goldwyn

  8016. "Seeing lights being put up along the street and these colored lanterns called parols being put up at people's houses makes Christmas in Philippines magical." - Catriona Gray

  8017. "Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century." - Claire Tomalin

  8018. "It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it." - Lindsey Vonn

  8019. "I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat." - Gillian Jacobs

  8020. "Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational." - Andris Nelsons

  8021. "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking

  8022. "I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process." - Catherine Ryan Hyde

  8023. "When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner." - Gigi Hadid

  8024. "A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed." - David Joseph Schwartz

  8025. "I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down." - Mo Rocca

  8026. "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." - Mary Kay Ash

  8027. "The authentic self is the soul made visible." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

  8028. "It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God's grace." - Dhanush

  8029. "Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned." - Myles Kennedy

  8030. "With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland." - Sheamus

  8031. "And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better." - Mitt Romney

  8032. "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book." - Joseph Smith, Jr.

  8033. "I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to." - Frank Luntz

  8034. "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

  8035. "The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies." - Imre Lakatos

  8036. "The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday." - Paris Hilton

  8037. "During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ." - TobyMac

  8038. "I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen." - Erykah Badu

  8039. "I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for Christmas, so beautiful! Alasdhair's very good at the proportion and ground work, and I come in and do the planting and the color scheme." - Stella McCartney

  8040. "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs." - Hunter S. Thompson

  8041. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  8042. "I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her." - Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  8043. "And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present." - John Guare

  8044. "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace." - Charles Spurgeon

  8045. "That is part of the problem, that lack of belief in yourself because you don't see success around you. I guess that breeds defeatism, so yes there does need to be resources out there and support that will nurture talent that I believe is there, and passion that I know is there." - Kano

  8046. "I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion." - Yogi Adityanath

  8047. "The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you." - Bette Midler

  8048. "A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away." - Ellen Glasgow

  8049. "My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!" - Molly Bloom

  8050. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" - Audrey Hepburn

  8051. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

  8052. "Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed." - P. J. O'Rourke

  8053. "A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego." - Roseanne Barr

  8054. "I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning." - Albert Brooks

  8055. "Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people." - Kim Jong-un

  8056. "I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask." - Shawn Crahan

  8057. "That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  8058. "I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds." - Jonathan Tucker

  8059. "I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it." - Nathaniel Philbrick

  8060. "I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September." - Jon Scieszka

  8061. "Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious." - Curtis Jackson

  8062. "Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people." - Joyce Meyer

  8063. "Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best." - Marilu Henner

  8064. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  8065. "I'm African-American. I'd rather follow an African religion. That's my heritage." - 21 Savage

  8066. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  8067. "I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back." - Junior Seau

  8068. "The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist." - Richard Coles

  8069. "One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin

  8070. "It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver." - Betty White

  8071. "You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good." - Hans Bender

  8072. "It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football." - Mesut Ozil

  8073. "I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way." - Ben Carson

  8074. "Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational." - Taboo

  8075. "By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation." - Gabby Douglas

  8076. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  8077. "Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists." - Bill O'Reilly

  8078. "I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites." - Drew Carey

  8079. "I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings." - Ron Ben-Israel

  8080. "Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary." - Kiefer Sutherland

  8081. "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides

  8082. "Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights." - Chris Young

  8083. "I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality." - Matt Haig

  8084. "The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever." - David Bowie

  8085. "When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit." - Brenda Lee

  8086. "At my company, we have 300 employees spread across offices all over the world, and I send them all a voicemail each morning with a message from me about why our work is important and a reminder about one of our values. I call myself our company's 'chief spiritual officer.'" - Ken Blanchard

  8087. "You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it." - Curtis Stone

  8088. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  8089. "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday." - John Clayton

  8090. "My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up." - Maye Musk

  8091. "I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that." - Howie Mandel

  8092. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

  8093. "Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone." - Jason Bateman

  8094. "Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth." - Philip James Bailey

  8095. "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten

  8096. "Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite." - Dick Van Dyke

  8097. "It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job." - Aretha Franklin

  8098. "Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do, and that's why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring, got the right training, the right diet, everything." - Mikey Garcia

  8099. "On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else." - George Clooney

  8100. "You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier." - Bill Callahan

  8101. "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge

  8102. "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." - Charles Dudley Warner

  8103. "My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning." - Ryan Lochte

  8104. "Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success." - Shawn Achor

  8105. "On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur." - Bob Goff

  8106. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  8107. "I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism." - Mj Rodriguez

  8108. "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens

  8109. "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." - Rabindranath Tagore

  8110. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  8111. "I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!" - Eric Stonestreet

  8112. "A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world." - James Faulkner

  8113. "Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better." - Tony Levin

  8114. "And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track." - Demetri Martin

  8115. "I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write." - Carmen Agra Deedy

  8116. "You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what." - Ciara

  8117. "My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party." - David Hewlett

  8118. "Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well." - R. Madhavan

  8119. "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive." - Yoko Ono

  8120. "It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success." - Amy Tan

  8121. "Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  8122. "The only thing better than singing is more singing." - Ella Fitzgerald

  8123. "It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God's grace." - Dhanush

  8124. "I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am." - Javed Ali

  8125. "Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life." - Ryan Guzman

  8126. "I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear." - Joyce Meyer

  8127. "I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important." - Idina Menzel

  8128. "It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline." - Harvey Mackay

  8129. "I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out." - Edward Burtynsky

  8130. "This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land." - Du Fu

  8131. "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith." - Mahatma Gandhi

  8132. "If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you." - Mahalia Jackson

  8133. "I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force." - Trey Parker

  8134. "I remember it was Dr. Seuss' birthday, and I got to read to the little ones and that was just an awesome experience. I remember when I was a young knucklehead and having that access to an after-school program in my community. It's something that hits home to me and something I wanted to always be a part of." - Travis Kelce

  8135. "Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic." - Biz Stone

  8136. "Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!" - Jeanne Marie Laskas

  8137. "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." - Rabindranath Tagore

  8138. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  8139. "I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better." - Juliette Lewis

  8140. "I didn't choose 'Silver Spoons'. I think my mom and agent chose it because at that time there was a lack of patience on some of the people that were in charge of my career. I think there was a big offer on the table, and I think they took it." - Ricky Schroder

  8141. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  8142. "As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it." - Helen Hunt Jackson

  8143. "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever." - Lisa Leslie

  8144. "I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." - DJ Khaled

  8145. "I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God." - A. R. Rahman

  8146. "'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class." - Jason Scott Lee

  8147. "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln

  8148. "Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'" - Annie Dillard

  8149. "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions." - Scott Ian

  8150. "Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

  8151. "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein

  8152. "People fall forward to success." - Mary Kay Ash

  8153. "My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me." - Zion Williamson

  8154. "What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from." - Daniel Humm

  8155. "Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists." - Thomas Friedman

  8156. "Just like it's not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling disappointed when reality doesn't live up to your fantasy." - Amy Morin

  8157. "When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day." - Lynda Resnick

  8158. "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  8159. "Being surrounded with such positive people always helps." - Donovan Bailey

  8160. "I shared so much with Massimo Oddo. He's an intelligent and funny guy whose success speaks for him. He got a few slaps in the face from me for his pranks, as we had very different ideas on how to prepare for a game." - Gennaro Gattuso

  8161. "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." - Abraham Lincoln

  8162. "I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's." - Kate Hudson

  8163. "Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me." - Karl Lagerfeld

  8164. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

  8165. "For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in - whether it's through social-media platforms, whether it's through speeches, whether it's through interviews - that's always a positive." - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  8166. "I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously." - Catherine O'Hara

  8167. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  8168. "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." - Bernard Williams

  8169. "I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing." - Gladys Knight

  8170. "For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress." - Rachel Riley

  8171. "And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man." - A. E. Housman

  8172. "Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from." - Rodney Atkins

  8173. "The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself." - Lindsey Stirling

  8174. "John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer." - Robert Dallek

  8175. "Have faith in God; God has faith in you." - Edwin Louis Cole

  8176. "In Bollywood, birthday celebrations are usual and very carefree." - Arbaaz Khan

  8177. "I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling." - Kimberley Nixon

  8178. "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." - Honore de Balzac

  8179. "All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it." - Young Jeezy

  8180. "Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to." - Christina Perri

  8181. "The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe." - Sam Harris

  8182. "Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion." - Bill O'Reilly

  8183. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  8184. "Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success." - Peter Pace

  8185. "I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future." - John Cusack

  8186. "Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family." - Gene Cernan

  8187. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  8188. "Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice." - Greg Davies

  8189. "My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round." - Cindy Margolis

  8190. "I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me." - Dove Cameron

  8191. "No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is." - Rush Limbaugh

  8192. "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler

  8193. "I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face." - Stephen Hopkins

  8194. "Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies." - Sheherazade Goldsmith

  8195. "Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  8196. "Prayer is man's greatest power!" - W. Clement Stone

  8197. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  8198. "My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!" - Ashley Graham

  8199. "Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun." - Kanye West

  8200. "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." - Buddha

  8201. "I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack." - Jodi Picoult

  8202. "Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines." - Gloria Trevi

  8203. "Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive." - Sam Hunt

  8204. "Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help." - Pope Paul VI

  8205. "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure." - Sylvester Stallone

  8206. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

  8207. "I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'" - Jensen Ackles

  8208. "I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for." - Diana Lopez

  8209. "Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon." - John C. Reilly

  8210. "There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table." - Danny Meyer

  8211. "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday." - Eleanor Roosevelt

  8212. "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me." - David Bailey

  8213. "Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory." - Will Durant

  8214. "I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic." - Monica Bellucci

  8215. "I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me." - Gabby Douglas

  8216. "To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin." - Donatella Versace

  8217. "All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit." - Bobby Knight

  8218. "Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living." - Gilbert Parker

  8219. "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring." - Donatella Versace

  8220. "To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom." - Rowan Atkinson

  8221. "I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours." - Trisha Yearwood

  8222. "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice." - Pope Paul VI

  8223. "Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving." - Joseph Auslander

  8224. "My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud." - Henry Rollins

  8225. "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith

  8226. "Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world." - Damien Rice

  8227. "When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one." - Dean Rusk

  8228. "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." - Washington Irving

  8229. "My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God." - Sonny Sandoval

  8230. "I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from." - Zoe Kravitz

  8231. "I exercise six days a week for one hour in the morning." - Akkineni Nagarjuna

  8232. "Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life." - Tony Evans

  8233. "John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time." - Maureen O'Hara

  8234. "I'm not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I'm a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to." - Emily Wickersham

  8235. "My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time." - Julia Roberts

  8236. "I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?" - Ian St. John

  8237. "If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from." - Yuval Noah Harari

  8238. "When I was doing the breakfast show, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go fishing before doing the show." - Chris Tarrant

  8239. "There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love." - Wayne Dyer

  8240. "My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'" - Joe Biden

  8241. "There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!" - Monica Johnson

  8242. "I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?" - Melanie Griffith

  8243. "My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me." - John Caudwell

  8244. "When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done." - Chuck Schumer

  8245. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  8246. "My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey." - Adam Lambert

  8247. "The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity." - Ashwin Sanghi

  8248. "Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back." - Martin Yan

  8249. "Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow." - David Carson

  8250. "The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'" - Adriana Trigiani

  8251. "When I was 13, my mom said she had a dream that I would win Miss Universe in a red dress." - Catriona Gray

  8252. "Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability." - Opal Tometi

  8253. "I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out." - Edward Burtynsky

  8254. "Every morning when I woke up, I would pray, 'I have to throw today, please let there be no pain.' Those were very gloomy days. Meanwhile, the atmosphere around me had become, 'Is he faking an injury?' 'Is it a mental problem?' Those words made it extremely difficult for me to stop and rest, and it really took a toll on me emotionally." - Yu Darvish

  8255. "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein

  8256. "Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us." - Lady Gaga

  8257. "My mom and grandma always told me: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's something everyone needs to be more conscious about. Putting more positive energy out into the world would be so beneficial." - Madison Keys

  8258. "I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper." - Henry Rollins

  8259. "My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom." - Andrew Rannells

  8260. "The success of the film is down to the crew." - Dougray Scott

  8261. "A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine." - Steven Biko

  8262. "When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world." - Victor Ortiz

  8263. "The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right." - Paul Downs Colaizzo

  8264. "Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body." - Erin Heatherton

  8265. "Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24." - David M. Shoup

  8266. "I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her." - Martie Maguire

  8267. "It never gets old seeing somebody do something positive for somebody else." - Xzibit

  8268. "My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young." - Paulina Porizkova

  8269. "When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one." - Dean Rusk

  8270. "Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world." - John O. Brennan

  8271. "If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful." - Bobby McFerrin

  8272. "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." - Lydia M. Child

  8273. "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions." - Scott Ian

  8274. "My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people." - Ashleigh Murray

  8275. "If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides." - Charles de Montesquieu

  8276. "There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts." - Adam Mansbach

  8277. "There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me." - Chris Cornell

  8278. "I left school on my 15th birthday." - David Bailey

  8279. "You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale." - Marillyn Hewson

  8280. "Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake." - Walter Lord

  8281. "Do your best and leave the rest to God." - Manisha Koirala

  8282. "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh." - Benny Hinn

  8283. "During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas." - Nancy Pearcey

  8284. "Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do, and that's why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring, got the right training, the right diet, everything." - Mikey Garcia

  8285. "When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own." - Dan Levy

  8286. "In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines." - Jennifer Lee

  8287. "One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!" - Mac DeMarco

  8288. "I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  8289. "Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas." - Billy Graham

  8290. "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!" - Rodney Atkins

  8291. "For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat." - Wallis Simpson

  8292. "What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing." - Will Oldham

  8293. "When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office." - Peter Billingsley

  8294. "I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that's an experience every girl should have." - Ronda Rousey

  8295. "It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old." - Michael Che

  8296. "I will always find a way to find a positive from things." - Daniel Ricciardo

  8297. "Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat." - Kate Levering

  8298. "And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity." - Nolan Ryan

  8299. "America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different." - Adora Svitak

  8300. "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan

  8301. "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad." - will.i.am

  8302. "There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion." - Cat Stevens

  8303. "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take." - Christopher Reeve

  8304. "Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." - Konrad von Gesner

  8305. "Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state." - Norman Lamm

  8306. "I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy." - Deshaun Watson

  8307. "I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years." - Jamie Lawson

  8308. "I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems." - Hina Khan

  8309. "The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday." - Charles M. Blow

  8310. "I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion." - Yogi Adityanath

  8311. "Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings." - Martin Seligman

  8312. "Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself." - Kary Mullis

  8313. "Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels." - Neal Boortz

  8314. "Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  8315. "Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well." - John Greenleaf Whittier

  8316. "I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid." - Tyler, The Creator

  8317. "A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." - Joyce Meyer

  8318. "Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters." - John Wooden

  8319. "There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it." - P. T. Barnum

  8320. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  8321. "Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well." - Tom Rath

  8322. "Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  8323. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

  8324. "I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years." - Mark Bridges

  8325. "I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.'" - Lily James

  8326. "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." - Leo Buscaglia

  8327. "I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday." - Charlie Trotter

  8328. "Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be." - Joel Osteen

  8329. "No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning." - D. L. Hughley

  8330. "I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then." - Post Malone

  8331. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts

  8332. "I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees." - Tammy Duckworth

  8333. "That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others." - Sri Aurobindo

  8334. "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

  8335. "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." - Joyce Meyer

  8336. "We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message." - Pepa

  8337. "I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  8338. "I buck the trend: I eat avocados on a Sunday morning and I'm a homeowner." - Russell Howard

  8339. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi

  8340. "I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile." - Stella Young

  8341. "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Khalil Gibran

  8342. "I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways." - Fei-Fei Li

  8343. "I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom." - Josh Homme

  8344. "The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years." - Declan Donnelly

  8345. "Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive." - Lil B

  8346. "From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off." - Frank Lowy

  8347. "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." - Phylicia Rashad

  8348. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

  8349. "My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives." - Kid Cudi

  8350. "Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for." - Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  8351. "There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus." - Monica Johnson

  8352. "What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  8353. "I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways - the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with." - David Hogg

  8354. "My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian." - Christie Brinkley

  8355. "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!" - Ken Hensley

  8356. "I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory." - Alan Moore

  8357. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  8358. "For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house." - Kevin Jonas

  8359. "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben

  8360. "I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring." - Tara Westover

  8361. "For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry." - Malaika Arora Khan

  8362. "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success." - Michael Korda

  8363. "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." - Don Rickles

  8364. "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely." - Truman Capote

  8365. "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth." - Raoul Vaneigem

  8366. "Twitter, I always say is the drunk uncle of my personality, because I say some stuff sometimes that, you know that drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table, he starts rambling on about, that he shouldn't have said so sometimes I do that." - Fabolous

  8367. "Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning." - Samuel Butler

  8368. "I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  8369. "I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor." - Joan Rivers

  8370. "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success." - Jim Backus

  8371. "I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip." - Ne-Yo

  8372. "My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures." - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  8373. "Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work." - Emanuel Cleaver

  8374. "I think we just need to keep moving forward in a positive way." - Ray J

  8375. "I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me." - Gene Hackman

  8376. "The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  8377. "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." - Steve Harvey

  8378. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

  8379. "I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough." - Johnny Vegas

  8380. "As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive." - LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  8381. "I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization." - Stephen Baldwin

  8382. "I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God." - Laurence Fishburne

  8383. "We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day." - Perry Como

  8384. "If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?" - Al Jourgensen

  8385. "Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion." - Samuel Gompers

  8386. "I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day." - Aimee Bender

  8387. "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" - Jennifer Aniston

  8388. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." - Walt Whitman

  8389. "As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success." - Tamara Taylor

  8390. "Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them." - Thalia

  8391. "I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas." - Karlie Kloss

  8392. "I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am." - Javed Ali

  8393. "I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'" - Vincent Rodriguez III

  8394. "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most." - Jenson Button

  8395. "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." - Martina Hingis

  8396. "'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Lee Bermejo

  8397. "I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." - DJ Khaled

  8398. "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson

  8399. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  8400. "I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel." - Shashi Tharoor

  8401. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

  8402. "I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts." - Leandra Medine

  8403. "Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance." - Reba McEntire

  8404. "Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error." - Robert Owen

  8405. "I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them." - Tristram Stuart

  8406. "I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips." - Mel B

  8407. "Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God." - Monica Johnson

  8408. "I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday." - Jesse Plemons

  8409. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron

  8410. "I'm a person who watches TV all the time - all the time; I love TV. And I really think that the media heavily influences how we as a society behave towards each other. And one of the things that I find to be lacking on television are positive images of diversity." - Maysoon Zayid

  8411. "I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe." - Maysoon Zayid

  8412. "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success." - Michael Korda

  8413. "I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway." - Grace Jones

  8414. "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face." - Ronald Reagan

  8415. "My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!" - Debby Ryan

  8416. "In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year." - Julian Baggini

  8417. "Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet." - Joni Ernst

  8418. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

  8419. "Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive." - Janet Jackson

  8420. "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn

  8421. "I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that." - Maysoon Zayid

  8422. "The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything." - Nelson Rockefeller

  8423. "Whatever God has given me, I feel blessed but I don't take it for granted." - Diljit Dosanjh

  8424. "PUMA has been an iconic name in the fashion world for decades, their ability to remain at the top of the game in not only sportswear, but in culture and fashion is inspirational." - Yo Gotti

  8425. "I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world." - Jami Gertz

  8426. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  8427. "I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting." - Jim Lampley

  8428. "For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed." - Chris Evans

  8429. "I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and everything, I have a half cup of warm lemon water. I've been doing that forever. I love it. It just brightens everything for me." - Grace Hightower

  8430. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  8431. "People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish." - Emma Watson

  8432. "It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion." - Billy Graham

  8433. "What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps." - Thomas S. Monson

  8434. "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

  8435. "I play for God and only God." - Memphis Depay

  8436. "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter." - Walt Disney

  8437. "I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50." - Maria Conchita Alonso

  8438. "The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns." - Richard Roeper

  8439. "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus

  8440. "A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life." - Mena Suvari

  8441. "I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself." - Mia Hamm

  8442. "Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects." - Ian Ziering

  8443. "The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God." - El DeBarge

  8444. "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns

  8445. "Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland

  8446. "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother." - Claudette Colbert

  8447. "God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing." - Reinhard Bonnke

  8448. "That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about." - Alan King

  8449. "The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection." - Arianna Huffington

  8450. "I listen to music - Lady Gaga, Kanye, Jay-Z, the Beatles, Robert Plant - while I'm walking down Fifth Avenue to my office in the Trump Tower early each morning." - Ivanka Trump

  8451. "I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday." - Jesse Plemons

  8452. "Thank God for the journey." - James Brown

  8453. "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." - Ralph W. Sockman

  8454. "My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me." - Tim Howard

  8455. "I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved." - Pierce Brosnan

  8456. "The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!" - Sherry Yard

  8457. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda

  8458. "I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives." - Ann Voskamp

  8459. "And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present." - John Guare

  8460. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  8461. "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

  8462. "It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more." - Ann Romney

  8463. "So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact." - Trey Parker

  8464. "No matter where you're from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else - what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha... sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God." - Tulsi Gabbard

  8465. "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." - Soledad O'Brien

  8466. "You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others." - Jane Roberts

  8467. "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

  8468. "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." - Zora Neale Hurston

  8469. "Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect." - Ziggy Marley

  8470. "My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey." - Adam Lambert

  8471. "I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger." - Jacob Latimore

  8472. "I never looked at ECW as wrestling. I always considered it more of a theology. I don't know whether I had or didn't have a messianic complex during that time. But I bought into the movement as much as, if not more than, anybody else. If I sold anyone on the religion of extreme, I was its number-one customer." - Paul Heyman

  8473. "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

  8474. "I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house." - Jay-Z

  8475. "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it." - Tricia Helfer

  8476. "Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment." - Janet Evanovich

  8477. "It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday." - Nino Schurter

  8478. "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved." - Samuel Smiles

  8479. "What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?" - Rose Kennedy

  8480. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  8481. "When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much." - Will Ferrell

  8482. "Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in." - Simon Van Booy

  8483. "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff." - Sojourner Truth

  8484. "Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on." - Paula Abdul

  8485. "The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility." - Charles Kettering

  8486. "You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie." - Lydia Lunch

  8487. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  8488. "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think." - Arthur Schopenhauer

  8489. "To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me." - Andrea Bocelli

  8490. "Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out." - Julian Fellowes

  8491. "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain

  8492. "If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that." - Sean Quinn

  8493. "My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily." - Sarah Koenig

  8494. "Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity." - Karen Armstrong

  8495. "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson

  8496. "I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor." - Sonu Sood

  8497. "I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving." - Alex Morgan

  8498. "I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!" - Jesse McCartney

  8499. "Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management." - Cheryl Crawford

  8500. "Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them." - Jack Canfield

  8501. "All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way." - Mary Berry

  8502. "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs

  8503. "The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'" - Max Lucado

  8504. "When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance." - Joel Osteen

  8505. "Her success is my success." - Nick Lachey

  8506. "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" - C. S. Lewis

  8507. "The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other's cartoons." - Paul Dini

  8508. "For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house." - Kevin Jonas

  8509. "In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor." - Tim Griffin

  8510. "I like to do a little bit of exercise in the morning. I try to do, like, 20 to 25 push-ups in the morning, just to kind of get the blood flowing." - Martha MacCallum

  8511. "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." - Larry Ellison

  8512. "Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall." - Scott Turow

  8513. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

  8514. "Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  8515. "Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels." - Shari Arison

  8516. "An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty." - Richard Branson

  8517. "I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide." - Wladimir Klitschko

  8518. "Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited." - Gottfried Leibniz

  8519. "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

  8520. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  8521. "It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great." - Russell Crowe

  8522. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  8523. "I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers." - Ian McLagan

  8524. "Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity." - Chris Van Allsburg

  8525. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - Francis of Assisi

  8526. "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." - Khalil Gibran

  8527. "My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army." - Akshay Kumar

  8528. "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal." - Carol P. Christ

  8529. "How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination." - Nellie Bly

  8530. "Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin." - Joseph Prince

  8531. "My mother always bought our birthday gifts." - Bruce Eric Kaplan

  8532. "Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt." - P. J. O'Rourke

  8533. "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." - Earl Nightingale

  8534. "Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career." - Jack Youngblood

  8535. "No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  8536. "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten

  8537. "I count the weeks and days before my birthday." - Parineeti Chopra

  8538. "Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure." - Jerry Spinelli

  8539. "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most." - Jenson Button

  8540. "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment." - Tony Robbins

  8541. "Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge." - Lewis Howes

  8542. "I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me." - Daron Malakian

  8543. "My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school." - John Paul DeJoria

  8544. "The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story." - Roger Wang

  8545. "Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not." - Priyanka Chopra

  8546. "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." - John Ruskin

  8547. "To me, people are going to judge you no matter what, no matter how you put yourself out there. In my opinion, they can judge however they want to. Hopefully, it's in a positive light." - Michelle Waterson

  8548. "My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married." - Kirstin Maldonado

  8549. "Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing." - Jeremy Heimans

  8550. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts

  8551. "From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." - Guru Nanak

  8552. "When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together." - Tyler Posey

  8553. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  8554. "I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith." - Sayani Gupta

  8555. "At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  8556. "Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art." - Ezra Pound

  8557. "The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion." - Ulrich Beck

  8558. "I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success." - Mary Berry

  8559. "People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents." - Bryce Courtenay

  8560. "I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive." - Drew McIntyre

  8561. "I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful." - Monica Johnson

  8562. "Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle." - Jay Shetty

  8563. "When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended." - Sheck Wes

  8564. "When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey." - Ray Davies

  8565. "I definitely break out karaoke when my friends have birthday parties." - Josh Groban

  8566. "I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful." - Lenny Kravitz

  8567. "I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood." - Rip Torn

  8568. "My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways." - Kerri Walsh Jennings

  8569. "They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats." - Chuck Feeney

  8570. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

  8571. "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." - Gertrude Stein

  8572. "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." - James Madison

  8573. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges

  8574. "Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue." - Amos Oz

  8575. "The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success." - David Sarnoff

  8576. "Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it." - Florence King

  8577. "The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words." - Johnny Iuzzini

  8578. "I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.'" - Ginuwine

  8579. "Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always." - Sadio Mane

  8580. "As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion." - James Lankford

  8581. "Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions." - Nikolai Gogol

  8582. "I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album." - Estelle

  8583. "Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason." - Charles de Secondat

  8584. "There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world." - Peter James

  8585. "Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals." - Amy Morin

  8586. "Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight." - Lillian Hellman

  8587. "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning." - P. J. O'Rourke

  8588. "When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?" - Deborah Tannen

  8589. "I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like." - Kate Garraway

  8590. "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody." - Mojo Nixon

  8591. "I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths." - Gina Rodriguez

  8592. "London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy." - David Schwimmer

  8593. "Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  8594. "I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares." - Conchita Wurst

  8595. "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" - John Muir

  8596. "I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day." - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

  8597. "I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling." - Marcus Brigstocke

  8598. "I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?" - Brian Jacques

  8599. "My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in 'Billy Elliot the Musical.'" - Tom Holland

  8600. "If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy." - Simone Biles

  8601. "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you." - Jay-Z

  8602. "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." - Alan Turing

  8603. "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill

  8604. "I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time." - Jeremy Corbyn

  8605. "Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past." - Homaro Cantu

  8606. "Couldn't start the morning without caffeine." - Ginnifer Goodwin

  8607. "In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard." - John Grisham

  8608. "Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know." - Sylvie Guillem

  8609. "Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible." - Mark Hopkins

  8610. "I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like." - Kirstin Maldonado

  8611. "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

  8612. "Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work." - Samina Baig

  8613. "Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all." - Marco Rubio

  8614. "My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass." - Jimmy Fallon

  8615. "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." - Jim Rohn

  8616. "I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society." - Kerry Washington

  8617. "My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out." - Jess Walter

  8618. "I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me." - Shashi Tharoor

  8619. "Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays." - Michael Birch

  8620. "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  8621. "You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools." - Mike Gallagher

  8622. "Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary." - Bindi Irwin

  8623. "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him." - Thomas Hardy

  8624. "I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children." - John Cornforth

  8625. "Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions." - Ellen Hopkins

  8626. "When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could." - Astro Teller

  8627. "My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!" - Brody Jenner

  8628. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  8629. "When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place." - Margaret Cho

  8630. "Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back." - Mary Daly

  8631. "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may." - Joseph Lancaster

  8632. "At my age flowers scare me." - George Burns

  8633. "I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story,' in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that." - Paul Dini

  8634. "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

  8635. "My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom." - Miley Cyrus

  8636. "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." - Desmond Tutu

  8637. "When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge." - John Rocha

  8638. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  8639. "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." - Charles V

  8640. "We are here to make another world." - W. Edwards Deming

  8641. "God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing." - Billy Graham

  8642. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  8643. "I have spent three and a half wonderful years at Arsenal, and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans." - Alexis Sanchez

  8644. "Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music." - Adnan Sami

  8645. "While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun." - Jean Chatzky

  8646. "My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing." - Raini Rodriguez

  8647. "My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time." - Jim Carrey

  8648. "I didn't even walk for graduation - I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn't have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn't write one of them. She literally got me my diploma." - Lil Peep

  8649. "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God." - Jim Elliot

  8650. "With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties." - Lisa Loeb

  8651. "I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge." - Leonard Maltin

  8652. "Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut." - Allison Tolman

  8653. "The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out." - Solomon Burke

  8654. "The X Factor' was amazing because I like being a positive role model to young artists; that's what I believe in. If I can shed some light and give them some tips on how to believe in themselves and be more confident with their craft." - Redfoo

  8655. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  8656. "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top." - Margaret Thatcher

  8657. "My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes." - Allison Williams

  8658. "We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning; we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!" - Darcey Bussell

  8659. "Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish." - Madi Diaz

  8660. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it." - Boris Johnson

  8661. "I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  8662. "Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday." - Bret Hart

  8663. "Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God." - Fethullah Gulen

  8664. "I know America is very nice and very good people. I'm a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I'm always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules." - Khabib Nurmagomedov

  8665. "Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her." - Alexa Von Tobel

  8666. "On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend." - Eliot Sumner

  8667. "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it." - Joan Lunden

  8668. "Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima." - Pablo Picasso

  8669. "I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M." - James Rodriguez

  8670. "You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community." - Israel Folau

  8671. "Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu

  8672. "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants." - Kevin James

  8673. "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way." - Joel Osteen

  8674. "When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor's fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions." - Ajith Kumar

  8675. "Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere." - Robin Morgan

  8676. "Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!" - Donna Karan

  8677. "My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude." - Debi Mazar

  8678. "To love another person is to see the face of God." - Victor Hugo

  8679. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  8680. "Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'" - Sophie Turner

  8681. "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him." - Thomas Hardy

  8682. "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day." - Dag Hammarskjold

  8683. "God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?" - Alan Paton

  8684. "I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom." - Kerry Kennedy

  8685. "Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in." - Marcelene Cox

  8686. "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success." - Og Mandino

  8687. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  8688. "I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece." - Diane Kruger

  8689. "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not." - Ursula K. Le Guin

  8690. "I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." - Bob Marley

  8691. "I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays." - Bryson Tiller

  8692. "If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people." - Abu Bakr

  8693. "Every morning I wake up and thank God." - Aaron Neville

  8694. "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won." - Paul Merton

  8695. "Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude." - Bikram Choudhury

  8696. "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

  8697. "My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army." - Akshay Kumar

  8698. "The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth." - David Ogden Stiers

  8699. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  8700. "I'm religiously opposed to religion." - Victor Hugo

  8701. "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven." - Russell M. Nelson

  8702. "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad." - Thomas Paine

  8703. "I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes." - Lech Walesa

  8704. "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller

  8705. "Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard." - Mayte Garcia

  8706. "I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can." - Tichina Arnold

  8707. "I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you're a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook." - Gunnar Peterson

  8708. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas A. Edison

  8709. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  8710. "When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults." - Daniel Bell

  8711. "First of all, I try to be a positive role model." - Caitlyn Jenner

  8712. "Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational." - Cecile McLorin Salvant

  8713. "Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to." - Christina Perri

  8714. "It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak." - Michael Rosbash

  8715. "God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  8716. "Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)." - Janet Napolitano

  8717. "There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out." - Ashton Kutcher

  8718. "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results." - William James

  8719. "Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand." - Karl Marx

  8720. "If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?" - Shannen Doherty

  8721. "I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies." - Lucas Grabeel

  8722. "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." - Alan Turing

  8723. "I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together." - Monica

  8724. "My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong." - Travis Barker

  8725. "My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life." - Dikembe Mutombo

  8726. "Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over." - Shannon Bream

  8727. "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure." - Jean Kerr

  8728. "I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing." - Mark Wahlberg

  8729. "Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left." - John Waters

  8730. "Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold." - Ellie Goulding

  8731. "Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone." - Asif Kapadia

  8732. "Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish." - Rico Nasty

  8733. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." - Tommy Douglas

  8734. "There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh." - Kristen Wiig

  8735. "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." - Earl Nightingale

  8736. "You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days." - Anne Murray

  8737. "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season." - Evan Davis

  8738. "I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers." - Jessica Sanchez

  8739. "It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills." - Yaya Han

  8740. "Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you." - Delilah

  8741. "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

  8742. "When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good." - Lindsey Vonn

  8743. "As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since." - Paul George

  8744. "When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own." - Dan Levy

  8745. "I will always find a way to find a positive from things." - Daniel Ricciardo

  8746. "I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum." - Peter O'Toole

  8747. "Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness." - Nathaniel Parker Willis

  8748. "You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people." - Dennis Kucinich

  8749. "Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  8750. "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get." - Kevin Spacey

  8751. "The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong." - Rick Perry

  8752. "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Richard Burton

  8753. "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch

  8754. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  8755. "I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own." - Ne-Yo

  8756. "I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid." - Nick Diaz

  8757. "I believe in the Devil. I believe there's a God, too. I met God at church - the Catholic Church." - Trippie Redd

  8758. "God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - H. L. Mencken

  8759. "If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life." - Ratan Tata

  8760. "The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that." - Ian Somerhalder

  8761. "I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things." - Tom Green

  8762. "I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce." - Mallory Jansen

  8763. "Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people." - John McEnroe

  8764. "Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river." - Eckhart Tolle

  8765. "I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth." - Walter O'Brien

  8766. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

  8767. "My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core." - Vin Diesel

  8768. "I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know." - Marian McPartland

  8769. "I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?" - Jim Capaldi

  8770. "I think that success is having fun." - Bruno Mars

  8771. "Only stupid people are changed by success." - Jurgen Klopp

  8772. "One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'" - Michio Kaku

  8773. "I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday." - Dennis Quaid

  8774. "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success." - Cullen Hightower

  8775. "Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were exhausted by those properties. Exactly the opposite is the case: the authentic dimension of subjectivity consists not in any positive identity but in that which makes identifications." - Mark Fisher

  8776. "I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring." - Alice Roberts

  8777. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  8778. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  8779. "I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me." - Anthony Ray Hinton

  8780. "God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live." - Stephen King

  8781. "I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer." - George Ezra

  8782. "The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa

  8783. "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." - Honore de Balzac

  8784. "There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'" - Jane Goldman

  8785. "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." - Walter Pater

  8786. "If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?" - Boethius

  8787. "Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me." - Marlee Matlin

  8788. "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage." - Charles Luckman

  8789. "Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome." - Zig Ziglar

  8790. "If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds." - Brian Armstrong

  8791. "If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all." - Alex Borstein

  8792. "I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds." - Jonathan Tucker

  8793. "I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide." - Dylan Lauren

  8794. "I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world." - Angela Ahrendts

  8795. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  8796. "We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope." - Jim Lovell

  8797. "I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II." - Douglas Brunt

  8798. "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State." - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  8799. "I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history." - Canelo Alvarez

  8800. "My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me." - Nate Robinson

  8801. "People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'" - Twyla Tharp

  8802. "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." - Patricia Neal

  8803. "For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!" - Eva Green

  8804. "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way." - Dave Chappelle

  8805. "Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning." - Liam Neeson

  8806. "Let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette

  8807. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln

  8808. "My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish." - Jencarlos Canela

  8809. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge

  8810. "I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." - Roger Federer

  8811. "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." - Thomas Jefferson

  8812. "As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment." - Christina Tosi

  8813. "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act." - Mahatma Gandhi

  8814. "My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke." - Jorge Masvidal

  8815. "I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch." - Ana Ortiz

  8816. "That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun." - Monica Seles

  8817. "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business." - Jeff Bezos

  8818. "Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy's levelling impulses could not be more acute." - Mark Fisher

  8819. "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

  8820. "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

  8821. "We never considered Christmas a holiday because the budget was really tight, so Christmas was just a usual day for us." - Pia Wurtzbach

  8822. "If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it." - Dalai Lama

  8823. "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain." - Dakota Fanning

  8824. "Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind." - James Martineau

  8825. "I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message." - Garrett Neff

  8826. "There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures." - Arabella Weir

  8827. "What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming." - Will Speck

  8828. "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery

  8829. "Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death." - Berenice Abbott

  8830. "The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  8831. "I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference." - Tim Scott

  8832. "I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety." - Linda Lael Miller

  8833. "I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do." - Kelly Slater

  8834. "I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration." - William P. Young

  8835. "Ya gotta think positive." - Craig Sager

  8836. "Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Bonnie Raitt

  8837. "If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed." - Richard Dawkins

  8838. "Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion." - Mahatma Gandhi

  8839. "When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve." - Jane Lynch

  8840. "Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom." - Rene Russo

  8841. "A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin

  8842. "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday." - Lawrence Tierney

  8843. "I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York." - Jason Mitchell

  8844. "I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September." - Jon Scieszka

  8845. "I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence." - Angela Bowie

  8846. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  8847. "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love." - Gabriel Byrne

  8848. "I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes." - Sylvester Stallone

  8849. "You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call." - Wayne Dyer

  8850. "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." - Woody Allen

  8851. "Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas." - Gil Marks

  8852. "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - Al Bernstein

  8853. "My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don't like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about." - Sophia Di Martino

  8854. "My mom used to call me Joshy Boucher. I watched 'The Waterboy' so much, my mom started calling me Joshy Boucher. True story." - Josh Allen

  8855. "I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted." - Kaley Cuoco

  8856. "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  8857. "Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." - Henri Nouwen

  8858. "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself." - Robert Collier

  8859. "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God." - Lionel Blue

  8860. "It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills." - Yaya Han

  8861. "The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound." - Naveen Tewari

  8862. "Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it." - Larry the Cable Guy

  8863. "When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge." - John Rocha

  8864. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  8865. "We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special." - Larry the Cable Guy

  8866. "If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm X

  8867. "Success doesn't happen overnight." - Petra Collins

  8868. "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." - Walter Savage Landor

  8869. "When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'" - Valerie Harper

  8870. "There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time." - Yngwie Malmsteen

  8871. "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." - Francis Bacon

  8872. "If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe." - Guru Nanak

  8873. "I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy." - Toni Braxton

  8874. "My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way." - Howard Graham Buffett

  8875. "What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist." - Rebecca Ferguson

  8876. "Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds." - Frank Moore Colby

  8877. "I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators." - Amanda Marshall

  8878. "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  8879. "Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves." - Charles Stanley

  8880. "I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition." - Daniela Ruah

  8881. "Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero." - David R. Ellis

  8882. "Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope." - Diego Maradona

  8883. "I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso." - Khalid

  8884. "Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper." - John Updike

  8885. "I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold." - David Rabe

  8886. "My mornings are really about being with my children, so I tend to lay out my outfit the night before when my children are asleep so I can have a quick turnaround time in the morning." - Ivanka Trump

  8887. "No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is." - Rush Limbaugh

  8888. "BJP's agenda was all wrong. They claimed that India was shining. Is it a utensil which will shine when rubbed? They fooled the people by these slogans and tried to divide them on the lines of religion." - Asrani

  8889. "Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?" - Ben Shapiro

  8890. "I am blessed to have Mom and Dad." - Kevin Eubanks

  8891. "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy." - Christopher Hitchens

  8892. "Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics." - Marvin Olasky

  8893. "I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!" - Nico Mirallegro

  8894. "Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain." - Robert A. Cook

  8895. "I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others." - Sudha Murty

  8896. "Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God." - Edwin Louis Cole

  8897. "I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name." - Mike Pence

  8898. "The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction." - Murray Rothbard

  8899. "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." - Satchel Paige

  8900. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  8901. "A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try." - Leonard Mlodinow

  8902. "The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center." - Ted Olson

  8903. "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." - Bo Bennett

  8904. "Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact." - Jens Martin Skibsted

  8905. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  8906. "I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  8907. "You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything." - Rose Namajunas

  8908. "Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding." - Joyce Carol Oates

  8909. "Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness." - Hannah More

  8910. "Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future." - Steve Jobs

  8911. "I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning." - Mary Kay Andrews

  8912. "As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood." - Thomas S. Monson

  8913. "I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free." - Robert Zemeckis

  8914. "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." - Ben Stein

  8915. "Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that." - Jennifer Coolidge

  8916. "I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner." - Norm Crosby

  8917. "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff." - Jonathan Davis

  8918. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  8919. "I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie." - Robert Osborne

  8920. "Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies." - George Whitefield

  8921. "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau

  8922. "My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'" - Joe Biden

  8923. "I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck." - Killer Mike

  8924. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  8925. "The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational." - Helen Sharman

  8926. "Oh, I'm up at 6:00 A.M. every morning because I have a lot to do. Plenty. I work out probably at, like, 8:00. I gotta eat at 6:00 so, therefore, I can workout at 8:00." - Pusha T

  8927. "When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'" - Annette Bening

  8928. "Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." - Thomas S. Monson

  8929. "If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull." - Jennifer Coolidge

  8930. "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page

  8931. "I have spent three and a half wonderful years at Arsenal, and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans." - Alexis Sanchez

  8932. "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Paul Valery

  8933. "Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual." - Paul Tournier

  8934. "What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen." - Harrison Ford

  8935. "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name." - Harriet Ann Jacobs

  8936. "I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time." - Paulo Coelho

  8937. "I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours." - Isabel Allende

  8938. "My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies." - Hannah Simone

  8939. "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." - Mahatma Gandhi

  8940. "It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?" - David Letterman

  8941. "I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before." - Austin Mahone

  8942. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  8943. "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." - Alice Walker

  8944. "Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head." - Ryan Lochte

  8945. "Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God." - Radhanath Swami

  8946. "God looks out for fools and babies." - Meshell Ndegeocello

  8947. "There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!" - Monica Johnson

  8948. "I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you." - Michelle Phan

  8949. "Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks." - Hilarie Burton

  8950. "I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners." - Matt Harvey

  8951. "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is." - Albert Camus

  8952. "There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

  8953. "Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace." - Carly Fiorina

  8954. "Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked." - Ellen G. White

  8955. "Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?" - Fulton J. Sheen

  8956. "I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life." - Amy Sedaris

  8957. "If I can be a positive Arab figure on such a large platform such as the WWE, and become some sort of an inspiration to an Arab kid in Lebanon, Egypt, or Jordan, then that's amazing." - Sami Zayn

  8958. "The best revenge in the world is success." - Suge Knight

  8959. "There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'" - Robert Osborne

  8960. "I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort." - Jewel

  8961. "I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  8962. "On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else." - George Clooney

  8963. "It never gets old seeing somebody do something positive for somebody else." - Xzibit

  8964. "My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people." - Ashleigh Murray

  8965. "As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers." - Juan Gabriel

  8966. "The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line." - Joe Garcia

  8967. "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." - Robert Foster Bennett

  8968. "True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life." - Maximillian Degenerez

  8969. "I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album." - Michael Spradlin

  8970. "When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God." - T. B. Joshua

  8971. "Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons." - Mohamed ElBaradei

  8972. "I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor." - Terry Crews

  8973. "I wouldn't say I had a hard childhood because my mom always made sure we was Gucci, you know what I mean. Growing up, she made sure we ain't have to want for nothing. She did what she had to do; she made her money, and we was always good." - Young M.A

  8974. "I rely on breakfast to give me a kickstart of energy in the morning, so I choose my foods accordingly." - Mikaela Shiffrin

  8975. "Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." - Freya Stark

  8976. "I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school." - Toyah Willcox

  8977. "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  8978. "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Arthur Ashe

  8979. "My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that." - Sam Harris

  8980. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau

  8981. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  8982. "Success - it's what you do with what you've got." - Woody Hayes

  8983. "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you." - Jesus Christ

  8984. "God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer." - Joyce Meyer

  8985. "My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always." - Taylor Swift

  8986. "I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday." - Stanley Druckenmiller

  8987. "As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute." - John Hall

  8988. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch

  8989. "I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path." - Taya Kyle

  8990. "Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting." - Bruce Dickinson

  8991. "I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it." - Justin Bieber

  8992. "Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!" - Ree Drummond

  8993. "Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish." - Akhil Sharma

  8994. "I keep saying this - and I keep putting it off because I get busy - but I keep saying one year I'm gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is." - Tony Rock

  8995. "God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly." - Ellen G. White

  8996. "I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person." - King Krule

  8997. "Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?" - G-Eazy

  8998. "I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me." - Laura Haddock

  8999. "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

  9000. "Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  9001. "I tell myself, every morning when I wake up, two things. Don't let the world down. Don't let our users down." - Eric Yuan

  9002. "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." - Jay Leno

  9003. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

  9004. "I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images." - Huey Newton

  9005. "I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes." - Greg Rutherford

  9006. "The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  9007. "We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well." - Momo Hirai

  9008. "In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not." - Freddie Freeman

  9009. "I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person." - Dolly Parton

  9010. "When a man's willing and eager the god's join in." - Aeschylus

  9011. "Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." - Corita Kent

  9012. "Neha is such a positive person and spreads such good vibes in all the lives she touches." - Angad Bedi

  9013. "My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts." - Frankie J. Alvarez

  9014. "When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic." - Jane Wagner

  9015. "The one thing that I know is that you win with good people." - Don Shula

  9016. "So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety." - Vinny Guadagnino

  9017. "In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son." - Charo

  9018. "Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what." - Shilpa Shinde

  9019. "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." - Earl Nightingale

  9020. "The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion." - Lord Hailsham

  9021. "As soon as I starting making YouTube videos, I received so much positive feedback from the online community and a demand for more content. As time went on, my filming schedule became more consistent, and it made sense to hire some help and upgrade my equipment." - Rosanna Pansino

  9022. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  9023. "I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season." - Joe Gebbia

  9024. "I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe." - Bat for Lashes

  9025. "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone." - Abu Bakar Bashir

  9026. "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust." - Barack Obama

  9027. "Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  9028. "I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief." - Anthony Hopkins

  9029. "People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base." - Lil Peep

  9030. "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself." - Robert Collier

  9031. "I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa." - Doug Jones

  9032. "I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is." - Nargis Fakhri

  9033. "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." - Anne Sullivan

  9034. "Religion is such a path with people." - Travis Fimmel

  9035. "Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise." - Patricia Richardson

  9036. "My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up." - Jake Tapper

  9037. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

  9038. "There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out." - Hillary Clinton

  9039. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  9040. "I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym." - Ehud Olmert

  9041. "Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion." - Ben Shapiro

  9042. "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday." - Eleanor Roosevelt

  9043. "It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento." - Joan Didion

  9044. "I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me." - Shemar Moore

  9045. "Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well." - R. Madhavan

  9046. "I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." - Roger Federer

  9047. "Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization." - Shirin Ebadi

  9048. "I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do." - Nina Agdal

  9049. "My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don't like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about." - Sophia Di Martino

  9050. "Only person who took me serious was my mom and my sister Rachael." - J.I.D

  9051. "Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best." - Marilu Henner

  9052. "Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand." - Joseph D. Pistone

  9053. "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding

  9054. "I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back." - Trisha Yearwood

  9055. "My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud." - Astro

  9056. "There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties." - Ronnie Coleman

  9057. "When I was doing the breakfast show, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go fishing before doing the show." - Chris Tarrant

  9058. "Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God." - James Weldon Johnson

  9059. "The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line." - Joe Garcia

  9060. "My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be." - August Alsina

  9061. "I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal." - Kevin Hart

  9062. "I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children." - John Cornforth

  9063. "But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross." - Bono

  9064. "Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone." - Melissa Etheridge

  9065. "My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it." - Joey Chestnut

  9066. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  9067. "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night." - Chanakya

  9068. "New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way." - Klaus Schwab

  9069. "I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat." - Ivanka Trump

  9070. "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights." - Jay London

  9071. "Religion is induced insanity." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  9072. "At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam, when we were attacked by pirates, he wet his pants." - Anh Do

  9073. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." - Steve Jobs

  9074. "God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant." - Tony Evans

  9075. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  9076. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  9077. "I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday." - Joanna Lumley

  9078. "Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are." - R. Madhavan

  9079. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes

  9080. "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed." - Emily Dickinson

  9081. "I love those who yearn for the impossible." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  9082. "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson

  9083. "I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu." - A. R. Rahman

  9084. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  9085. "Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good." - Reese Witherspoon

  9086. "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  9087. "Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals." - Paul J. Meyer

  9088. "Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day." - Dana White

  9089. "Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war." - Hans Kung

  9090. "Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player." - John McEnroe

  9091. "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

  9092. "I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece." - Travis Scott

  9093. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  9094. "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows." - Ambrose Bierce

  9095. "I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative." - Shonda Rhimes

  9096. "I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." - Audrey Hepburn

  9097. "Spirituality is everything for me because I've based my life on that: finding the positive out of everything and professing what I want and manifesting it in my mind." - Rotimi

  9098. "Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge." - Kevin Spacey

  9099. "If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." - Francis of Assisi

  9100. "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" - Robert Kennedy

  9101. "I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success." - Michael Landon

  9102. "Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?" - Sayed Kashua

  9103. "'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Lee Bermejo

  9104. "My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  9105. "I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism." - Mj Rodriguez

  9106. "It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes." - Catherine Oxenberg

  9107. "Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun." - Chief Seattle

  9108. "I wear green on Sunday because it's my mom's favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too." - Tony Finau

  9109. "Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of 'negative' experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring." - Dan Pena

  9110. "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all." - Alan Watts

  9111. "I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?" - Patti Davis

  9112. "I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town." - Scott Bakula

  9113. "God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks." - Clint Eastwood

  9114. "I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that." - Ivan Lendl

  9115. "One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad." - Jim DeMint

  9116. "I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room." - Dwayne Johnson

  9117. "I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role." - Landon Donovan

  9118. "I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise." - Jessica Savitch

  9119. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

  9120. "If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority." - Adam Grant

  9121. "There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur

  9122. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo

  9123. "I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me." - Gina Carano

  9124. "I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy." - Sondra Locke

  9125. "The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!" - Sherry Yard

  9126. "I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months." - August Wilson

  9127. "You don't have to be positive all the time." - Amy Purdy

  9128. "Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man." - Juicy J

  9129. "Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  9130. "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn

  9131. "Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer." - Anthony Hopkins

  9132. "We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way." - Andrew Lansley

  9133. "I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?" - Brian Jacques

  9134. "My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough." - Lance Armstrong

  9135. "I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists." - Prodigy

  9136. "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot

  9137. "I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed." - Evan Ross

  9138. "We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play." - Brian Sutton-Smith

  9139. "The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound." - Naveen Tewari

  9140. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  9141. "Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history." - Michael Specter

  9142. "Success is dependent on effort." - Sophocles

  9143. "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success." - James Dyson

  9144. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  9145. "At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam, when we were attacked by pirates, he wet his pants." - Anh Do

  9146. "Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year." - Joel Osteen

  9147. "I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith." - Sayani Gupta

  9148. "Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through." - Loni Love

  9149. "More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts." - Travis Bradberry

  9150. "I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that." - Gordon Lightfoot

  9151. "I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground." - Lionel Messi

  9152. "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness." - Anthony de Mello

  9153. "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me." - Rosie O'Donnell

  9154. "My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!" - Anne Sullivan

  9155. "God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing." - Reinhard Bonnke

  9156. "During our childhood, my sister and I had no birthday parties. We would take a packet of sweets to school and distribute it to our class-mates. That was it. We were not allowed to go to parties, either." - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  9157. "My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." - Phyllis Diller

  9158. "I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships." - Goldie Hawn

  9159. "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." - Soren Kierkegaard

  9160. "I am responsible only to God and history." - Francisco Franco

  9161. "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it." - Joan Lunden

  9162. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron

  9163. "Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas time. People play Mariah Carey Christmas songs... What else do you need in life?" - Milo Yiannopoulos

  9164. "Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold." - Robert Kiyosaki

  9165. "We have to keep calm and stick together; that's the key to success." - Sergio Ramos

  9166. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  9167. "Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well." - Brian F. O'Byrne

  9168. "Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us." - Judith Durham

  9169. "Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost." - Joyce Carol Oates

  9170. "The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays." - Blake Lively

  9171. "My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me." - Don Lemon

  9172. "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes." - Pope John Paul II

  9173. "You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body." - Shawn Achor

  9174. "Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power." - Julian Casablancas

  9175. "Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

  9176. "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." - Amy Sedaris

  9177. "Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect." - Kourtney Kardashian

  9178. "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity." - Cesar Chavez

  9179. "I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement." - Pete Rose

  9180. "Coconut oil is my best friend - I put it all over my body every night. And in the morning, I wash it off so I'm not all greasy." - Alexis Ren

  9181. "My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close." - Ann Voskamp

  9182. "The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do." - David Joseph Schwartz

  9183. "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." - Sylvester Stallone

  9184. "When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own." - Dan Levy

  9185. "For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success." - Kanye West

  9186. "A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church." - Emile Durkheim

  9187. "I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill." - Allen Ginsberg

  9188. "I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be." - Ranbir Kapoor

  9189. "I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway." - Alan Colmes

  9190. "I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear." - Mike Nichols

  9191. "I get bashful in the spotlight. Even at home or at a birthday party, I hate that stuff." - Julius Peppers

  9192. "The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island." - Meriwether Lewis

  9193. "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  9194. "Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God." - John Hines

  9195. "The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." - Ogden Nash

  9196. "The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection." - Kenneth Scott Latourette

  9197. "You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while." - Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  9198. "I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative." - Betty White

  9199. "Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes." - Voltaire

  9200. "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take." - Christopher Reeve

  9201. "Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe." - Marc Guggenheim

  9202. "Do cardio throughout the year at least three days a week for at least 30-40 minutes, whether it be first thing in the morning on an empty stomach or after a post-workout protein shake. Cardio won't kill your gains as much as you think; you'll see how much muscle you really have." - Phil Heath

  9203. "It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive." - Lil' Kim

  9204. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  9205. "Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down." - Scottie Pippen

  9206. "Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan." - Alexander Nix

  9207. "I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion." - Gene Robinson

  9208. "Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God." - John Hines

  9209. "I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot." - Zal Batmanglij

  9210. "Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life." - T. B. Joshua

  9211. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine

  9212. "To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field." - Edward de Bono

  9213. "I started working out with my mom in 4th grade. She used to take me to the track." - Jessie Pavelka

  9214. "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac

  9215. "Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers." - Brian McDermott

  9216. "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things." - Dwight L. Moody

  9217. "You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here." - Ram Dass

  9218. "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week." - John Sununu

  9219. "When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it." - Tracy Morgan

  9220. "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success." - Sigmund Freud

  9221. "In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year." - Julian Baggini

  9222. "Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed." - Rick Pitino

  9223. "It's kind of ironic that the only Super Bowl I've been to as a fan was when the Rams played the Titans. I was at that game. My grandpa, when he was still involved in the NFL, he got me tickets for my birthday." - Sean McVay

  9224. "Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  9225. "To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means." - Emanuel Swedenborg

  9226. "I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement." - Jim Harrison

  9227. "My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'" - Alicia Keys

  9228. "We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are." - Faith Hill

  9229. "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls." - Henry David Thoreau

  9230. "My dear friend, clear your mind of cant." - Samuel Johnson

  9231. "That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!" - Michael Strahan

  9232. "I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas." - Harry Melling

  9233. "You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me." - Athol Fugard

  9234. "A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I." - Jo Koy

  9235. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  9236. "Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in." - Marcelene Cox

  9237. "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Jeff Rich

  9238. "I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested." - Grace Slick

  9239. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  9240. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  9241. "One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics." - Lin-Manuel Miranda

  9242. "But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist." - Liam Neeson

  9243. "The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change." - Shawn Achor

  9244. "I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer." - Elif Batuman

  9245. "Typically, I spend a lot of time - mostly in the morning - kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I'm lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another." - David Means

  9246. "I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great." - Susie Wolff

  9247. "Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  9248. "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay

  9249. "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work." - Leslie Bibb

  9250. "Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world." - Cameron Russell

  9251. "Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling." - Sarah Parcak

  9252. "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Billy Graham

  9253. "I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will." - Joan of Arc

  9254. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  9255. "Couldn't start the morning without caffeine." - Ginnifer Goodwin

  9256. "My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache." - Brian Greene

  9257. "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." - Maya Angelou

  9258. "To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." - Tony Dorsett

  9259. "A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine." - Steven Biko

  9260. "I don't set up screenings. I can barely plan my kid's birthday party." - Becky Albertalli

  9261. "I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion." - Tom Araya

  9262. "I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me." - Johnny Mathis

  9263. "When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That's why I fight." - Gennady Golovkin

  9264. "I want to come across as a positive person." - Greta Scacchi

  9265. "Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth." - Anthony Carmona

  9266. "'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give." - Jeremih

  9267. "Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person." - Usain Bolt

  9268. "Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race." - Tim Bishop

  9269. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  9270. "The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover." - Karen Salmansohn

  9271. "Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced." - Ethel Merman

  9272. "Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!" - Donna Karan

  9273. "In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion." - Kofi Annan

  9274. "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins

  9275. "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden

  9276. "I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman." - Jami Attenberg

  9277. "I've been asking my partner for a dog for a while and she kept saying no. She was obviously keeping it for a birthday surprise, and when I came home from Rotherham, Hugo was sat on the sofa waiting for me. It was a really nice surprise." - Daniel James

  9278. "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff." - Sojourner Truth

  9279. "One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans." - Roger Taylor

  9280. "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant

  9281. "God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease." - Bernie Siegel

  9282. "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  9283. "I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me." - Keanu Reeves

  9284. "Let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette

  9285. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  9286. "Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!" - Charlamagne tha God

  9287. "If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success." - Shahid Khan

  9288. "Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself." - Gretchen Carlson

  9289. "As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props." - Nivin Pauly

  9290. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." - Niccolo Machiavelli

  9291. "I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?" - Sunil Yapa

  9292. "I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive." - Aly Raisman

  9293. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  9294. "On fight day, I usually have peanut butter and porridge in the morning; bananas and a nice fruit salad. Then, as the day goes on, I'll have some carbs." - Jimi Manuwa

  9295. "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten

  9296. "All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you." - Lady Gaga

  9297. "When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas." - Dee Rees

  9298. "I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive." - Wyclef Jean

  9299. "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus

  9300. "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." - Aisha Tyler

  9301. "Nothing fails like success." - Lincoln Steffens

  9302. "There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles

  9303. "I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez." - Leila Slimani

  9304. "Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well." - Tom Rath

  9305. "We are never defeated unless we give up on God." - Ronald Reagan

  9306. "I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid." - Nick Diaz

  9307. "I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid." - Mike Shinoda

  9308. "There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work." - Tori Spelling

  9309. "Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion." - Sri Chinmoy

  9310. "Spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the men and women who serve our country abroad is a reminder of the sacrifices many make to serve our country." - Conor Lamb

  9311. "Neck-down comedy was no longer valid after the 1980s alternative comedy revolution. Everything became about the cerebral. And with that came positive things - it helped get rid of some of the sexism and homophobia - but it also meant a lot of physical comedy was lost." - Lee Mack

  9312. "Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom." - Jenny Zhang

  9313. "What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being." - David Gregory

  9314. "A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live." - Elizabeth Edwards

  9315. "I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers." - Charles Barkley

  9316. "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." - H. L. Mencken

  9317. "I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom." - Kerry Kennedy

  9318. "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours." - Busy Philipps

  9319. "The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images." - John Updike

  9320. "When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'" - Hunter Hayes

  9321. "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians." - Gary North

  9322. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" - Muhammad Ali

  9323. "God gave me everything I have." - Ben Harney

  9324. "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." - Helen Keller

  9325. "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." - Corrie Ten Boom

  9326. "I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes." - Jake Shears

  9327. "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning." - King Solomon

  9328. "As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle." - Beth Ditto

  9329. "You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive." - Gail Kelly

  9330. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  9331. "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?" - Andrea Jung

  9332. "When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday." - Charli XCX

  9333. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  9334. "I do kind of marvel at my journey. But at the same time, I look back at a lot of the steps, and maybe not every step, but a lot of the steps, and since I was 12 or 13, I look at the people who helped me and the moments that were inspirational to me, and you can recall what my mindset and what my make-up was at that time to try and be the best." - Chris Bosh

  9335. "My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning." - Mary Quant

  9336. "I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together." - Queen Elizabeth II

  9337. "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." - Jean Kerr

  9338. "I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay." - Hal Ashby

  9339. "My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way." - Christen Press

  9340. "I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ." - Jan Hus

  9341. "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

  9342. "Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level." - Jami Gertz

  9343. "Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion." - Ben Shapiro

  9344. "You're a song written by the hands of God." - Shakira

  9345. "I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands." - Ariel Gore

  9346. "On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous." - James Callis

  9347. "Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print." - Dave Barry

  9348. "God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion." - Bono

  9349. "Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress." - Donovan

  9350. "I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion." - John F. Kelly

  9351. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley

  9352. "However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts." - John Calvin

  9353. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  9354. "God is the perfect poet." - Robert Browning

  9355. "I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success." - Mary Berry

  9356. "When you in the positive light and good space, do everything to keep it that way and be real careful what you say and how you move because your world can come crashing down on you." - Tee Grizzley

  9357. "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are." - Billy Graham

  9358. "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." - Saint Augustine

  9359. "Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals." - Amy Morin

  9360. "I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him." - Vince Vaughn

  9361. "I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths." - Gina Rodriguez

  9362. "Typically, I spend a lot of time - mostly in the morning - kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I'm lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another." - David Means

  9363. "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music." - Lenny Kravitz

  9364. "To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom." - Rowan Atkinson

  9365. "Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper." - Charles Peguy

  9366. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  9367. "I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success." - Lil Wayne

  9368. "I think my mom put me in tap classes when I was three, which I never pursued. I don't know how to tap. Then we moved to Portugal when I was five, and, I think, she put me in ballet classes immediately. Then I was expelled for being too restless - I am too high energy - and was told I could go do rhythm gymnastics." - Daniela Ruah

  9369. "I bought my mom a car for Christmas. I don't even own my own car." - Perez Hilton

  9370. "Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have." - Rod Lurie

  9371. "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad." - Thomas Paine

  9372. "People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Robert Eggers

  9373. "For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head." - Brittany Snow

  9374. "I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude." - Yani Tseng

  9375. "Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better." - Tim Howard

  9376. "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours." - Busy Philipps

  9377. "Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks." - Regina Brett

  9378. "I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up." - Demi Lovato

  9379. "The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning." - Samuel Johnson

  9380. "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." - Pablo Picasso

  9381. "If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man." - Derrick Henry

  9382. "My mom was a rock 'n' roll mom." - Maria Brink

  9383. "The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift." - Chris Wood

  9384. "Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe." - Zooey Deschanel

  9385. "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." - Francis Quarles

  9386. "Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last." - Lawrence Welk

  9387. "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" - Jean Cocteau

  9388. "My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded." - Caitlyn Jenner

  9389. "It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late." - Pearl S. Buck

  9390. "One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'" - Paul Dini

  9391. "Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods." - Jay-Z

  9392. "The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain." - Shawn Achor

  9393. "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." - George Edward Woodberry

  9394. "My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad." - Mookie Betts

  9395. "My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year." - Thomas S. Monson

  9396. "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people." - Stevie Nicks

  9397. "Trust in God - she will provide." - Emmeline Pankhurst

  9398. "Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited." - Gottfried Leibniz

  9399. "When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'" - Hunter Hayes

  9400. "My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations." - Della Reese

  9401. "As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind." - John Rampton

  9402. "My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age." - Toby Keith

  9403. "I'm African-American. I'd rather follow an African religion. That's my heritage." - 21 Savage

  9404. "The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift." - Chris Wood

  9405. "I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't." - Peter Dinklage

  9406. "God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks." - Clint Eastwood

  9407. "Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon." - John C. Reilly

  9408. "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." - Arnold Palmer

  9409. "Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting." - Steve Carell

  9410. "There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love." - Wayne Dyer

  9411. "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." - Bobby Moynihan

  9412. "I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life." - Scott Eastwood

  9413. "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken

  9414. "We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  9415. "At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos." - Tika Sumpter

  9416. "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  9417. "Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage." - Natasha Trethewey

  9418. "Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook." - Michael Dirda

  9419. "We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it." - Brie Larson

  9420. "I get up in the morning looking for an adventure." - George Foreman

  9421. "God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing." - Reinhard Bonnke

  9422. "'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video." - Megan Nicole

  9423. "It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment." - Honore de Balzac

  9424. "That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle." - Linus Torvalds

  9425. "South Park started as a little video Christmas card." - Joel Hodgson

  9426. "I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion." - Gene Robinson

  9427. "We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace." - Stanley Hauerwas

  9428. "Finding the right amp can be a process, especially when you're young and just starting out. When I was a kid, I had to rely on whatever I got for Christmas. Then my mom got me a Peavey VTM 120. I used that for a few years." - Jim Root

  9429. "For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn't find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!" - Ron Howard

  9430. "Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home." - Arjun Kapoor

  9431. "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out." - Michael Korda

  9432. "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." - David Hume

  9433. "I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap." - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  9434. "My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." - Phyllis Diller

  9435. "At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business." - Susan Wojcicki

  9436. "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." - Sam Ewing

  9437. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  9438. "Somewhere it was written that October 18th is my birthday, and some people flew to Georgia to wish me! They came to my college, spoke to my professor, found out where I lived, and they were at my doorstep! I was shocked!" - Sai Pallavi

  9439. "I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards." - Paul O'Grady

  9440. "I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks." - Ekta Kapoor

  9441. "I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  9442. "Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy." - Franz Werfel

  9443. "I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on." - Sam Heughan

  9444. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

  9445. "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough." - Richard M. DeVos

  9446. "From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution." - Christina Milian

  9447. "I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." - Alan Hovhaness

  9448. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton

  9449. "Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving." - Joseph Auslander

  9450. "My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else." - Martin Scorsese

  9451. "Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba

  9452. "The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light." - Charles Spurgeon

  9453. "Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection." - Trish Regan

  9454. "My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me." - Tim Howard

  9455. "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male." - Julia Child

  9456. "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." - Deepika Padukone

  9457. "I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!" - Kirsten Prout

  9458. "If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what." - John Lydon

  9459. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success." - George Kaiser

  9460. "I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday." - Yara Shahidi

  9461. "Act like you expect to get into the end zone." - Christopher Morley

  9462. "I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see." - Dick Cheney

  9463. "There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing." - Elon Musk

  9464. "Success is based on your perspective." - CM Punk

  9465. "I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah." - Tracee Ellis Ross

  9466. "There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus." - Monica Johnson

  9467. "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

  9468. "When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?" - Deborah Tannen

  9469. "When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?" - Deborah Tannen

  9470. "My mornings are really about being with my children, so I tend to lay out my outfit the night before when my children are asleep so I can have a quick turnaround time in the morning." - Ivanka Trump

  9471. "I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away." - Becky Lynch

  9472. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." - Jesus Christ

  9473. "Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief." - Franz Schubert

  9474. "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." - Soren Kierkegaard

  9475. "This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly." - Alesha Dixon

  9476. "When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch - Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan." - Zion Williamson

  9477. "I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day." - John Searles

  9478. "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us." - Allyson Felix

  9479. "My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures." - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  9480. "I am no mother, and I won't be one." - Brigitte Bardot

  9481. "Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning." - Virat Kohli

  9482. "If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized your religion." - Linda Sarsour

  9483. "I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives." - Brit Marling

  9484. "I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I." - Abbi Jacobson

  9485. "If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive." - Mark Goulston

  9486. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen

  9487. "The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin." - Ellen G. White

  9488. "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." - Thomas Merton

  9489. "The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology." - John Gresham Machen

  9490. "I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays." - Bryson Tiller

  9491. "The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount." - B. F. Skinner

  9492. "Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff." - Lewis Black

  9493. "An honest man's the noblest work of God." - Alexander Pope

  9494. "With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done." - Chris Coleman

  9495. "There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'" - Tom Sturridge

  9496. "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face." - Ronald Reagan

  9497. "One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all." - Richard Dawkins

  9498. "My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke." - Jorge Masvidal

  9499. "God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful." - Henri Nouwen

  9500. "My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity." - Wayne Dyer

  9501. "Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball." - Jeff Van Gundy

  9502. "I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage." - Fiona Apple

  9503. "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress." - Kelly Clarkson

  9504. "I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need." - Renata Tebaldi

  9505. "I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living." - William Gibson

  9506. "Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I've experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and if you're in the right neighbourhood, every house is decorated with spooky ghosts, spider webs, and jack-o-lanterns." - Rhys Darby

  9507. "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way." - Joel Osteen

  9508. "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody." - Mojo Nixon

  9509. "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." - William Hazlitt

  9510. "I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it." - Mireille Enos

  9511. "As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom." - Mark Wahlberg

  9512. "For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house." - Kevin Jonas

  9513. "Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." - Robert Green Ingersoll

  9514. "Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion." - Joko Widodo

  9515. "Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms." - Damien Hirst

  9516. "You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

  9517. "It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas." - Ian Watson

  9518. "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

  9519. "Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off." - Gore Vidal

  9520. "I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life." - Thierry Mugler

  9521. "Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious." - William Feather

  9522. "Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement." - Annie Lennox

  9523. "To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world." - Kat Graham

  9524. "If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble." - Pope Francis

  9525. "'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show." - Jewel Staite

  9526. "The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!" - Max Stirner

  9527. "It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento." - Joan Didion

  9528. "People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers." - Marc Andreessen

  9529. "I can't resist South Indian cuisine, particularly what is prepared at home. My mom is my favourite cook. She can cook a variety of cuisines. I savour her cooking at home, and she's undoubtedly the best." - Deepika Padukone

  9530. "I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety." - Linda Lael Miller

  9531. "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not." - James Russell Lowell

  9532. "The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'" - Emma McLaughlin

  9533. "Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness." - Jonathan Sacks

  9534. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe

  9535. "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do." - Diana Lopez

  9536. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." - Tommy Douglas

  9537. "I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde." - Rita Ora

  9538. "I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that." - Thomas Brodie-Sangster

  9539. "Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit." - John Grisham

  9540. "Our house was cluttered with little charms, thoughtfully placed. There were all kinds of little things going on. Like, my mom made a lampshade out of a picture of our family, but if you look closely, there's a baby Jesus that she cut up and put just above all of us." - Perfume Genius

  9541. "Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks." - Stephen Henderson

  9542. "I am so blessed. I have an incredible wife, children I adore; I'm a very happy man. I've got a great mom and dad and brothers and sisters and stuff, so I've always been happy. And I never stop smiling." - Michael Kelly

  9543. "Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret." - Don Miguel Ruiz

  9544. "God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners." - William Wilberforce

  9545. "I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive." - Pitbull

  9546. "The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard." - Glennon Doyle Melton

  9547. "It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God." - Michael Leunig

  9548. "Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?" - Philip Rosenthal

  9549. "I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow." - Ice Cube

  9550. "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." - Arthur C. Clarke

  9551. "I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?" - Jim Capaldi

  9552. "Typically, I spend a lot of time - mostly in the morning - kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I'm lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another." - David Means

  9553. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  9554. "Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world." - Charlie Sykes

  9555. "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice." - Jules Renard

  9556. "I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio." - Charles Leclerc

  9557. "Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over." - Shannon Bream

  9558. "Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday." - Tobin Bell

  9559. "I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday." - Alan J. Heeger

  9560. "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." - Amelia Barr

  9561. "Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude." - Kirsten Sweetland

  9562. "Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else." - Kristin Armstrong

  9563. "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He." - Friedrich Nietzsche

  9564. "On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting." - Jimmy White

  9565. "I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ." - Jan Hus

  9566. "My life was changed in one breath from God." - Donna Summer

  9567. "Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past." - Homaro Cantu

  9568. "If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals." - Lou Holtz

  9569. "Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness." - Alphonsus Liguori

  9570. "I believe God will make a way." - Lauryn Hill

  9571. "The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life." - Kelley O'Hara

  9572. "The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change." - Shawn Achor

  9573. "Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  9574. "I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud." - Jessie Reyez

  9575. "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." - Steve Harvey

  9576. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

  9577. "It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress." - Jennifer Garner

  9578. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  9579. "Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way." - Norman Geisler

  9580. "I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion." - Charles Spurgeon

  9581. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire

  9582. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  9583. "I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time." - Garrison Keillor

  9584. "After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'" - Ashley Bell

  9585. "I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it." - Deepak Chopra

  9586. "There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you." - Giorgio Armani

  9587. "YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy." - Lindsey Stirling

  9588. "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts." - Tom Brady

  9589. "People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'" - Gallant

  9590. "Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up." - Ayanna Pressley

  9591. "Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie." - Srikumar Rao

  9592. "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther

  9593. "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through." - Eddie Rickenbacker

  9594. "I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first." - Gemma Collins

  9595. "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God." - Euclid

  9596. "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - Satchel Paige

  9597. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  9598. "I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits." - Ray Allen

  9599. "It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece." - Big Sean

  9600. "Surfing is my religion, if I have one." - Kelly Slater

  9601. "The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things." - Thomas S. Monson

  9602. "When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story." - Prince Royce

  9603. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  9604. "One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking." - Julian Baggini

  9605. "I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others." - Sudha Murty

  9606. "Less tension in the Middle East is always a positive, and any drop in gas prices will essentially act as a tax break for consumers going into the holiday shopping season." - Jeff Duncan

  9607. "Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion." - Tom T. Hall

  9608. "Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him." - Alphonsus Liguori

  9609. "I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me." - Carol Burnett

  9610. "After all, God is God because he remembers." - Elie Wiesel

  9611. "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell

  9612. "I surrounded myself with very positive people who only wanted the best for me. I loved high school as a whole. I consider myself really lucky." - Gigi Gorgeous

  9613. "That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children." - Chelsea Clinton

  9614. "I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album." - Lee Ritenour

  9615. "You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side." - Patrick Mahomes

  9616. "I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah." - Jesse Eisenberg

  9617. "There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things." - Saint Basil

  9618. "Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am." - Sasha Grey

  9619. "I'm not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I'm a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to." - Emily Wickersham

  9620. "My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker." - Garry Hynes

  9621. "Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights." - Chris Young

  9622. "I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated." - Christian Louboutin

  9623. "The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it." - Minna Antrim

  9624. "My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook." - Alex Guarnaschelli

  9625. "I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well." - Alan Greenspan

  9626. "Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world." - Amanda Lindhout

  9627. "I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you." - Snoh Aalegra

  9628. "Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options." - Sharon Salzberg

  9629. "I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person." - Zoe Quinn

  9630. "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff." - Jonathan Davis

  9631. "When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt." - Alex Bregman

  9632. "Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn't get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it." - Claudette Colvin

  9633. "Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society." - Sonam Kapoor

  9634. "Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player." - John McEnroe

  9635. "No star is bigger than the success of a film." - Prabhas

  9636. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  9637. "We've all sort of been there: It's coming on Christmas, all that preparation is going on, and you just want to escape. You don't want to buy into it. It's a time of year that brings up a lot of memories for people, and if you're missing somebody, it's hardest at this time of year." - Michael Ball

  9638. "Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better." - Zach Johnson

  9639. "I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing." - Casey Kasem

  9640. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

  9641. "My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this." - Jeff Foxworthy

  9642. "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true." - Thomas Paine

  9643. "The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful." - Theodore Melfi

  9644. "Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know." - Emile Hirsch

  9645. "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." - Louis Kronenberger

  9646. "I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation." - Joel Osteen

  9647. "People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked." - Charlamagne tha God

  9648. "I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning." - Nikki Sixx

  9649. "What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area." - G-Eazy

  9650. "Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy." - Shawn Achor

  9651. "I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that goes in behind the scenes. That might mean not seeing your family or missing your mother's birthday; many players are so focused that they miss the birth of their children." - Alexis Sanchez

  9652. "I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization." - Stephen Baldwin

  9653. "From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." - Aeschylus

  9654. "I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy." - Deshaun Watson

  9655. "God can only do for you what He can do through you." - Eric Butterworth

  9656. "When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever." - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  9657. "I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening." - Daryl Hannah

  9658. "To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry." - John Tesh

  9659. "With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood." - Isadora Duncan

  9660. "My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom." - Donna Karan

  9661. "I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas." - Logan Mankins

  9662. "When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it." - Mary-Kate Olsen

  9663. "Thank God I'm an atheist." - Luis Bunuel

  9664. "The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies." - Imre Lakatos

  9665. "I used to work at a hotel. I was the order-taker for room service. My mom worked at the hotel as an accountant." - Sasha Banks

  9666. "You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister." - Esha Gupta

  9667. "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God." - Armstrong Williams

  9668. "My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing." - David Ortiz

  9669. "You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie." - Lydia Lunch

  9670. "I found myself in a meeting on my 13th birthday, which I really had no idea the enormity of, but I was in a meeting with the CEO of Atlantic Records, who sort of signed me right then and there as I was playing guitar for him." - Cody Simpson

  9671. "My mom loves saris, and when I was a child, she told me 'a girl looks good in an Indian traditional outfit.' So, somehow it stayed in my head, and I really enjoy Indian wear." - Urvashi Rautela

  9672. "My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't." - LP

  9673. "Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles." - Will Carling

  9674. "My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!" - Laurie Hernandez

  9675. "I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods." - Lemmy

  9676. "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang

  9677. "I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least." - Lester Holt

  9678. "Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way." - Charli D'Amelio

  9679. "I've been asking my partner for a dog for a while and she kept saying no. She was obviously keeping it for a birthday surprise, and when I came home from Rotherham, Hugo was sat on the sofa waiting for me. It was a really nice surprise." - Daniel James

  9680. "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'" - Phillips Brooks

  9681. "Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success." - Taylor Lautner

  9682. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  9683. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  9684. "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand." - Howard Cosell

  9685. "I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person." - Chrissy Teigen

  9686. "I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that." - Cote de Pablo

  9687. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  9688. "I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball." - Harvey Mason, Jr.

  9689. "Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup." - Azar Nafisi

  9690. "I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!" - Lily Aldridge

  9691. "I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that." - El DeBarge

  9692. "My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always." - Taylor Swift

  9693. "What I strive for is that everywhere I go, I leave a positive impact." - Clarence Seedorf

  9694. "I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success." - Lil Wayne

  9695. "If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum." - Romola Garai

  9696. "My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside." - David Hasselhoff

  9697. "Early this morning, I signed my death warrant." - Michael Collins

  9698. "I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays." - Parineeti Chopra

  9699. "I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture." - Miranda Kerr

  9700. "Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week." - Harley Pasternak

  9701. "I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem." - Mike Yaconelli

  9702. "I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years." - Dan Jenkins

  9703. "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

  9704. "Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs." - Michael Leunig

  9705. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  9706. "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." - Wendell Phillips

  9707. "The genius of Rachel Dolezal's transracial achievement is that it has nearly limitless applications. Rachel is taking 'the power of positive thinking' to a whole new level." - Tom Tancredo

  9708. "I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination." - Jewell Parker Rhodes

  9709. "I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing." - Paige VanZant

  9710. "When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school." - Tammy Duckworth

  9711. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  9712. "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  9713. "I always see everything in a positive light." - Karishma Tanna

  9714. "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person." - R. Kelly

  9715. "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision." - Ho Chi Minh

  9716. "When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true." - Willard Scott

  9717. "A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does." - Melania Trump

  9718. "I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble." - Gabriel Iglesias

  9719. "My mom and grandma always told me: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's something everyone needs to be more conscious about. Putting more positive energy out into the world would be so beneficial." - Madison Keys

  9720. "After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question." - Stephen Harper

  9721. "God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world." - Arthur Peacocke

  9722. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere

  9723. "Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them." - Richard G. Scott

  9724. "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

  9725. "I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity." - Magic Johnson

  9726. "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer." - Martin Luther

  9727. "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

  9728. "I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live." - Kanye West

  9729. "I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be." - Bow Wow

  9730. "Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world." - Ban Ki-moon

  9731. "I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas." - Dan Jenkins

  9732. "You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters." - John Burns

  9733. "Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught." - Eric Ries

  9734. "There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration." - Boris Vallejo

  9735. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

  9736. "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." - Colin Powell

  9737. "I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom." - Carol Leifer

  9738. "Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc." - Renee Fleming

  9739. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  9740. "Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish." - Octavia Butler

  9741. "When I was younger, it's like, 'Mom works. Normal adult stuff.' But you mature and start to look at it differently. I watched my mom struggle. She comes home tired. She doesn't want to do anything. As I got older, I started thinking, 'My mom doesn't deserve this.' My whole devotion became to get my mom out of that trailer." - Bam Adebayo

  9742. "The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created." - Alex Tabarrok

  9743. "Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator." - Erykah Badu

  9744. "The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time." - Piet Mondrian

  9745. "I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn." - Joanna Lumley

  9746. "I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know." - Marian McPartland

  9747. "Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials." - Dan Savage

  9748. "I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes." - Leigh Lezark

  9749. "Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief." - Franz Schubert

  9750. "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion." - William Blake

  9751. "There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out." - Jay Samit

  9752. "As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  9753. "We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases." - George M. Church

  9754. "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." - James Madison

  9755. "Nothing recedes like success." - Walter Winchell

  9756. "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

  9757. "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction." - Sholom Aleichem

  9758. "Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo." - Nicole Appleton

  9759. "The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology." - John Gresham Machen

  9760. "Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?" - Sayed Kashua

  9761. "My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old." - Mike Shinoda

  9762. "For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do." - Jean-Georges Vongerichten

  9763. "People assume that they will retire at 60 and die when they are 70. If you can think positive, live a healthy life, listen to your body and follow a regime, then you can live for 100 years, healthy and happy." - Hema Malini

  9764. "If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?" - Andrew Young

  9765. "I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside." - Tommy Hilfiger

  9766. "I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it." - B. D. Wong

  9767. "Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success." - Dwayne Johnson

  9768. "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." - James A. Michener

  9769. "I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year." - David Friedman

  9770. "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." - John Keats

  9771. "It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going." - Dan Auerbach

  9772. "Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians." - M. Stanton Evans

  9773. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  9774. "Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite." - Joe Green

  9775. "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself." - Celine Dion

  9776. "For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel." - Martin Luther

  9777. "I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference." - Linus Torvalds

  9778. "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it." - Elie Wiesel

  9779. "I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions." - Jenna Bush

  9780. "Me and my girlfriend don't have any family in Ipswich, so we were thinking of what we could do to fill our time on Christmas Day. We thought about feeding the homeless and we phoned up the church that we eventually went to and asked if we could help." - Tyrone Mings

  9781. "My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it." - Omari Hardwick

  9782. "Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free." - Taraji P. Henson

  9783. "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase

  9784. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli

  9785. "When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'" - Oswald Chambers

  9786. "I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way." - Antonio Banderas

  9787. "Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement." - Mo Farah

  9788. "My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me." - Zion Williamson

  9789. "God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  9790. "There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is." - Jesse Ventura

  9791. "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead." - William Law

  9792. "Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence." - Jules Feiffer

  9793. "After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts." - Tom Brady

  9794. "Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." - Freya Stark

  9795. "I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas." - Dan Brown

  9796. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion." - Robert Runcie

  9797. "I have two great examples of a father. My dad is honestly my hero and sets the bar high for how a man should treat a woman. My stepmother is a caring, genuine and supportive woman. My mom is a spunky strong woman with a huge heart. And my sister is just a pure angel. There is a lot of love in my family." - Kaitlyn Bristowe

  9798. "We usually have a beautiful, sparkling Christmas tree and my dad reads us 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' in front of the fire and it's all very cozy. Then we pack up and head to meet my extended family, where we live out our yearly tradition of everyone gifting everyone underwear in their stockings." - Annie Murphy

  9799. "If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'" - Tom Cruise

  9800. "Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion." - Ernie Harwell

  9801. "Honestly, sometimes, it takes a negative to bring about a positive." - Kirstin Maldonado

  9802. "Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  9803. "When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work." - Ryan Tedder

  9804. "If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?" - Al Jourgensen

  9805. "I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ." - Ignatius of Antioch

  9806. "I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do." - Rosalind Wiseman

  9807. "One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'" - Julie Burchill

  9808. "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" - Logan Pearsall Smith

  9809. "I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too." - Robert Trujillo

  9810. "If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?" - Maeve Binchy

  9811. "On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting." - Jimmy White

  9812. "My Mom and my Pops liked Tupac a lot." - NLE Choppa

  9813. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." - Walt Whitman

  9814. "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  9815. "A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of." - Walter Kirn

  9816. "Usually my Easter reading consists of 'Who Moved the Stone?,' which gets dusted off annually and read, often in one sitting, to remind me of the miracle of redemption, resurrection and life after death." - Ann Widdecombe

  9817. "I remember my father used to wake up at 4 A.M. He woke me up as well. We would leave home together, he was going to work and I continued my walk to catch the bus. I had my training session with Sao Paulo in the morning. I had to take two buses to the point I could take the club bus." - Ederson

  9818. "People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed." - Lee Greenwood

  9819. "Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution." - Robin S. Sharma

  9820. "My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent." - Estelle

  9821. "Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about." - Douglas Brinkley

  9822. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

  9823. "Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining." - Anupam Kher

  9824. "I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested." - Grace Slick

  9825. "Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels." - Thomas Traherne

  9826. "Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!" - Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  9827. "I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast." - Liz Phair

  9828. "Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love." - Lucinda Franks

  9829. "Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive." - Leah LaBelle

  9830. "Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'" - Elif Batuman

  9831. "Thank God I'm an atheist." - Luis Bunuel

  9832. "When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good." - Lindsey Vonn

  9833. "When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you." - Tammy Duckworth

  9834. "I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully." - Alan Lightman

  9835. "Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something." - Morihei Ueshiba

  9836. "If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself." - Niklas Zennstrom

  9837. "Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it." - Shah Rukh Khan

  9838. "My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles." - Christie Brinkley

  9839. "If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe." - Guru Nanak

  9840. "Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house." - Malik Yoba

  9841. "I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun." - Max Lucado

  9842. "Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing." - Stevie Ray Vaughan

  9843. "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel." - Augustus Hare

  9844. "What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's not for that, but there was at least something that got through that had some content that was sensible and positive, not just hooky junk-food rap." - Xzibit

  9845. "I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning." - Mario Cantone

  9846. "The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore." - Cyril Connolly

  9847. "Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium." - Michael J. Knowles

  9848. "The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm." - George Osborne

  9849. "When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches." - Julian Edelman

  9850. "I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." - Faith Hill

  9851. "Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that." - Jennifer Coolidge

  9852. "I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions." - Stephen Dobyns

  9853. "My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it." - Joey Chestnut

  9854. "It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer." - Orison Swett Marden

  9855. "Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be." - Joel Osteen

  9856. "My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be." - August Alsina

  9857. "The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other." - Del Close

  9858. "The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other." - Del Close

  9859. "Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them." - Alison Sweeney

  9860. "Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in." - Indya Moore

  9861. "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that." - Diane Kruger

  9862. "I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets." - Mary Kay Andrews

  9863. "I love all things Christmas." - Samantha Barks

  9864. "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith

  9865. "I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results." - LL Cool J

  9866. "We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way." - Andrew Lansley

  9867. "I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world." - Angelina Jolie

  9868. "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion." - Scott Adams

  9869. "The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability." - Simon Mainwaring

  9870. "When I wake up in the morning, do I think I'm a role model? Yes. I'm not trying to have a pristine image, because a real role model shows you to the good and ugly." - KRS-One

  9871. "Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind." - Steven Crowder

  9872. "The groves were God's first temples." - William C. Bryant

  9873. "I have a very good relation with rain. When I was born in Orissa, there were severe floods. Even now it rains on my birthday." - Varun Sandesh

  9874. "People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'" - Twyla Tharp

  9875. "What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming." - Will Speck

  9876. "Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion." - Heinrich Heine

  9877. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell

  9878. "Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution." - Robin S. Sharma

  9879. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

  9880. "The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child." - Larry Elder

  9881. "Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago." - Kara Swisher

  9882. "On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers." - Bobby Ghosh

  9883. "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." - Lydia M. Child

  9884. "No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." - Henry Kissinger

  9885. "My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  9886. "Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny." - Naomi Wolf

  9887. "How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often. But I speak to my mum very regularly and have a close relationship with my parents." - Will Poulter

  9888. "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." - Mary C. Jones

  9889. "When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom." - Myles Munroe

  9890. "My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am." - Jay DeMarcus

  9891. "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it." - Demetri Martin

  9892. "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion." - Scott Adams

  9893. "When I wake up in the morning, I like to refresh myself and put some tonic on - one with vitamin C - and then an oxygen cream with vitamins A, C, and E. That's very important to me so that my skin will stay moisturized throughout the day." - Melania Trump

  9894. "Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret." - Don Miguel Ruiz

  9895. "There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved." - Dean Devlin

  9896. "Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself." - Caroline Ghosn

  9897. "God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers." - DeMarcus Cousins

  9898. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act." - Robert Jackson

  9899. "You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier." - Bill Callahan

  9900. "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." - Colin Powell

  9901. "If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?" - Marc Wallice

  9902. "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  9903. "The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted." - Olivia Williams

  9904. "No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  9905. "I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour." - Donatella Versace

  9906. "Success unshared is failure." - John Paul DeJoria

  9907. "Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants." - P. J. O'Rourke

  9908. "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both." - Shia LaBeouf

  9909. "And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye." - Lewis Black

  9910. "I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name." - Mike Pence

  9911. "I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am." - Terry Wogan

  9912. "When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards." - Isabella Rossellini

  9913. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  9914. "According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time." - Grazia Deledda

  9915. "A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have." - Dwight L. Moody

  9916. "I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work." - Akkineni Nagarjuna

  9917. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  9918. "I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world." - Angela Ahrendts

  9919. "I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad." - Jimmy Smits

  9920. "I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something." - Andy Biersack

  9921. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

  9922. "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan

  9923. "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." - Dick Gregory

  9924. "My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that." - Gemma Arterton

  9925. "'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing." - Kris Kristofferson

  9926. "I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write." - Carmen Agra Deedy

  9927. "On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic." - Maisie Williams

  9928. "Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism." - Jeb Bush

  9929. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." - Rosa Parks

  9930. "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed." - Herman Cain

  9931. "I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in the morning collecting intelligence on threats to the Homeland." - Will Hurd

  9932. "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." - Martin Luther

  9933. "One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'" - Paul Dini

  9934. "My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus." - Mandy Patinkin

  9935. "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." - Ulysses S. Grant

  9936. "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  9937. "And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see." - Donald Cargill

  9938. "You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves." - Glenn McGrath

  9939. "As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle." - Taboo

  9940. "What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive." - Jay Alan Sekulow

  9941. "His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do." - Maurice Ashley

  9942. "I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale." - Robert H. Schuller

  9943. "Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor." - Sara Gilbert

  9944. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele

  9945. "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Bobby Unser

  9946. "The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes." - Os Guinness

  9947. "I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down." - Mo Rocca

  9948. "It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service." - Saint Ignatius

  9949. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  9950. "These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  9951. "I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them." - Channing Tatum

  9952. "My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work." - Stephanie Szostak

  9953. "Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be." - Jocko Willink

  9954. "I don't set up screenings. I can barely plan my kid's birthday party." - Becky Albertalli

  9955. "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star." - Sinclair Lewis

  9956. "I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents." - Mariah Carey

  9957. "Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions." - Nikolai Gogol

  9958. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." - Jesus Christ

  9959. "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." - Wayne Gretzky

  9960. "I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it." - Max Greenfield

  9961. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  9962. "Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'" - Annie Dillard

  9963. "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith

  9964. "God is best known in not knowing him." - Saint Augustine

  9965. "For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road." - Bubba Wallace

  9966. "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." - Ralph W. Sockman

  9967. "When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true." - Willard Scott

  9968. "One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Gian Carlo Menotti

  9969. "Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't." - Alexander McQueen

  9970. "I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved." - Pierce Brosnan

  9971. "In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934." - Jack Steinberger

  9972. "The crown of lamb has always been a quintessential Christmas dish, and growing up in India, we would read about lamb when learning about the holiday." - Maneet Chauhan

  9973. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  9974. "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." - Pat Riley

  9975. "My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it." - Omari Hardwick

  9976. "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Hermann Hesse

  9977. "I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday." - Mary H.K. Choi

  9978. "Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'" - Donna McKechnie

  9979. "In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!" - Lloyd Kaufman

  9980. "One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to." - Frank Darabont

  9981. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

  9982. "The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation." - Sandra Day O'Connor

  9983. "You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Marston

  9984. "Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback." - Len Wein

  9985. "If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?" - Shannen Doherty

  9986. "I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently." - Nikki Haley

  9987. "There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not." - Evelyn Underhill

  9988. "I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful." - Daniel Lyons

  9989. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  9990. "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." - Steven Wright

  9991. "When I was eight we went to Las Vegas for my brother Michael's 21st birthday, and my bedtime was pushed back quite late. I was always waking up as everyone was rolling in from their night out. It was an eye-opener!" - Spencer Matthews

  9992. "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God." - Jim Elliot

  9993. "It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive." - Jimin

  9994. "Being a person is really hard, obviously depending on your background for some people it can be much harder, but mental health and how we feel about ourselves is so key to changing the world in a positive way." - Kate Nash

  9995. "Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." - Ed McMahon

  9996. "The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection." - Arianna Huffington

  9997. "I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo." - Blake Anderson

  9998. "When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage." - Alex Tizon

  9999. "I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different." - Vivienne Westwood

  10000. "Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." - B. C. Forbes

  10001. "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

  10002. "I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind." - Thalia

  10003. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." - Thomas Paine

  10004. "He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking." - Kyra Sedgwick

  10005. "I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success." - Robbie Williams

  10006. "Get up every morning, tell yourself you are beautiful and gear up to win!" - Manushi Chhillar

  10007. "I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day." - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

  10008. "I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners." - Matt Harvey

  10009. "As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  10010. "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  10011. "I remember hearing the name... 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - what the hell is that?' But I was hit by the bug as well. I used to watch the cartoon every morning before I went to school, played the video game at the arcades, and was a big fan of the comics." - Sheamus

  10012. "Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families." - Melissa Bean

  10013. "There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen." - Jim Lovell

  10014. "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

  10015. "Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little." - Malaika Arora Khan

  10016. "I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success." - Rani Mukerji

  10017. "The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas." - Stanley A. McChrystal

  10018. "I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid." - Mike Shinoda

  10019. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  10020. "I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different." - Johnny Weir

  10021. "My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts." - Frankie J. Alvarez

  10022. "I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over." - Laurel Clark

  10023. "This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!" - Emma Thompson

  10024. "Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers." - Victoria Osteen

  10025. "Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  10026. "I would recommend 'Lesson Of The Evil' to be given as a DVD gift on a child's 15th birthday. In Japan, children under 15 are not allowed to watch it. Plus, 'Lesson Of The Evil' is one film where the older you get, the more you will be able to understand and enjoy the film." - Takashi Miike

  10027. "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

  10028. "My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it's really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I'll have my tree up!" - Gena Lee Nolin

  10029. "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy." - Mike Mills

  10030. "You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good." - Don Nelson

  10031. "I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car." - Murray Walker

  10032. "Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America." - Marco Rubio

  10033. "I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!" - Vince Clarke

  10034. "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." - B. C. Forbes

  10035. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - Francis of Assisi

  10036. "When I first got involved in the underground metal scene in '82, '83, there were only about five or six major Death or Black Metal bands around. There were so many other bands that were inspirational, that really helped." - Chuck Schuldiner

  10037. "Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer." - James Cronin

  10038. "One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with." - David Cameron

  10039. "In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source." - Reinhard Bonnke

  10040. "I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again." - Chrissy Teigen

  10041. "I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her." - Martie Maguire

  10042. "It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment." - Honore de Balzac

  10043. "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." - Joe DiMaggio

  10044. "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things." - Demi Lovato

  10045. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  10046. "I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam." - Art Malik

  10047. "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - Brian Tracy

  10048. "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." - Jorge Luis Borges

  10049. "I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material." - Michael Sandel

  10050. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  10051. "My mom was the strongest woman I know." - DeAngelo Williams

  10052. "But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year." - Trishelle Cannatella

  10053. "Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other." - Marvin Sapp

  10054. "My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways." - Kerri Walsh Jennings

  10055. "The road to success is always under construction." - Arnold Palmer

  10056. "I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work." - Andrew O'Hagan

  10057. "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties." - Lance Bass

  10058. "A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of." - Walter Kirn

  10059. "I always try and be as positive as I can and give people the benefit of the doubt because, in my own experience - seeing myself fall so hard so many times in my life and do so many things where I lost my way so many times - and then people didn't give up on me, like my husband and my family." - Beth Hart

  10060. "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" - C. S. Lewis

  10061. "Just because you are a mom doesn't mean whoever you were before is gone. You can bring it back." - Brie Bella

  10062. "Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic." - Tom Shales

  10063. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  10064. "There's something special about big midweek games at Easter Road, under the lights, that makes us have that little bit extra about us." - John McGinn

  10065. "The true success is the person who invented himself." - Al Goldstein

  10066. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

  10067. "What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen." - Harrison Ford

  10068. "A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself." - Grace VanderWaal

  10069. "When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas." - Chris Brown

  10070. "First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish." - Barbara Walters

  10071. "He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking." - Kyra Sedgwick

  10072. "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  10073. "I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant." - Alice Waters

  10074. "As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways." - Tim Scott

  10075. "Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude." - Bikram Choudhury

  10076. "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody." - Mojo Nixon

  10077. "You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it." - Larry Page

  10078. "My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish." - Flip Wilson

  10079. "I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback." - Alonzo Mourning

  10080. "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." - Erma Bombeck

  10081. "On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections." - Eva Herzigova

  10082. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  10083. "I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it." - Joel Osteen

  10084. "I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!" - Kimberley Nixon

  10085. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." - Buddha

  10086. "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?" - Andrea Jung

  10087. "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room." - Jennifer Lopez

  10088. "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

  10089. "For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day." - Mercedes Schlapp

  10090. "Prospering just doesn't have to do with money." - Joel Osteen

  10091. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  10092. "I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight." - Chord Overstreet

  10093. "You're a song written by the hands of God." - Shakira

  10094. "The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change." - Jess Phillips

  10095. "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas

  10096. "It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it." - Susan Hill

  10097. "I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor." - Sonu Sood

  10098. "My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too." - Daveed Diggs

  10099. "I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life." - Tyga

  10100. "If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe." - Guru Nanak

  10101. "To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation." - Philip Schaff

  10102. "Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate." - Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

  10103. "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

  10104. "My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me." - Gretchen Carlson

  10105. "I dislike snobby people, routine housework and getting up early in the morning, and central heating." - Rita Tushingham

  10106. "I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town." - Scott Bakula

  10107. "I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there." - Kohei Uchimura

  10108. "I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered." - Sonia Sotomayor

  10109. "I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things." - Dick Cheney

  10110. "It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there." - Haley Reinhart

  10111. "I never looked at ECW as wrestling. I always considered it more of a theology. I don't know whether I had or didn't have a messianic complex during that time. But I bought into the movement as much as, if not more than, anybody else. If I sold anyone on the religion of extreme, I was its number-one customer." - Paul Heyman

  10112. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  10113. "It's so good to get up in the morning and see a donkey - they're just unbelievably beautiful and funny. My donkey Hector laughs when I walk towards him; he knows mortality when he sees it." - John Nettles

  10114. "We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success." - Henry Cloud

  10115. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi

  10116. "My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her." - Charlie Haden

  10117. "I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith." - Brian Littrell

  10118. "Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies." - Blake Lively

  10119. "By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." - James G. Frazer

  10120. "My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives." - Sofia Coppola

  10121. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele

  10122. "When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum." - Neil Jackson

  10123. "My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered - she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94." - Emilia Wickstead

  10124. "Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away." - Chuck Palahniuk

  10125. "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" - Jennifer Aniston

  10126. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  10127. "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

  10128. "Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open." - Gustav Klimt

  10129. "It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder." - Ray Comfort

  10130. "We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance." - Christopher Plummer

  10131. "On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers." - Bobby Ghosh

  10132. "Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her." - Tony Randall

  10133. "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him." - Thomas Hardy

  10134. "Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress." - Shawn Achor

  10135. "I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science." - Bill Nye

  10136. "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  10137. "I found myself in a meeting on my 13th birthday, which I really had no idea the enormity of, but I was in a meeting with the CEO of Atlantic Records, who sort of signed me right then and there as I was playing guitar for him." - Cody Simpson

  10138. "Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind." - James Martineau

  10139. "I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant." - Queen Latifah

  10140. "The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  10141. "My house is a very calm and beautiful place and is full of positive energy." - Chris de Burgh

  10142. "I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration." - William P. Young

  10143. "I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  10144. "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me." - Ray Bradbury

  10145. "Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian." - Mother Angelica

  10146. "When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt." - Alex Bregman

  10147. "I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that." - Drake Milligan

  10148. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  10149. "Man proposes, but God disposes." - Thomas a Kempis

  10150. "When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me." - Karen Civil

  10151. "The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is." - Jupiter Hammon

  10152. "I always said God was against art and I still believe it." - Edward Elgar

  10153. "God has blessed me tremendously." - Derrick Henry

  10154. "Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person." - Usain Bolt

  10155. "I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on." - John Hurt

  10156. "The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture." - Jose Andres

  10157. "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." - Louis Kronenberger

  10158. "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else." - Angie Stone

  10159. "I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality." - Finn Balor

  10160. "I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting." - Mary Berry

  10161. "This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide." - Anatoly Karpov

  10162. "I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?" - Brian Jacques

  10163. "In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side." - Vittoria Ceretti

  10164. "Let each man exercise the art he knows." - Aristophanes

  10165. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller

  10166. "I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love." - Charlie Puth

  10167. "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." - Zora Neale Hurston

  10168. "I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world." - Dennis Edwards

  10169. "God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease." - Bernie Siegel

  10170. "We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership." - Wendy Kopp

  10171. "I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive." - Eddie Izzard

  10172. "Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  10173. "Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks." - Regina Brett

  10174. "You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy." - Ellen Stofan

  10175. "My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy." - Alec Baldwin

  10176. "I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated." - Twyla Tharp

  10177. "My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material." - Tommy Chong

  10178. "Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research." - Kierston Wareing

  10179. "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." - Tommy Lasorda

  10180. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  10181. "One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful." - Thomas Arnold

  10182. "I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes." - Bipasha Basu

  10183. "The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection." - Arianna Huffington

  10184. "I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down." - Mo Rocca

  10185. "Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone." - Karl Barth

  10186. "I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working." - Lesley Gore

  10187. "Success is best when it's shared." - Howard Schultz

  10188. "On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles." - Mary Antin

  10189. "Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own." - Ethel Merman

  10190. "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will." - Pope Paul VI

  10191. "You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing." - Taylor Lautner

  10192. "Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants." - P. J. O'Rourke

  10193. "People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive." - Vivek Oberoi

  10194. "As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  10195. "I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'" - Ireland Baldwin

  10196. "Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that." - Aretha Franklin

  10197. "This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world." - Roma Downey

  10198. "You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works." - Greg Boyle

  10199. "My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out." - Jess Walter

  10200. "I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs." - Simon Hoggart

  10201. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

  10202. "Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right." - Kajol

  10203. "When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me." - Amy Robach

  10204. "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols." - Tori Amos

  10205. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone

  10206. "I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition." - Stephen Hawking

  10207. "I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music." - Lady Gaga

  10208. "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." - Bobby Moynihan

  10209. "I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing." - Casey Kasem

  10210. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  10211. "I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been." - Lewis Black

  10212. "Can't nobody else get in there and help you. Your coach, he can't get in the ring and fight with you. You don't have your dad, your mom. When you get in the ring, you don't have anybody but yourself." - Claressa Shields

  10213. "I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them." - Channing Tatum

  10214. "I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can." - Mindy McCready

  10215. "Home is where my mom is." - Brittany Murphy

  10216. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  10217. "Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago." - Kara Swisher

  10218. "Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God." - Rick Warren

  10219. "Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war." - Hans Kung

  10220. "As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release." - Jackson Browne

  10221. "New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way." - Klaus Schwab

  10222. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  10223. "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." - Catherine Zeta-Jones

  10224. "My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better." - DMX

  10225. "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

  10226. "Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better." - Jerry Lewis

  10227. "I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning." - Albert Brooks

  10228. "Real Madrid is much more than I expected. I love waking up in the morning and going to Valdebebas." - Casemiro

  10229. "One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season." - Marlo Thomas

  10230. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

  10231. "My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal." - Lorde

  10232. "Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want." - John Waters

  10233. "I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'" - Vincent Rodriguez III

  10234. "Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment." - Sally Quinn

  10235. "The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." - Empedocles

  10236. "The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love." - Michael Buble

  10237. "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head." - Malcolm Mclaren

  10238. "Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun." - Chris Hardwick

  10239. "It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now." - Jurgen Klopp

  10240. "I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do." - Busy Philipps

  10241. "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." - Aleister Crowley

  10242. "We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems." - Meena Harris

  10243. "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." - Wendy Cope

  10244. "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand." - Howard Cosell

  10245. "Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough." - Toby Young

  10246. "I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that." - LL Cool J

  10247. "Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through." - Ciara

  10248. "Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day." - Rafael Nadal

  10249. "On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say." - Charles Stanley

  10250. "The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things." - Nick Hanauer

  10251. "Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it." - Larry the Cable Guy

  10252. "You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure." - Jim Dale

  10253. "There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it." - Jennie Finch

  10254. "Sex is God's joke on human beings." - Bette Davis

  10255. "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." - Paul Sweeney

  10256. "My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that." - Sam Harris

  10257. "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel." - Beth Ditto

  10258. "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion." - William Blake

  10259. "We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into their bedrooms at 1 A.M. and filling the stockings up at the end of the bed." - Richard Attenborough

  10260. "Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline." - Bil Keane

  10261. "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free." - Ray Manzarek

  10262. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  10263. "Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down." - Tomi Lahren

  10264. "There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." - O. Henry

  10265. "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

  10266. "I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally." - TobyMac

  10267. "For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more." - Bobby Bones

  10268. "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." - Sylvester Stallone

  10269. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

  10270. "A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem." - Jazz Jennings

  10271. "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Khalil Gibran

  10272. "One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them." - Roy H. Williams

  10273. "Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person." - Shepard Fairey

  10274. "When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television." - Justin Timberlake

  10275. "My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way." - Scott Eastwood

  10276. "My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time." - Julia Roberts

  10277. "I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley." - Ashley Graham

  10278. "My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it." - Anne Lamott

  10279. "For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest." - Patti Scialfa

  10280. "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E. B. White

  10281. "I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic." - Denis Thatcher

  10282. "The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand." - Charles Eastman

  10283. "Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?" - Sayed Kashua

  10284. "Reason is God's crowning gift to man." - Sophocles

  10285. "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty

  10286. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

  10287. "Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse." - Norman Finkelstein

  10288. "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." - John Wesley

  10289. "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it." - Tricia Helfer

  10290. "I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat." - Ivanka Trump

  10291. "I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth." - Walter O'Brien

  10292. "I have a Children's Charity in Cuckfield, West Sussex, which helps young children affected by cerebral palsy and associated disorders. The perseverance these young people display every day is inspirational." - Vera Lynn

  10293. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

  10294. "My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her... then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn't for me." - Ross Butler

  10295. "When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended." - Sheck Wes

  10296. "Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think." - Johnny Mathis

  10297. "Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine." - Charles Baudelaire

  10298. "I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'" - Kurtis Blow

  10299. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  10300. "One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her." - Brad Pitt

  10301. "I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning." - T. J. Thyne

  10302. "I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children." - Corey Feldman

  10303. "Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ." - Monica Johnson

  10304. "If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today." - Jack Canfield

  10305. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  10306. "If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?" - Shannen Doherty

  10307. "Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity." - Zig Ziglar

  10308. "Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  10309. "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." - Barack Obama

  10310. "I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'" - Ruth Ware

  10311. "The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed." - Deval Patrick

  10312. "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?" - Emma Goldman

  10313. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive." - Jean Chatzky

  10314. "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." - Gertrude Stein

  10315. "When you're a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died." - Ali Wong

  10316. "I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer." - Darren Boyd

  10317. "If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full." - Rory McIlroy

  10318. "Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know." - Emile Hirsch

  10319. "Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead." - David Cameron

  10320. "My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places." - Tinashe

  10321. "In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty." - James Anthony Froude

  10322. "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." - Rose George

  10323. "Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it." - Tony McCoy

  10324. "Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed." - Sushma Swaraj

  10325. "From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship." - M. Stanton Evans

  10326. "You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness." - Brad Garrett

  10327. "I expect that I will still wake up every morning and ponder the choice I have made to speak my mind about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. It is a pattern that I have grown accustomed to." - Jamal Khashoggi

  10328. "My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think." - Birdy

  10329. "Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time." - Prue Leith

  10330. "Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies." - Blake Lively

  10331. "I grew up surrounded by all types of cultures - French, Indian, Arabic - a melting pot of cultures, sounds, foods, people, and religions. It opened my eyes early, and I'm grateful for that. It's not about success in one area; it's about exploring the world musically and spending time in those places whenever you can." - DJ Snake

  10332. "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy." - Mike Mills

  10333. "We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that." - Barbara Jordan

  10334. "Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals." - David A. Bednar

  10335. "We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it." - Brie Larson

  10336. "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa

  10337. "What we think, we become." - Buddha

  10338. "My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife." - Stephanie Cutter

  10339. "My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me." - Aerin Lauder

  10340. "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven." - Alphonse de Lamartine

  10341. "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs." - Denis Diderot

  10342. "I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith." - Stephen Curry

  10343. "God made the country, and man made the town." - William Cowper

  10344. "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!" - Rodney Atkins

  10345. "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine

  10346. "Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house." - Malik Yoba

  10347. "Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt." - P. J. O'Rourke

  10348. "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." - Earl Nightingale

  10349. "God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest." - P. D. James

  10350. "We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth." - Charles Stanley

  10351. "Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother." - Annette Funicello

  10352. "I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me." - Hari Nef

  10353. "I'm literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity." - Logic

  10354. "The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi." - Beth Henley

  10355. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry Ward Beecher

  10356. "There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best." - Cristiano Ronaldo

  10357. "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you." - Joel Osteen

  10358. "My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people." - Brendon Burchard

  10359. "My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life." - Shraddha Kapoor

  10360. "Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home." - Arjun Kapoor

  10361. "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both." - Shia LaBeouf

  10362. "Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  10363. "Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right." - Kajol

  10364. "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller

  10365. "We are never defeated unless we give up on God." - Ronald Reagan

  10366. "Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him." - Fred Armisen

  10367. "I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday." - Yara Shahidi

  10368. "The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts." - Hank Azaria

  10369. "All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude." - Rose Namajunas

  10370. "I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship." - Bill de Blasio

  10371. "The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex." - Hugh Hefner

  10372. "I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all." - Mel Brooks

  10373. "I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5." - Brad Stevens

  10374. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  10375. "We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together." - Jay Rock

  10376. "I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over." - Laurel Clark

  10377. "We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God." - Joshua Bell

  10378. "The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives." - Anita Sarkeesian

  10379. "I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started hearing this woman screaming my full name at three in the morning, every night. Finally, on the seventh or eighth night, she screamed it again, and I woke up." - Zak Bagans

  10380. "I try to be positive, and from 'Individual'... which was an angry record. I got a lot of mail from people pouring out their feelings, saying that they could really relate to certain topics that I touched upon. When I read that, it lets know that there are people out there that are people out there who are going through the same things." - Chuck Schuldiner

  10381. "The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him." - Lauren Alaina

  10382. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  10383. "It's really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day - 100% guaranteed." - Jocko Willink

  10384. "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." - Margaret Thatcher

  10385. "Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude." - Bikram Choudhury

  10386. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau

  10387. "I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12." - Anjelah Johnson

  10388. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." - W. Somerset Maugham

  10389. "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell

  10390. "When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up." - Diana Gabaldon

  10391. "God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything." - John Coltrane

  10392. "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'" - Johnny Carson

  10393. "We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary." - Mariella Frostrup

  10394. "Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch." - Chang-Rae Lee

  10395. "In my house, we couldn't listen to 'Love to Love You Baby.' It was way too salacious back in the day. I remember my mom would turn the station off when that song came on the radio. But, of course, I played my album to death in my bedroom, with the door closed." - LaChanze

  10396. "I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip." - Ne-Yo

  10397. "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge

  10398. "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  10399. "The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas." - Richard Attenborough

  10400. "I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too." - Dia Mirza

  10401. "I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50." - Maria Conchita Alonso

  10402. "My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems." - Rony Abovitz

  10403. "My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two." - Anne F. Beiler

  10404. "The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'" - Jensen Ackles

  10405. "A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does." - Melania Trump

  10406. "I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy." - Marcus Luttrell

  10407. "When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much." - Adam Carolla

  10408. "People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life." - Roma Downey

  10409. "I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed." - Evan Ross

  10410. "I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it." - Tariq Ali

  10411. "I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in." - Thundercat

  10412. "It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational." - Shawn Mendes

  10413. "I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem." - Kylie Jenner

  10414. "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it." - Joan Lunden

  10415. "It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail." - David Merrick

  10416. "If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion." - Martin Amis

  10417. "Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning." - Jo Brand

  10418. "I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm a sister and a best friend." - Tia Mowry

  10419. "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God." - E. Stanley Jones

  10420. "I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere." - Rebecca Romijn

  10421. "I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners." - Matt Harvey

  10422. "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." - Jim Elliot

  10423. "I get bashful in the spotlight. Even at home or at a birthday party, I hate that stuff." - Julius Peppers

  10424. "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." - Erskine Bowles

  10425. "We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale." - Christopher Nolan

  10426. "My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me." - Nate Robinson

  10427. "I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area." - Kane Brown

  10428. "O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams." - Saint Augustine

  10429. "I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning." - T. J. Thyne

  10430. "For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music." - Moby

  10431. "'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song." - Ally Brooke

  10432. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States." - Michelle Obama

  10433. "To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin." - Donatella Versace

  10434. "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot

  10435. "The one thing that I know is that you win with good people." - Don Shula

  10436. "I like working on my birthday, so I always do." - Abhishek Bachchan

  10437. "You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55." - Bob Dole

  10438. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere

  10439. "I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me." - Gigi Gorgeous

  10440. "We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace." - Stanley Hauerwas

  10441. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  10442. "Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments." - Gina Rodriguez

  10443. "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today." - Anna Deavere Smith

  10444. "My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun." - Miranda Cosgrove

  10445. "I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me." - Naveen Jain

  10446. "For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'" - Daisy Lowe

  10447. "Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks." - Stephen Henderson

  10448. "I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children." - Keiynan Lonsdale

  10449. "Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children." - Billy Graham

  10450. "I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice." - Utada Hikaru

  10451. "No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin

  10452. "Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her." - Tony Randall

  10453. "When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean." - Isabel Lucas

  10454. "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'" - David Sedaris

  10455. "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it." - Glenn Beck

  10456. "I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper." - Alan Moore

  10457. "My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past." - A. R. Rahman

  10458. "The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another." - Beau Willimon

  10459. "I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth." - Ali Wong

  10460. "When deeds speak, words are nothing." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  10461. "Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day." - Ciara

  10462. "Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil." - Basil Hume

  10463. "God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires." - Francis Bacon

  10464. "We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases." - Greta Thunburg

  10465. "The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success." - Adam Grant

  10466. "My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world." - Casey Wilson

  10467. "I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope." - Frank Gehry

  10468. "I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too." - Nick Vujicic

  10469. "Success is always a matter of some luck and timing." - Kathleen Kennedy

  10470. "This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!" - Emma Thompson

  10471. "My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression." - Jessica Biel

  10472. "The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

  10473. "Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I'm always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game." - Raul

  10474. "When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it." - Tracy Morgan

  10475. "My mom reminds me that all things are possible." - Amandla Stenberg

  10476. "Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine." - Damaris Phillips

  10477. "The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth." - David Ogden Stiers

  10478. "I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me." - Moon Unit Zappa

  10479. "I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug." - Peter Mayle

  10480. "You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side." - Martin Seligman

  10481. "Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  10482. "I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!" - Arianna Huffington

  10483. "My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me." - Pink

  10484. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  10485. "My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little." - Paul Dano

  10486. "The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more." - Marcel Wanders

  10487. "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things." - Demi Lovato

  10488. "Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book." - Jean Harlow

  10489. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  10490. "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke

  10491. "My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it." - Thomas S. Monson

  10492. "Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot." - Ashley Scott

  10493. "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt

  10494. "You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do." - Mick Jagger

  10495. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

  10496. "I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time." - Garrison Keillor

  10497. "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac

  10498. "I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be." - Ranbir Kapoor

  10499. "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut

  10500. "We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities." - William Griffith Wilson

  10501. "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

  10502. "I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ." - Ignatius of Antioch

  10503. "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson

  10504. "I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive." - Pep Guardiola

  10505. "I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God." - Hassan Rouhani

  10506. "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." - John Muir

  10507. "When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it." - Darlene Love

  10508. "I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too." - Robert Trujillo

  10509. "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken

  10510. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  10511. "When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple." - Paulo Coelho

  10512. "When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces." - Peter Billingsley

  10513. "I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album." - Ally Brooke

  10514. "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." - Garrison Keillor

  10515. "We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought." - Max Joseph

  10516. "When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent." - Matthew Quick

  10517. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  10518. "If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum." - Romola Garai

  10519. "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is." - Albert Camus

  10520. "If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you." - Mahalia Jackson

  10521. "My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream." - Daniel Bruhl

  10522. "I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn." - Muddy Waters

  10523. "It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs." - Kathy Najimy

  10524. "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit." - William Robertson Smith

  10525. "Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." - Konrad von Gesner

  10526. "The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas." - Stanley A. McChrystal

  10527. "Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here." - Bill Rancic

  10528. "When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go." - Yuna

  10529. "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." - Jean Kerr

  10530. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  10531. "My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew." - Miranda Lambert

  10532. "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God." - John Shelby Spong

  10533. "It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento." - Joan Didion

  10534. "Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  10535. "Dog is God spelled backward." - Duane Chapman

  10536. "I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!" - Shoshannah Stern

  10537. "I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me." - Rudy Ray Moore

  10538. "Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects." - Bjarke Ingels

  10539. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." - Bertrand Russell

  10540. "An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted." - Donald Cram

  10541. "And to this day, my Mom is my role model." - Paul Ryan

  10542. "I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion." - Ricardo Montalban

  10543. "Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey." - Alex Noble

  10544. "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols." - Tori Amos

  10545. "My mom's a hustler. She a grinder." - Rick Ross

  10546. "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement." - Marcus Garvey

  10547. "Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration." - Sue Monk Kidd

  10548. "Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news." - Ethel Waters

  10549. "If I can be some kind of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up." - Brian Banks

  10550. "Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity." - Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  10551. "When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn." - Aidan Gillen

  10552. "The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow." - Unai Emery

  10553. "There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts." - Adam Mansbach

  10554. "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus

  10555. "Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed." - Josh Gad

  10556. "So how do you make it as a mainstream entertainer? Who knows? But I think you have to be uncomfortable, right? You have to make yourself uncomfortable. All success stories depend on that. That's why I might start sleeping on hardwood floors and taking cold showers." - Logan Paul

  10557. "If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull." - Jennifer Coolidge

  10558. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive." - Jean Chatzky

  10559. "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." - Edmond de Goncourt

  10560. "We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything." - Adam Driver

  10561. "God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live." - Stephen King

  10562. "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" - James Allen

  10563. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  10564. "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." - Erma Bombeck

  10565. "I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people." - Viola Davis

  10566. "I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'" - Michael Weatherly

  10567. "I'm an American designer. It's important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I first came to the States, she was so shocked that everyone was so dressed down in sandals and shorts. It's not quite like that in Asia. To give that a superluxurious makeover? For me to make street wear? It's sort of chic to do it." - Jason Wu

  10568. "When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning." - Marv Levy

  10569. "My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then." - Morten Harket

  10570. "Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles." - Edwin Louis Cole

  10571. "I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy." - Thalia

  10572. "Enthusiasm moves the world." - Arthur Balfour

  10573. "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." - Thomas Wolfe

  10574. "Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it)." - Rick Perlstein

  10575. "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." - Arnold Palmer

  10576. "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." - Charles M. Schulz

  10577. "My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto." - Cote de Pablo

  10578. "You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while." - Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  10579. "Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness." - Michelle Dean

  10580. "My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning." - Ryan Lochte

  10581. "I think a robot butler would be a great idea for certain things. But the idea of anybody coming into my bedroom and doing stuff for me, besides my wife and I - such as giving you tea in the morning - I just find a bit irksome." - John Torode

  10582. "If you have talent, then success will come to you." - Kartik Aaryan

  10583. "Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy's levelling impulses could not be more acute." - Mark Fisher

  10584. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo

  10585. "For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need." - Finn Wolfhard

  10586. "Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I'm still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that." - Angie Thomas

  10587. "With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties." - Lisa Loeb

  10588. "Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever." - Charles Spurgeon

  10589. "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - Richard Dawkins

  10590. "God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive." - Edwin Louis Cole

  10591. "If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'" - Miley Cyrus

  10592. "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  10593. "God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  10594. "I don't feel like I'm a perfect mom, and then there are times at work where I feel like maybe I wasn't perfect here because of constraints on my time. But having the sum of both of those things going on in my life makes me a better mom at the end of the day, and I think gives me really important perspectives in the workplace as well." - Susan Wojcicki

  10595. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - James M. Barrie

  10596. "I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured." - Colton Haynes

  10597. "Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player." - John McEnroe

  10598. "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." - Isoroku Yamamoto

  10599. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." - George W. Bush

  10600. "The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts." - Hank Azaria

  10601. "It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture." - Wangari Maathai

  10602. "I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'" - Michael Ball

  10603. "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel

  10604. "Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion." - Bill O'Reilly

  10605. "Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London." - Tom Hardy

  10606. "Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families." - Mitt Romney

  10607. "I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary." - Hannah John-Kamen

  10608. "Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday." - John Clayton

  10609. "Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship." - Robert Webb

  10610. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  10611. "A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself." - James Allen

  10612. "You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like." - Naomi Shihab Nye

  10613. "I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for." - Brittany Murphy

  10614. "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much." - Elbert Hubbard

  10615. "God forgive you, but I never can." - Elizabeth I

  10616. "Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had." - Billy Crystal

  10617. "I wear green on Sunday because it's my mom's favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too." - Tony Finau

  10618. "There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look." - Jorja Smith

  10619. "Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have." - Glen Campbell

  10620. "It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges." - Wylie Dufresne

  10621. "I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M." - James Rodriguez

  10622. "I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper." - Henry Rollins

  10623. "I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty." - Brittany Snow

  10624. "My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her." - Eugenio Derbez

  10625. "When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them." - Michael Morpurgo

  10626. "He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking." - Kyra Sedgwick

  10627. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  10628. "My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'" - Zoe Kravitz

  10629. "And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected." - Spike Milligan

  10630. "Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different." - Cindy Williams

  10631. "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us." - Allyson Felix

  10632. "I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety." - Linda Lael Miller

  10633. "Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open." - Gustav Klimt

  10634. "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young

  10635. "It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success." - Amy Tan

  10636. "It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues." - Philip Gibbs

  10637. "The best revenge in the world is success." - Suge Knight

  10638. "Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children." - Dirk Benedict

  10639. "Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career." - Patty Smyth

  10640. "My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym." - Jacob Dalton

  10641. "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

  10642. "The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered." - John Elway

  10643. "I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me." - SZA

  10644. "I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I last spoke with him on Christmas Day 2002, when I called him to talk about an argument I'd had with my cousin; he died two months later, on February 27, 2003." - Tom Junod

  10645. "Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?" - Peter Tosh

  10646. "I love being around positive people and making people smile." - JaVale McGee

  10647. "My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through." - Brantley Gilbert

  10648. "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday." - Lawrence Tierney

  10649. "The road to success runs uphill." - Willie Davis

  10650. "I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope." - Adam Beach

  10651. "In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good." - Jack Harbaugh

  10652. "All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous." - Noreena Hertz

  10653. "The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal." - Yair Lapid

  10654. "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family." - Adriana Trigiani

  10655. "I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana." - R. Kelly

  10656. "We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope." - Jim Lovell

  10657. "Being a person is really hard, obviously depending on your background for some people it can be much harder, but mental health and how we feel about ourselves is so key to changing the world in a positive way." - Kate Nash

  10658. "I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue-eyed girls. Who was Mary? And the shepherds were all the black and Indian kids in the background." - John Barnes

  10659. "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." - Henry Kissinger

  10660. "The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph." - Nostradamus

  10661. "Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'" - Sloane Crosley

  10662. "I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock." - Howard Stern

  10663. "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

  10664. "Oh yes, my best birthday gift was when my dad gifted me my first car in college. It was a Maruti Swift. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It was so much fun, as I could completely show it off to my friends that I have my own car now and not my dad's car." - Huma Qureshi

  10665. "The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter." - Reba McEntire

  10666. "Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  10667. "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?" - Stephen Colbert

  10668. "I'm sponsored by the solar company Goal Zero, and they were gracious enough to install panels on my van and a nice battery system for the inside. I have lights and a fridge inside the van. And of course I had panels installed on my mom's house." - Alex Honnold

  10669. "No star is bigger than the success of a film." - Prabhas

  10670. "Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it." - Larry the Cable Guy

  10671. "My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core." - Vin Diesel

  10672. "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states." - Arthur Godfrey

  10673. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

  10674. "Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything." - Nigel Mansell

  10675. "One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans." - Roger Taylor

  10676. "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent." - Pearl S. Buck

  10677. "I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do." - Dwayne Johnson

  10678. "I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions." - Bonnie Raitt

  10679. "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  10680. "All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way." - Mary Berry

  10681. "At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life." - John Vane

  10682. "I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success." - Monte Irvin

  10683. "9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us." - Michelle Malkin

  10684. "Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something." - Ralph Marston

  10685. "We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives." - Gordon Brown

  10686. "Religion is induced insanity." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  10687. "There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens." - Martin Van Buren

  10688. "Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children." - Susan Burton

  10689. "It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career." - Santigold

  10690. "You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing." - Steven Adler

  10691. "The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked." - Adoniram Judson

  10692. "When I was younger I wish there had been more opportunities to just go out and enjoy myself. So, now that I am in a privileged position I want to try and be a positive influence if I can." - Micah Richards

  10693. "The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought." - Peter Ustinov

  10694. "I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo." - Bindi Irwin

  10695. "My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes." - Kourtney Kardashian

  10696. "I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." - Audrey Hepburn

  10697. "I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day." - Ellie Kemper

  10698. "Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference." - Shari Arison

  10699. "My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  10700. "On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!" - John Torode

  10701. "To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success." - Anna Pavlova

  10702. "I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football." - Taylor Kitsch

  10703. "None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow." - Terri Irwin

  10704. "The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light." - Charles Spurgeon

  10705. "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics." - David Attenborough

  10706. "It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'" - Tori Spelling

  10707. "A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  10708. "If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything." - Eugene H. Peterson

  10709. "There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now." - Guru Nanak

  10710. "My mom, she's still always there for me. Always." - David Ortiz

  10711. "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson

  10712. "I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it." - Jon Gries

  10713. "My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party." - Robert Webb

  10714. "One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to." - Frank Darabont

  10715. "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  10716. "I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there." - Robin Trower

  10717. "I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way." - Amy Purdy

  10718. "Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age." - Madelyn Cline

  10719. "Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God." - Pope Francis

  10720. "Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied." - Ruby Wax

  10721. "I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.'" - Mira Sorvino

  10722. "Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning." - Virat Kohli

  10723. "When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas." - Chris Brown

  10724. "It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life." - Constance Marie

  10725. "And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around." - Ashley Judd

  10726. "I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that's just a reflection about what I've been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive." - 21 Savage

  10727. "Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities." - Harvey Mackay

  10728. "There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability." - Robert Green

  10729. "I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house." - Sue Townsend

  10730. "The biggest thing that I've noticed since the move to Barcelona was announced is just how positive the comments have been. It was not just in the mainstream media, but also on social media." - Toni Duggan

  10731. "Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called 'Head of the Family.' CBS didn't want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'" - Carl Reiner

  10732. "I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing." - Paige VanZant

  10733. "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'" - David Sedaris

  10734. "My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk." - Linda Sue Park

  10735. "I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5." - Brad Stevens

  10736. "Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value." - Desmond Tutu

  10737. "I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life." - Robert Battle

  10738. "I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up." - Charlie Puth

  10739. "My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings." - Andy Kindler

  10740. "We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive." - Brad Garlinghouse

  10741. "Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is." - Tennessee Williams

  10742. "In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams." - Sergio Leone

  10743. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  10744. "Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world." - Amy Chua

  10745. "I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart." - Pope John XXIII

  10746. "I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes." - Lech Walesa

  10747. "Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive." - Ving Rhames

  10748. "God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  10749. "Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing." - Kurt Busch

  10750. "I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike." - Sean Lock

  10751. "My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me." - James Corden

  10752. "If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm X

  10753. "I never focus on success; I only focus on listening to my online community and being consistent." - Rosanna Pansino

  10754. "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success." - Bo Bennett

  10755. "The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational." - Asma Jahangir

  10756. "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." - Michael Jackson

  10757. "My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company." - Christie Hefner

  10758. "The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families." - Guy Fieri

  10759. "The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed." - Robert Collier

  10760. "Hope is but the dream of those who wake." - Matthew Prior

  10761. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  10762. "One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday." - Michael Buffer

  10763. "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms." - Neal Boortz

  10764. "You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity." - Rafael Nadal

  10765. "I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships." - Goldie Hawn

  10766. "First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful." - Barry Manilow

  10767. "I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too." - Robert Trujillo

  10768. "I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart." - Jason Derulo

  10769. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen

  10770. "I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on the set of the film. That was the first time I had travelled to India, and it was a rollercoaster ride. I soon fell in love with the country." - Amy Jackson

  10771. "If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences." - H. P. Lovecraft

  10772. "Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me enough knowledge to take the important facts about healthy vending options to my own personal and professional contacts and expand these positive programs wherever we can." - Steve Finley

  10773. "Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down." - Tim Burton

  10774. "The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other." - John Clayton

  10775. "It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice." - Valentina Zelyaeva

  10776. "Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." - Taylor Caldwell

  10777. "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." - Jean-Paul Sartre

  10778. "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." - Francis Quarles

  10779. "I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank." - Samantha Barks

  10780. "None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue." - Mary Astell

  10781. "Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams." - Harlan Ellison

  10782. "I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years." - Dan Jenkins

  10783. "You only get one mom." - Matt Barnes

  10784. "Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year." - Joel Osteen

  10785. "As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude." - Brooke Baldwin

  10786. "I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  10787. "When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple." - Paulo Coelho

  10788. "I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'" - Michael Ball

  10789. "Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us." - William Ames

  10790. "The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed." - Deval Patrick

  10791. "We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease." - Dorothea Dix

  10792. "I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity." - Martin Seligman

  10793. "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." - Dalai Lama

  10794. "Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish." - Akhil Sharma

  10795. "I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success." - R. Madhavan

  10796. "My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea." - Gary Oldman

  10797. "Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God." - Radhanath Swami

  10798. "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

  10799. "I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion." - Jack Bowman

  10800. "I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time." - Paulo Coelho

  10801. "Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all." - Anushka Shetty

  10802. "My mom reminds me that all things are possible." - Amandla Stenberg

  10803. "I'm a humanist. I always believed, even with Cirque du Soliel, that this is my way to contribute to a better world. I believe I'm very privileged, but many people face the reality when they wake up in the morning of not having food or a glass of water. Life's been good to me, and I believe you have to feed the circle of life." - Guy Laliberte

  10804. "I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that." - Howie Mandel

  10805. "I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging." - Chad Lowe

  10806. "At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'" - Mary Steenburgen

  10807. "I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life." - Erica Durance

  10808. "We've all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can't bear it." - Peter Jones

  10809. "I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife." - Ree Drummond

  10810. "Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli

  10811. "Even God lends a hand to honest boldness." - Menander

  10812. "I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant." - Jimmy Gomez

  10813. "It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter." - Vanilla Ice

  10814. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  10815. "The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party." - Steve Buscemi

  10816. "I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life." - Laila Rouass

  10817. "Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player." - Christian Yelich

  10818. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  10819. "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." - Kevin Hart

  10820. "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food." - Sandra Lee

  10821. "Too low they build, who build beneath the stars." - Edward Young

  10822. "Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path." - Anthony Joshua

  10823. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera

  10824. "This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good." - Anne Frank

  10825. "When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn." - Aidan Gillen

  10826. "P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard." - Martin Seligman

  10827. "People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning." - Clare Short

  10828. "My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into." - Max von Essen

  10829. "Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee." - Michael Dirda

  10830. "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

  10831. "Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow." - David Carson

  10832. "In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew." - Ruth Park

  10833. "I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over." - Kristin Armstrong

  10834. "Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life." - Tony Evans

  10835. "It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people." - Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

  10836. "Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something." - Ralph Marston

  10837. "I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that." - Nagma

  10838. "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will." - Pope Paul VI

  10839. "My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother taught me how to do poems for Easter and Mother's Day, recitals and so on. I got attached to that, so as I got older and older, I began to recite poetry." - Rudy Ray Moore

  10840. "We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change." - Serj Tankian

  10841. "I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well." - Abby Wambach

  10842. "My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me." - Sylvia Plath

  10843. "It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder." - Shahid Kapoor

  10844. "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." - T. S. Eliot

  10845. "Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing." - Ricki Lake

  10846. "As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities." - Ron Conway

  10847. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  10848. "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." - Garrison Keillor

  10849. "The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love." - Francois Pinault

  10850. "I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events." - Steven Pinker

  10851. "I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality." - Finn Balor

  10852. "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle

  10853. "Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday." - O. J. Simpson

  10854. "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs." - Hunter S. Thompson

  10855. "There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions." - Frank Sinatra

  10856. "I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters." - Darci Lynne Farmer

  10857. "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." - Aleister Crowley

  10858. "Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives." - Jay Parini

  10859. "The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know." - Kristin Armstrong

  10860. "I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of the Nativity, literally above the place where Christ was born." - Chris de Burgh

  10861. "My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school." - John Paul DeJoria

  10862. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  10863. "All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction." - Richard P. Feynman

  10864. "Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended." - Keith Thibodeaux

  10865. "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice." - Jules Renard

  10866. "That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness." - Lupe Fiasco

  10867. "My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life." - George W. Romney

  10868. "We were in New York, and we were performing at a morning show. This fan literally ran from that studio in the middle of New York City to our airport, which was very far away. That fan ran all the way there to see us, and we were so in awe of that guy." - Ally Brooke

  10869. "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people." - B. R. Ambedkar

  10870. "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs." - Denis Diderot

  10871. "As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better." - Stan Wawrinka

  10872. "What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love." - Rajneesh

  10873. "I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one." - Kevin Brownlow

  10874. "I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me." - Juice Wrld

  10875. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  10876. "I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me." - Dwight L. Moody

  10877. "No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world." - Rob Dyrdek

  10878. "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." - Ambrose Bierce

  10879. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  10880. "The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion." - Julian Baggini

  10881. "Success - it's what you do with what you've got." - Woody Hayes

  10882. "Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it." - Lindsey Wixson

  10883. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein

  10884. "When I look on my mantelpiece and see these cards wishing me a happy 100th birthday, I can't believe it." - Vera Lynn

  10885. "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." - Jack Dempsey

  10886. "Trust in God - she will provide." - Emmeline Pankhurst

  10887. "Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul." - John Caudwell

  10888. "I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results." - Tipper Gore

  10889. "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington

  10890. "A cult is a religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe

  10891. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  10892. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  10893. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  10894. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  10895. "My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it." - Anne Lamott

  10896. "I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting." - Mary Berry

  10897. "As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground - a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads - when they could relax with their families instead." - Neil Warnock

  10898. "I like to do a little bit of exercise in the morning. I try to do, like, 20 to 25 push-ups in the morning, just to kind of get the blood flowing." - Martha MacCallum

  10899. "It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction." - Kelli O'Hara

  10900. "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher

  10901. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  10902. "The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth." - David Ogden Stiers

  10903. "If 'Heavy Rain' is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, 'Please keep making the same old stuff.'" - David Cage

  10904. "If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything." - Patsy Cline

  10905. "S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it." - Simon Fuller

  10906. "People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter." - Irena Sendler

  10907. "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell

  10908. "We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date." - Beyonce Knowles

  10909. "I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time." - Lee Min-ho

  10910. "I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner." - Bobby Bowden

  10911. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  10912. "My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible." - Derrick Rose

  10913. "Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice." - Ambrose Bierce

  10914. "Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'" - Richard Corliss

  10915. "Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope." - Diego Maradona

  10916. "As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything." - Jerry Hall

  10917. "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you." - Joel Osteen

  10918. "I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen." - Gabriel Iglesias

  10919. "I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied." - Jade Jagger

  10920. "If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational." - David Chipperfield

  10921. "God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace." - Trevor Huddleston

  10922. "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance." - Alex Rodriguez

  10923. "I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me." - Gina Carano

  10924. "My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there." - Sonoya Mizuno

  10925. "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

  10926. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

  10927. "My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!" - Debby Ryan

  10928. "Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have." - Joyce Meyer

  10929. "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." - Kevin Hart

  10930. "Do your best and leave the rest to God." - Manisha Koirala

  10931. "Love the giver more than the gift." - Brigham Young

  10932. "Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational." - Malachi Kirby

  10933. "I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me." - YoungBoy Never Broke Again

  10934. "Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind." - Ron Ben-Israel

  10935. "It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes." - Catherine Oxenberg

  10936. "Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home." - Arjun Kapoor

  10937. "Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey." - Alex Noble

  10938. "I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun." - Max Lucado

  10939. "You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness." - Brad Garrett

  10940. "I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic." - Natalie Wood

  10941. "You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days." - Anne Murray

  10942. "My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper." - Kimberly Schlapman

  10943. "Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles." - Russell M. Nelson

  10944. "My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing." - Kevin Hart

  10945. "I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet." - Jose Saramago

  10946. "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'" - Will Rogers

  10947. "I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are." - Jessie J

  10948. "When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th." - Gloria Stuart

  10949. "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation." - Robert Teeter

  10950. "I want to feel pampered and special on my birthday." - Rashami Desai

  10951. "I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim." - Tammy Faye Bakker

  10952. "To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication." - Kevin Brownlow

  10953. "I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'" - Vincent Rodriguez III

  10954. "I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away." - Natasha Richardson

  10955. "Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons." - Mohamed ElBaradei

  10956. "It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real." - Lee Pace

  10957. "Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work." - Emanuel Cleaver

  10958. "You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to." - Norman Lloyd

  10959. "I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me." - Cody Fern

  10960. "It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it." - Max Martin

  10961. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  10962. "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic." - Katharine McPhee

  10963. "I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'" - Craig David

  10964. "I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man." - Jean Harlow

  10965. "Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act." - B. R. Ambedkar

  10966. "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker

  10967. "With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate." - Joe Morton

  10968. "My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength." - Justin Trudeau

  10969. "My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that." - Sam Harris

  10970. "In our family, and not just us but even with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we celebrate every festival - be it Christmas, Easter, Eid, Diwali or our birthdays." - Ananya Panday

  10971. "During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends." - Monica Johnson

  10972. "I play for God and only God." - Memphis Depay

  10973. "Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it." - David Hockney

  10974. "When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it's always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  10975. "My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'" - Randy Rainbow

  10976. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  10977. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" - Muhammad Ali

  10978. "That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me." - Drew McIntyre

  10979. "I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life." - Ashlee Simpson

  10980. "To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ." - Bernhard Langer

  10981. "I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays." - Bryson Tiller

  10982. "I know America is very nice and very good people. I'm a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I'm always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules." - Khabib Nurmagomedov

  10983. "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - Saint Augustine

  10984. "The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'" - Adriana Trigiani

  10985. "The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years." - Declan Donnelly

  10986. "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen." - Thomas Carlyle

  10987. "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." - Alexander Smith

  10988. "Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals." - Paul J. Meyer

  10989. "I'm religiously opposed to religion." - Victor Hugo

  10990. "When I see the kind of passion Sir Alex shows, it is hard to believe he is about to celebrate his 71st birthday." - Edwin van der Sar

  10991. "Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied." - Ruby Wax

  10992. "My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down." - Chesty Puller

  10993. "I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her." - Martie Maguire

  10994. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

  10995. "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better." - Harvey Mackay

  10996. "Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs." - Claire Saffitz

  10997. "Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image." - William Ames

  10998. "I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically." - Lorde

  10999. "I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether it's - I absolutely love seeing the Photoshop jobs that people do. Not of silly cats, but of redditors who are like, 'I have this photo of like my mom. This is the last photo I took with her. She was in the hospital. Can any of you clean this photo up?'" - Alexis Ohanian

  11000. "Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity." - Charles Spurgeon

  11001. "Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?" - Faith Salie

  11002. "Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger." - Robert Reich

  11003. "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies." - Erich Fromm

  11004. "To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex." - Ha-Joon Chang

  11005. "Everybody has to work on themselves, no one is perfect. No one wakes up every morning and, you know, you have to love yourself but you also have to drive yourself from within." - P.K. Subban

  11006. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake

  11007. "My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That's what I've been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun." - Ken Griffey Jr.

  11008. "If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive." - Mark Goulston

  11009. "The key to a successful Thanksgiving is planning. Know what needs to get done, when it needs to be done, and how much effort and time it's going to take you." - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

  11010. "More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion." - Alexander Chase

  11011. "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." - Erma Bombeck

  11012. "Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse." - Rebecca West

  11013. "I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been." - Lewis Black

  11014. "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." - Charles Spurgeon

  11015. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." - Jesus Christ

  11016. "To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past." - Debbie Ford

  11017. "Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time." - Emil Nolde

  11018. "For a Nebraska kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nebraska football was a quasi-religion, so I ran out to get The Omaha World-Herald every morning, salivating for the sports page. My dad, however, required that I read one front page story and one editorial before I was allowed to turn to the sports." - Ben Sasse

  11019. "Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!" - Joyce Meyer

  11020. "In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'" - Charles Spurgeon

  11021. "I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister." - Trey Parker

  11022. "My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family." - Julie Roberts

  11023. "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha." - Sloane Crosley

  11024. "I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?" - Brian Jacques

  11025. "My mom was a single parent." - G-Eazy

  11026. "Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude." - Kirsten Sweetland

  11027. "No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning." - Cyril Connolly

  11028. "My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis." - Kumail Nanjiani

  11029. "My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars." - Kyle

  11030. "I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child." - Chris Van Allsburg

  11031. "On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!" - Laura Leighton

  11032. "I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day." - Gabrielle Bernstein

  11033. "Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas time. People play Mariah Carey Christmas songs... What else do you need in life?" - Milo Yiannopoulos

  11034. "For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started." - Ana Ivanovic

  11035. "Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church." - Tara Westover

  11036. "Every creature is a word of God." - Meister Eckhart

  11037. "The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

  11038. "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things." - Henry Ward Beecher

  11039. "I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  11040. "Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive." - Ann Oakley

  11041. "Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally." - Hannah Bronfman

  11042. "One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'" - Michio Kaku

  11043. "Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams." - Harlan Ellison

  11044. "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion." - William Blake

  11045. "My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith." - Allyson Felix

  11046. "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell." - Bill Copeland

  11047. "I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working." - Lesley Gore

  11048. "Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it." - Prosenjit Chatterjee

  11049. "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

  11050. "My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures." - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  11051. "Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!" - Zayn Malik

  11052. "That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me." - Drew McIntyre

  11053. "I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'" - Craig David

  11054. "My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible." - Jimmy Butler

  11055. "I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish." - Tom T. Hall

  11056. "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." - Amy Grant

  11057. "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God." - John Shelby Spong

  11058. "Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always." - Sadio Mane

  11059. "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God." - Armstrong Williams

  11060. "If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it." - Sundar Pichai

  11061. "I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy." - Arsene Wenger

  11062. "Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin." - Joseph Prince

  11063. "I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know." - Bill Gates

  11064. "The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn't have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known." - Ruby Bridges

  11065. "It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down." - Mark McKinnon

  11066. "I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it." - Max Greenfield

  11067. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  11068. "I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations." - Q-Tip

  11069. "There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs." - Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  11070. "I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies." - Lucas Grabeel

  11071. "My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere." - John Waters

  11072. "My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control." - Dennis Haysbert

  11073. "I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live." - Kanye West

  11074. "'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time." - A Boogie wit da Hoodie

  11075. "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." - Rabindranath Tagore

  11076. "With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that." - Sean Paul

  11077. "That first morning that I woke up self-employed, terror quickly consumed me. I found myself sitting with my laptop and realized, for the first time, that I was entirely responsible for all of my own decisions, as well as the consequences of those decisions." - Mark Manson

  11078. "Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift." - Aretha Franklin

  11079. "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." - Sean Combs

  11080. "I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling." - Yolanda Hadid

  11081. "I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas." - Martin Freeman

  11082. "Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes." - Akon

  11083. "Talent is given by God but you should respect it by doing good work." - Johnny Lever

  11084. "My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past." - A. R. Rahman

  11085. "I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet." - Jose Saramago

  11086. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

  11087. "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me." - Ray Bradbury

  11088. "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me." - Rosie O'Donnell

  11089. "Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life." - Phil Ochs

  11090. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  11091. "I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that." - Marie Helvin

  11092. "God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks." - Clint Eastwood

  11093. "Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people." - Damian Lillard

  11094. "My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'" - Chrissie Fit

  11095. "I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am." - Javed Ali

  11096. "I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving." - Tony Bennett

  11097. "Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'" - Anne McClain

  11098. "I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." - Faith Hill

  11099. "It's funny how we 'do' Christmas. Christmas is not something that we do, it is something that was done. It celebrates the long awaited arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. We had nothing to do with it, but what we can do is praise God for the coming of the Lord, who washed away the sins of the world by dying on the cross." - Monica Johnson

  11100. "I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year." - Donald Hall

  11101. "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Hermann Hesse

  11102. "To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter." - Suharto

  11103. "I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister." - Richard Coles

  11104. "The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa." - Max Heindel

  11105. "I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen." - Amy Sedaris

  11106. "How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names." - Alice Walker

  11107. "I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best." - Vaani Kapoor

  11108. "Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories." - John Boyne

  11109. "I have a very good relation with rain. When I was born in Orissa, there were severe floods. Even now it rains on my birthday." - Varun Sandesh

  11110. "My two sons are more excited about my father's birthday than him. Baba is a quiet person by nature and feels shy at any kind of celebration." - Soham Chakraborty

  11111. "God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter." - Orson Pratt

  11112. "I know America is very nice and very good people. I'm a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I'm always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules." - Khabib Nurmagomedov

  11113. "I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home." - Bad Bunny

  11114. "There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves." - Thomas S. Monson

  11115. "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family." - Madonna Ciccone

  11116. "I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist. My dad is a jazz drummer... I've been very fortunate in that I've had parents who supported and encouraged me and haven't really questioned what I'm doing or asked me to question it." - Ari Aster

  11117. "I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments." - Carolyn Murphy

  11118. "I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites." - Drew Carey

  11119. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  11120. "Christmas is always a great time because I get to be around family and spend time with my brother, nieces, and nephews, so that's what I plan to do. It's great to disconnect from everything." - Karen Civil

  11121. "I'm not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism's 'social naturalism' (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion's supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will)." - Mark Fisher

  11122. "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." - Emily Dickinson

  11123. "The negative is just as important as the positive." - Ellsworth Kelly

  11124. "You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics." - Joe Budden

  11125. "We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible." - Peter Agre

  11126. "Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'" - Jill Scott

  11127. "Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet." - Robert Charles Winthrop

  11128. "I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that." - Selena Gomez

  11129. "Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!" - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  11130. "My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little." - Paul Dano

  11131. "There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'" - Robert Osborne

  11132. "Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words." - Plautus

  11133. "Even if things are not going well for you... just stay in the positive way of thinking." - Anitta

  11134. "The first time I ever heard Airborne Toxic Event, my friend was turning 11 or something. And he had a paintball birthday party where him and me and two of our other friends went out to these paintball courses and I got obliterated. I don't think I got one hit." - Finneas

  11135. "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra

  11136. "That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about." - Alan King

  11137. "I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse." - Susanne Bier

  11138. "It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience." - Dave Haywood

  11139. "Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed." - P. J. O'Rourke

  11140. "I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips." - Amy Poehler

  11141. "I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best." - Jerry Hall

  11142. "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln

  11143. "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad." - will.i.am

  11144. "I only answer to two people, myself and God." - Cher

  11145. "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth." - Annie Besant

  11146. "My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude." - Debi Mazar

  11147. "Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people." - Rick Nielsen

  11148. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth." - Voltaire

  11149. "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." - Golda Meir

  11150. "Christmas time... is about bringing everyone together." - Orianthi

  11151. "Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way." - Vera Wang

  11152. "I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way." - Matt Bomer

  11153. "As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up." - Tom Hanks

  11154. "One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas." - Bailee Madison

  11155. "The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes." - Os Guinness

  11156. "Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset." - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  11157. "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  11158. "Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it." - Giorgio Vasari

  11159. "Success is more difficult to handle than failure." - Ravi Zacharias

  11160. "If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself." - Niklas Zennstrom

  11161. "I might be an actor professionally, but as a person I should know what our rituals, religion or our history is. Kumbh Mela really helps you in this." - Payal Rohatgi

  11162. "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed." - Mark Warner

  11163. "Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills." - Sheryl Sandberg

  11164. "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." - Amelia Barr

  11165. "I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas." - Leslie Bricusse

  11166. "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good." - Parminder Nagra

  11167. "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way." - Robert Kiyosaki

  11168. "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity." - Alfred Jarry

  11169. "You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate." - Didier Deschamps

  11170. "Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions." - Orson Welles

  11171. "I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well." - Jenna Bush

  11172. "I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards." - Ishmael Beah

  11173. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  11174. "When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful." - Malala Yousafzai

  11175. "Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope." - Diego Maradona

  11176. "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau

  11177. "The things that we love tell us what we are." - Thomas Aquinas

  11178. "An honest man's the noblest work of God." - Alexander Pope

  11179. "I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life." - Laila Rouass

  11180. "The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media." - Garrett Graff

  11181. "My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her." - Rumer Willis

  11182. "My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core." - Vin Diesel

  11183. "I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators." - Amanda Marshall

  11184. "I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips." - Macaulay Culkin

  11185. "By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it." - William Scranton

  11186. "The real secret of success is enthusiasm." - Walter Chrysler

  11187. "Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases." - Srikumar Rao

  11188. "I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos." - Jill Clayburgh

  11189. "I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough." - Johnny Vegas

  11190. "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  11191. "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" - Satchel Paige

  11192. "I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!" - Nico Mirallegro

  11193. "Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?" - Jack LaLanne

  11194. "My mom, her money going was straight to the bills." - Kodak Black

  11195. "Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that." - Bill O'Reilly

  11196. "Religion is a temper, not a pursuit." - Harriet Martineau

  11197. "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  11198. "If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television." - Abby Huntsman

  11199. "I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else." - Kate DiCamillo

  11200. "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career." - Paul Newman

  11201. "What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary." - Lea DeLaria

  11202. "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars." - Richard M. Nixon

  11203. "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful." - Prince

  11204. "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  11205. "God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer." - Ramakrishna

  11206. "I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship." - Bill de Blasio

  11207. "I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here." - Pope Francis

  11208. "If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth." - Ellen G. White

  11209. "I love this time of year. I'm the world's biggest Christmas fan!" - Phillip Schofield

  11210. "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive." - Stephen Fry

  11211. "My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard." - Mustard

  11212. "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring." - Donatella Versace

  11213. "I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one." - Sergio Aguero

  11214. "Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer." - Anthony Hopkins

  11215. "Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player." - Christian Yelich

  11216. "I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  11217. "On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting." - Jimmy White

  11218. "I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion." - Ricardo Montalban

  11219. "The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love." - Michael Buble

  11220. "Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching." - Rory McIlroy

  11221. "There will always be different opinions. Some might argue you should retire after a big success and others that the best time is after a big defeat." - Toni Kroos

  11222. "It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to." - Stephen Curry

  11223. "During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her." - Kendra Wilkinson

  11224. "My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly." - Heart Evangelista

  11225. "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states." - Arthur Godfrey

  11226. "Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology." - Donald Johanson

  11227. "Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban." - Christina Milian

  11228. "Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection." - Nell Scovell

  11229. "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?" - Stephen Colbert

  11230. "Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is." - Keith Ellison

  11231. "I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'" - Jensen Ackles

  11232. "God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble." - Ezra Taft Benson

  11233. "I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight." - Ann Aguirre

  11234. "Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people." - Kim Jong-un

  11235. "The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If the audience doesn't like one genre, they need only wait for the next number." - Mack Wilberg

  11236. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  11237. "For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat." - Wallis Simpson

  11238. "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all." - Harry Seidler

  11239. "Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

  11240. "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  11241. "In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?" - Jamie Foxx

  11242. "I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success." - Monte Irvin

  11243. "First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes." - Dolly Parton

  11244. "Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes." - Malik Bendjelloul

  11245. "I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic." - Natalie Wood

  11246. "Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans." - Tim Walberg

  11247. "My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther." - SZA

  11248. "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students." - Solomon Ortiz

  11249. "A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences." - John Lasseter

  11250. "I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast." - Liz Phair

  11251. "I don't see anybody pointing to desktop PCs as being a hot Christmas item." - Ted Waitt

  11252. "Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning." - Liam Neeson

  11253. "There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'" - Jane Goldman

  11254. "My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts." - Jordan Fisher

  11255. "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up." - Florence Griffith Joyner

  11256. "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." - Henry Ford

  11257. "I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today." - Christy Turlington

  11258. "The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion." - Lord Hailsham

  11259. "When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party." - T. J. Miller

  11260. "My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now." - Dane Cook

  11261. "Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches." - Paul Engle

  11262. "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning." - David Hockney

  11263. "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." - T. S. Eliot

  11264. "Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming." - Vaclav Klaus

  11265. "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed." - Mark Warner

  11266. "In 1974 when I was 22 years old, I was working for $95 a week at WSPB, which was an Atlanta Braves-affiliated AM radio station in Sarasota, Florida. Fresh out of Northwestern University, I was the news director at the station, and my main bread and butter was to handle updates during the morning and afternoon drive times." - Craig Sager

  11267. "By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it." - William Scranton

  11268. "We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others." - Sundar Pichai

  11269. "I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically." - Lorde

  11270. "If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." - Francis of Assisi

  11271. "People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining." - Tyler Oakley

  11272. "A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is." - Nancy Kress

  11273. "In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934." - Jack Steinberger

  11274. "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." - Pablo Picasso

  11275. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  11276. "I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me." - Noel Gallagher

  11277. "We convince by our presence." - Walt Whitman

  11278. "I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23." - Mary Steenburgen

  11279. "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?" - Emma Goldman

  11280. "Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams." - Hosea Ballou

  11281. "Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune." - Jessie Buckley

  11282. "You have to think for your team-mates and give them positive response. Whatever happens as a captain you have to take the responsibility. Backing my team-mates and supporting them was the biggest learning." - Ajinkya Rahane

  11283. "Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities." - Inga Muscio

  11284. "Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense." - Matisyahu

  11285. "I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful." - Ansel Elgort

  11286. "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington

  11287. "I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table." - Troy Gentile

  11288. "I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips." - Sue Perkins

  11289. "My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits." - Amy Chua

  11290. "I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on." - John Hurt

  11291. "My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in." - Les Dawson

  11292. "My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot." - Fred Armisen

  11293. "The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational." - Helen Sharman

  11294. "I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement." - Tyler Perry

  11295. "In our family, and not just us but even with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we celebrate every festival - be it Christmas, Easter, Eid, Diwali or our birthdays." - Ananya Panday

  11296. "Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it." - Quentin Tarantino

  11297. "Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of." - Dua Lipa

  11298. "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things." - Henry Ward Beecher

  11299. "Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions." - Orson Welles

  11300. "I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!" - Nancy Kerrigan

  11301. "Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both." - Prithviraj Sukumaran

  11302. "Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand." - Karl Marx

  11303. "And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most." - Thomas Menino

  11304. "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." - Lonzo Ball

  11305. "If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion." - Martin Amis

  11306. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States." - Michelle Obama

  11307. "If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?" - Marc Wallice

  11308. "Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits." - Bill Haslam

  11309. "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  11310. "The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that." - Ian Somerhalder

  11311. "Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence." - Jules Feiffer

  11312. "I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight." - Chord Overstreet

  11313. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  11314. "I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  11315. "I look back on being 17 and think, 'Oh my God, how did I not die?'" - John Mulaney

  11316. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  11317. "The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail." - David O. Selznick

  11318. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Joyce Brothers

  11319. "To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters." - Brenda Song

  11320. "My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas." - Kary Mullis

  11321. "Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it." - Lindsey Wixson

  11322. "A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox." - Julia Cameron

  11323. "I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning." - Mario Cantone

  11324. "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." - Henry David Thoreau

  11325. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  11326. "There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen." - George Tillman, Jr.

  11327. "Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?" - Philip Rosenthal

  11328. "Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time." - Prue Leith

  11329. "Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings." - Kelly LeBrock

  11330. "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God." - Jim Elliot

  11331. "I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us." - Jose Mujica

  11332. "I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning." - Don Rickles

  11333. "My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud." - Henry Rollins

  11334. "There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me." - Lana Condor

  11335. "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." - Jean-Paul Sartre

  11336. "A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future." - Monica Johnson

  11337. "My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again." - Stephen Elop

  11338. "I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive." - Eddie Izzard

  11339. "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." - John Keats

  11340. "Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom." - Jenny Zhang

  11341. "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." - Thomas Paine

  11342. "I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!" - Kirsten Prout

  11343. "On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message." - Stephen Schwartz

  11344. "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day." - Paul Henderson

  11345. "Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool." - Connor Franta

  11346. "To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel." - Mick Fleetwood

  11347. "Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother." - Erma Bombeck

  11348. "When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique." - Katherine Ryan

  11349. "I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.'" - Lily James

  11350. "In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development." - Jose Ramos-Horta

  11351. "My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me." - Don Lemon

  11352. "I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better." - Jean Nidetch

  11353. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  11354. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  11355. "I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing." - Alan Jackson

  11356. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

  11357. "I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion." - James May

  11358. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  11359. "Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have." - Suze Orman

  11360. "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." - Jorge Luis Borges

  11361. "I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect." - Walter Payton

  11362. "As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do." - Anthony Joshua

  11363. "Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life." - Craig Sager

  11364. "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else." - Jessie J

  11365. "We have to keep calm and stick together; that's the key to success." - Sergio Ramos

  11366. "On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground." - Coretta Scott King

  11367. "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." - Dalai Lama

  11368. "The single most important key to success is to be a good listener." - Kelly Wearstler

  11369. "God always strives together with those who strive." - Aeschylus

  11370. "At Christmas time, I spent an extortionate amount of money on Buzz Lightyear toys, baby clothes, Disney cars and the like." - Russell Tovey

  11371. "Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic." - Tom Shales

  11372. "Nothing recedes like success." - Walter Winchell

  11373. "My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close." - Ann Voskamp

  11374. "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch

  11375. "When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world." - Carole King

  11376. "I'm a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I've learned that." - Marcus Smart

  11377. "Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things." - Judy Sheindlin

  11378. "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  11379. "It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?" - Jocko Willink

  11380. "I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?" - Sunil Yapa

  11381. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  11382. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  11383. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States." - Michelle Obama

  11384. "You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics." - Joe Budden

  11385. "My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board." - Nick Frost

  11386. "Adoration is caring for God above all else." - Evelyn Underhill

  11387. "Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning." - Virat Kohli

  11388. "I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know." - Marian McPartland

  11389. "Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better." - Yao Ming

  11390. "We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality." - Curtis Mayfield

  11391. "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill

  11392. "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people." - B. R. Ambedkar

  11393. "Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ." - John Clayton

  11394. "On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols." - Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

  11395. "Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down." - Scottie Pippen

  11396. "We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God." - Joshua Bell

  11397. "If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force." - Manuel Puig

  11398. "A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus." - Ann Voskamp

  11399. "People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset." - Carol S. Dweck

  11400. "Patriotism is the religion of hell." - James Branch Cabell

  11401. "My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more." - Cristiano Ronaldo

  11402. "There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up." - Neha Dhupia

  11403. "'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion." - Lauv

  11404. "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." - Stephen Graham Jones

  11405. "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do." - Mitt Romney

  11406. "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." - Edgar Allan Poe

  11407. "God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing." - Billy Graham

  11408. "I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person." - Flume

  11409. "He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor." - Robert Green Ingersoll

  11410. "Adoration is caring for God above all else." - Evelyn Underhill

  11411. "One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God." - Ramakrishna

  11412. "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." - Sean Combs

  11413. "What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there." - Derek Jeter

  11414. "The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday." - Charles M. Blow

  11415. "First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful." - Barry Manilow

  11416. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  11417. "My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey." - Adam Lambert

  11418. "My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'" - Zack Snyder

  11419. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell

  11420. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  11421. "I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me." - Brian Posehn

  11422. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank

  11423. "I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous." - Rachel Khoo

  11424. "When I look on my mantelpiece and see these cards wishing me a happy 100th birthday, I can't believe it." - Vera Lynn

  11425. "Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." - John Morley

  11426. "Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me." - Ryan Adams

  11427. "The Hermes scarf is a coveted, much-collected symbol of success that defines the Paris-based luxury company. But it has no single designer. Rather, the scarves are designed by a far-flung array of freelance artists." - Christina Binkley

  11428. "War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it." - Martin Luther

  11429. "To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you're a gosh dang philosopher." - Kat Timpf

  11430. "I do love the Nat King Cole stuff, the classic Christmas records. There's something about putting those records on and hearing his voice at Christmastime that brings back a lot of great memories of growing up." - Michael McDonald

  11431. "Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night." - Simon Mainwaring

  11432. "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever." - Lisa Leslie

  11433. "It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that." - Lidia Bastianich

  11434. "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward

  11435. "Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them." - Terry Teachout

  11436. "My mom, her money going was straight to the bills." - Kodak Black

  11437. "Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

  11438. "It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work." - Peter Thiel

  11439. "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." - Jorge Luis Borges

  11440. "To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give." - Franka Potente

  11441. "My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief." - Conor McGregor

  11442. "Life is God's novel. Let him write it." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

  11443. "'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness." - John de Mol, Jr.

  11444. "It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture." - Wangari Maathai

  11445. "I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit." - Mary Lambert

  11446. "As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men." - Jennifer Hyman

  11447. "My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?" - Ja Rule

  11448. "Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer." - Prince Philip

  11449. "I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid." - Nick Diaz

  11450. "If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies." - Paul Farmer

  11451. "I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work." - Kristen Stewart

  11452. "There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives." - Deborah Norville

  11453. "It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more." - Ann Romney

  11454. "The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject." - Tony Evans

  11455. "My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad." - Ashton Kutcher

  11456. "I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else." - Tim Tebow

  11457. "Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'" - Jimmy Connors

  11458. "I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book." - Matthew Pearl

  11459. "It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics." - Salman Rushdie

  11460. "Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook." - Michael Dirda

  11461. "Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through." - Lesley Gore

  11462. "A place for everything, everything in its place." - Benjamin Franklin

  11463. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  11464. "My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes." - Kourtney Kardashian

  11465. "Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter." - Benjamin Franklin

  11466. "I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you." - Bipasha Basu

  11467. "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead." - William Law

  11468. "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." - Michelle Obama

  11469. "Both my parents had never been to New York, so when they got to go out with me for 'Good Morning America,' they were so happy." - Katelyn Ohashi

  11470. "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." - H. L. Mencken

  11471. "Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity." - Priyamvada Natarajan

  11472. "It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football." - Mesut Ozil

  11473. "I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings." - Ron Ben-Israel

  11474. "Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion." - Ellen G. White

  11475. "Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs." - Claire Saffitz

  11476. "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." - Rabindranath Tagore

  11477. "I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist." - Ada Yonath

  11478. "At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must." - Devendra Banhart

  11479. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  11480. "I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful." - Winnie Harlow

  11481. "If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority." - Adam Grant

  11482. "My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success." - Hideo Kojima

  11483. "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either." - Tyler Perry

  11484. "The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about." - Anthony Fauci

  11485. "I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year." - John Lanchester

  11486. "I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life." - Ciara

  11487. "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." - Charles Spurgeon

  11488. "As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude." - Brooke Baldwin

  11489. "If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place." - Ryan Holmes

  11490. "Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist." - Ray Comfort

  11491. "The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals." - Leonard Boswell

  11492. "My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired." - Kiran Bedi

  11493. "Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." - Alice Walker

  11494. "When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling." - David Henrie

  11495. "There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season." - Ernest Istook

  11496. "You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change." - Nicholas D. Kristof

  11497. "I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive." - John Hickenlooper

  11498. "I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive." - Sonia Sotomayor

  11499. "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain." - Dakota Fanning

  11500. "I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon." - Q'orianka Kilcher

  11501. "Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich

  11502. "Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun." - Stephen Spender

  11503. "Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?" - Andrew W.K.

  11504. "My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people." - Brendon Burchard

  11505. "When my mom travelled, she would bring me basketball tapes." - Masai Ujiri

  11506. "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand." - Howard Cosell

  11507. "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." - Ulysses S. Grant

  11508. "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  11509. "I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas." - Michio Kaku

  11510. "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." - Anne Sullivan

  11511. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

  11512. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  11513. "I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion." - Naomie Harris

  11514. "Every day, every one of us sets the stage for our sentiment, our confidence, and our success by getting dressed. When you feel great, when you feel your best, it opens up a world of possibility. Feeling confident and self-assured are important inputs into good days, successful days, and happy days." - Katrina Lake

  11515. "God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter." - Orson Pratt

  11516. "Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind." - Robert Louis Stevenson

  11517. "If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to." - Greg Davies

  11518. "I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all." - John Daly

  11519. "I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning." - Lisa Murkowski

  11520. "I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step." - Jurgen Klopp

  11521. "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." - Paul Sweeney

  11522. "When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees." - Trey Anastasio

  11523. "There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin." - Mary Tyler Moore

  11524. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  11525. "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family." - Madonna Ciccone

  11526. "Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." - Alice Walker

  11527. "Jesu's walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band's 2009 album 'Infinity' has its bleak moments, but that album's single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it's over." - Anthony Fantano

  11528. "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." - Colin Powell

  11529. "I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person." - Zoe Quinn

  11530. "Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever." - Charles Spurgeon

  11531. "So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my God, I feel guilty about what happened to black Americans. Rather it is the fact that in relation to black Americans you lack moral authority." - Shelby Steele

  11532. "God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow." - Joyce Meyer

  11533. "Your wardrobe can be your passport for success. What you wear to a new job interview or an audition can be of great impact and open doors for you. If you possess talent and faith in yourself, and wear clothing that enhances your personality, you have a 50 percent better chance of winning or gaining whatever you're seeking." - Walter Mercado

  11534. "There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  11535. "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen." - Madeleine Albright

  11536. "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

  11537. "It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous." - Aldous Huxley

  11538. "For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story." - Gene Siskel

  11539. "Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting." - Beth Brooke

  11540. "The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years." - Declan Donnelly

  11541. "Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes." - Voltaire

  11542. "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." - Abraham Lincoln

  11543. "My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes." - Allison Williams

  11544. "Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers." - Marillyn Hewson

  11545. "More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material." - Charles Eastman

  11546. "One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'" - Brene Brown

  11547. "My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me." - LeBron James

  11548. "God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear." - Pierce Brosnan

  11549. "The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed." - Robert Collier

  11550. "Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America." - Glenn Beck

  11551. "The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey." - Andrae Crouch

  11552. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." - Konrad Lorenz

  11553. "Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle." - Mya

  11554. "It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology." - John Polkinghorne

  11555. "I'm a firm believer that every morning brings a new opportunity for me to conquer the day." - Victoria Arlen

  11556. "The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God." - Pope Shenouda III

  11557. "It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder." - Ray Comfort

  11558. "If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes." - Persis Khambatta

  11559. "Mothers are the necessity of invention." - Bill Watterson

  11560. "I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God." - Tim Tebow

  11561. "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning." - Honore de Balzac

  11562. "Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  11563. "Only God can look at somebody's heart." - Joel Osteen

  11564. "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  11565. "I do love the Nat King Cole stuff, the classic Christmas records. There's something about putting those records on and hearing his voice at Christmastime that brings back a lot of great memories of growing up." - Michael McDonald

  11566. "Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day." - Rafael Nadal

  11567. "At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections." - Moby

  11568. "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." - Sam Ewing

  11569. "We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems." - Meena Harris

  11570. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  11571. "I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well." - Hale Irwin

  11572. "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." - Emily Dickinson

  11573. "I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning." - Jonathan Swift

  11574. "The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed." - Patrick Henry

  11575. "I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything." - Leona Lewis

  11576. "Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work." - Karl Jaspers

  11577. "You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it." - Caroline Kennedy

  11578. "Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success." - Scott Adams

  11579. "Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me." - Shakira

  11580. "The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him." - Charles Stanley

  11581. "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go." - Pearl Bailey

  11582. "I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you." - Nia Jax

  11583. "Don't get me wrong: there have been many occasions where I wished I could be thinner or have a different nose or hairline to fit in, but I realized that fitting in is not always as important as it seems; I realized that I love standing out in positive ways!" - Nia Jax

  11584. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  11585. "I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me." - Jayne Mansfield

  11586. "My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down." - Chesty Puller

  11587. "You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity." - Rafael Nadal

  11588. "My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'" - Russell Wilson

  11589. "We usually have a beautiful, sparkling Christmas tree and my dad reads us 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' in front of the fire and it's all very cozy. Then we pack up and head to meet my extended family, where we live out our yearly tradition of everyone gifting everyone underwear in their stockings." - Annie Murphy

  11590. "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." - Alexander Smith

  11591. "You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools." - Mike Gallagher

  11592. "Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?" - G-Eazy

  11593. "Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world." - Pope Francis

  11594. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." - Martin Luther

  11595. "When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way." - Chris Cornell

  11596. "I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals." - William Allen White

  11597. "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

  11598. "I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is." - Octavia Spencer

  11599. "Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both." - Prithviraj Sukumaran

  11600. "Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are." - Stedman Graham

  11601. "Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think." - Andrew Neil

  11602. "I'm a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day." - Eddie the Eagle

  11603. "Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger." - DMX

  11604. "The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life." - Kelley O'Hara

  11605. "Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals." - Barton Gellman

  11606. "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." - Thomas A. Edison

  11607. "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." - Washington Irving

  11608. "We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves." - Irina Shayk

  11609. "What you wish to others, God wishes to you." - T. B. Joshua

  11610. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

  11611. "There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things." - Saint Basil

  11612. "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God." - E. Stanley Jones

  11613. "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch

  11614. "I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out." - David Lynch

  11615. "I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move." - Beeban Kidron

  11616. "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation." - Robert Teeter

  11617. "I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children." - Keiynan Lonsdale

  11618. "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." - Honore de Balzac

  11619. "Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down." - Kyle

  11620. "We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence." - John Piper

  11621. "Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others." - Tony Evans

  11622. "My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives." - Chloe Benjamin

  11623. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

  11624. "Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers." - Cat Cora

  11625. "I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets." - Mary Kay Andrews

  11626. "There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself." - Joseph Parker

  11627. "I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas." - Dan Brown

  11628. "My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing." - Chris Brown

  11629. "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice." - Pope Paul VI

  11630. "Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever." - Charles Spurgeon

  11631. "I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me." - George Michael

  11632. "I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day." - Dolph Ziggler

  11633. "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." - Junipero Serra

  11634. "I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children." - Mary J. Blige

  11635. "My mom wanted me to be like... a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn't tryna be broke." - Lil Mosey

  11636. "The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart." - Anita Diament

  11637. "I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West." - Cupcakke

  11638. "Don't just count your years, make your years count." - George Meredith

  11639. "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." - Paramahansa Yogananda

  11640. "Chanel has always been this big thing for me - there are baby pictures of me wearing my mom's Chanel pumps." - Lily-Rose Depp

  11641. "Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." - Tom Robbins

  11642. "I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family." - Gerry Cooney

  11643. "The first time I ever heard Airborne Toxic Event, my friend was turning 11 or something. And he had a paintball birthday party where him and me and two of our other friends went out to these paintball courses and I got obliterated. I don't think I got one hit." - Finneas

  11644. "I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500." - Dale Earnhardt

  11645. "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?" - Whitney Houston

  11646. "When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'" - Tyra Banks

  11647. "I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation." - Pico Iyer

  11648. "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength." - Charles Stanley

  11649. "One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China." - Jim Webb

  11650. "God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it." - Andre Weil

  11651. "Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe." - Marc Guggenheim

  11652. "I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb." - Jon Tester

  11653. "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." - Alexander Smith

  11654. "Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be." - Jocko Willink

  11655. "From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." - Aeschylus

  11656. "I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman." - Leighton Meester

  11657. "Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!" - Ree Drummond

  11658. "The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned." - Cindy Crawford

  11659. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

  11660. "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours." - Busy Philipps

  11661. "I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that." - Von Miller

  11662. "He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." - Euripides

  11663. "I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday." - Ben Platt

  11664. "I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run." - Michael Weatherly

  11665. "I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time." - Shawn Mendes

  11666. "In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew." - Ruth Park

  11667. "There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist." - Terry Pratchett

  11668. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

  11669. "I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you." - Bipasha Basu

  11670. "I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language." - Jessye Norman

  11671. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  11672. "Yeah, Peckham's a mad place. Unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen throughout the day or the night. Today in the morning everything's cool. In the afternoon you're in mad beef. It's just normal isn't it? It's cool for us." - Giggs

  11673. "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way." - Joel Osteen

  11674. "Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'" - Jimmy Connors

  11675. "It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece." - Big Sean

  11676. "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication." - Harold S. Geneen

  11677. "Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze." - Hafez

  11678. "You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song." - Brian Wilson

  11679. "Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures." - Gordon W. Allport

  11680. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  11681. "One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking." - Julian Baggini

  11682. "When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'" - Tyra Banks

  11683. "Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative." - Donnie Yen

  11684. "They succeed, because they think they can." - Virgil

  11685. "When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day." - Lynda Resnick

  11686. "I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers." - Holly Black

  11687. "God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends." - Addison Mizner

  11688. "Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way." - Skylar Grey

  11689. "'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want." - George Lucas

  11690. "The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless." - Plato

  11691. "When all else fails, trust God." - David Robinson

  11692. "I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can." - Lily Cole

  11693. "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience." - Saint Ambrose

  11694. "My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to." - Hannah Simone

  11695. "As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success." - Henry Cavill

  11696. "Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life." - Craig Sager

  11697. "I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan." - AB de Villiers

  11698. "We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day." - Lacey Chabert

  11699. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

  11700. "I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life." - Erica Durance

  11701. "Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." - Robert Green Ingersoll

  11702. "I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room." - Dwayne Johnson

  11703. "I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday." - Andrea Jeremiah

  11704. "You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born." - Myles Munroe

  11705. "I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'" - Larry David

  11706. "There was a TV show that came on every week called the 'Bowery Boys,' and there was a character named Muggsy. The way I played basketball and the nickname stuck with me. No one calls me Tyrone except one person: Mom!" - Muggsy Bogues

  11707. "I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung." - John McCormack

  11708. "I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside." - Johnny Galecki

  11709. "I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future." - John Cusack

  11710. "Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening." - Nipsey Hussle

  11711. "My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud." - Astro

  11712. "I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area." - Kane Brown

  11713. "As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props." - Nivin Pauly

  11714. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  11715. "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." - H. L. Mencken

  11716. "My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?" - Labrinth

  11717. "I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history." - Canelo Alvarez

  11718. "If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve." - Bindi Irwin

  11719. "I'm very naturally happy, quirky and positive." - Kiesza

  11720. "One and God make a majority." - Frederick Douglass

  11721. "I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen." - Erykah Badu

  11722. "I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun." - John John Florence

  11723. "My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid." - Jason Statham

  11724. "If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life." - Hudson Taylor

  11725. "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs." - Hunter S. Thompson

  11726. "My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my God!' So we went out, and I chose a red scooter." - Sandi Toksvig

  11727. "I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture." - Miranda Kerr

  11728. "When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'" - Stefan Hell

  11729. "We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  11730. "Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them." - Jack Canfield

  11731. "I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me." - Laura Haddock

  11732. "I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from." - Zoe Kravitz

  11733. "I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!" - Phillip Phillips

  11734. "When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it." - Mary-Kate Olsen

  11735. "My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson." - Joely Fisher

  11736. "Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have." - Suze Orman

  11737. "The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant

  11738. "I'm literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity." - Logic

  11739. "When you are injured and undergoing rehab, it is important to stay positive and not allow negative thoughts to creep in." - Bhuvneshwar Kumar

  11740. "The way I look at things, every religion is the same." - S. Sreesanth

  11741. "It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth." - Keanu Reeves

  11742. "Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning." - Tony Rock

  11743. "My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing." - Sarah Shahi

  11744. "I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it." - Max Greenfield

  11745. "The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding." - Monica Denise Brown

  11746. "If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  11747. "As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it." - Helen Hunt Jackson

  11748. "I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education." - Aldis Hodge

  11749. "Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  11750. "Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima." - Pablo Picasso

  11751. "I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana." - R. Kelly

  11752. "I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'" - Josh Peck

  11753. "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - Lewis Thomas

  11754. "I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'" - Marilyn Monroe

  11755. "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  11756. "No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate." - Matt Cameron

  11757. "Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life." - Ryan Guzman

  11758. "To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me." - Andrea Bocelli

  11759. "It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success." - George Washington Carver

  11760. "I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'" - Michael Weatherly

  11761. "Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was prepared to throw them on a fire to keep himself warm." - Mona Eltahawy

  11762. "I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well." - Alan Greenspan

  11763. "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

  11764. "The 'aha' moment came one to me one morning when I was applying my mascara, and I realized that the retirement crisis is actually a woman's crisis: Women live longer than men yet retire with less money." - Sallie Krawcheck

  11765. "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food." - Sandra Lee

  11766. "My real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, so a lot of people don't know that, but Rose is kind of special in my family as my grandma's name is Rosemary, my mom's name is Mary Rose, I'm Amanda Rose, my niece is Demi Rose." - Mandy Rose

  11767. "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." - Jewel

  11768. "It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things." - Tom DeLonge

  11769. "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." - ASAP Rocky

  11770. "Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists." - Bill O'Reilly

  11771. "God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'" - Rick Warren

  11772. "Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something." - Mark Manson

  11773. "I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete." - Alex Morgan

  11774. "I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday." - Dick Gephardt

  11775. "I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time." - Lee Min-ho

  11776. "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

  11777. "I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates." - Jodie Whittaker

  11778. "Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things." - Marie Rutkoski

  11779. "My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection." - Michael Jackson

  11780. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  11781. "Religion is the last refuge of human savagery." - Alfred North Whitehead

  11782. "For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies." - Joan Chen

  11783. "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." - Michael Dell

  11784. "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar." - Susan Orlean

  11785. "I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!" - Twinkle Khanna

  11786. "People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail." - Bob Newhart

  11787. "I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.'" - Dee Rees

  11788. "Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds." - Hilary Duff

  11789. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

  11790. "I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to." - Lucy Hale

  11791. "I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays." - Laila Rouass

  11792. "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - e. e. cummings

  11793. "I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God." - Tim Tebow

  11794. "There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color." - Jess Row

  11795. "For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity." - Theodore Melfi

  11796. "I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily." - Lil' Kim

  11797. "There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times." - Zac Efron

  11798. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

  11799. "Til the day I didn't play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members." - Virender Sehwag

  11800. "I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success." - Robbie Williams

  11801. "It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience." - Dave Haywood

  11802. "In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it." - Charles Caleb Colton

  11803. "My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives." - Chloe Benjamin

  11804. "I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better." - Jean Nidetch

  11805. "As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position." - Henrik Lundqvist

  11806. "I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas,' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love,' 'Love Me Tender,' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that." - Drake Milligan

  11807. "Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling." - Eddie Izzard

  11808. "I was born in Berlin, and when I was 6, my mom passed. When I was 9, I moved to near Washington, D.C., where I lived with my aunt and uncle. And then at 11, I moved back to Berlin. And then at 16, I got in trouble in school and moved back to the Washington area." - Bibi Bourelly

  11809. "I'm not God - but I am something similar." - Roberto Duran

  11810. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey

  11811. "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." - Vladimir Putin

  11812. "Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture." - Muhammad Yunus

  11813. "The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning." - Brian Grazer

  11814. "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work." - Patrick Swayze

  11815. "And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most." - Thomas Menino

  11816. "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance." - Alex Rodriguez

  11817. "There is still no cure for the common birthday." - John Glenn

  11818. "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." - Charles V

  11819. "There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  11820. "I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning." - Nikki Sixx

  11821. "God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament." - Evelyn Underhill

  11822. "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints." - Bobby McFerrin

  11823. "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

  11824. "So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends." - David Strathairn

  11825. "I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?" - Patti Davis

  11826. "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience." - Saint Ambrose

  11827. "I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period." - Albert Bandura

  11828. "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you." - Samuel Goldwyn

  11829. "No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  11830. "When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas." - Chris Brown

  11831. "Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise." - Patricia Richardson

  11832. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey

  11833. "When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'" - Hunter Hayes

  11834. "A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion." - Hugo Black

  11835. "Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary." - Bindi Irwin

  11836. "I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy." - Kevin James

  11837. "When you think positive, good things happen." - Matt Kemp

  11838. "You can't take it on that you're responsible for somebody else's well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up." - Jonah Marais

  11839. "There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles

  11840. "My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in." - Les Dawson

  11841. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth." - Voltaire

  11842. "At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive." - Paul Feig

  11843. "I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours." - Isabel Allende

  11844. "It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success." - Amy Tan

  11845. "I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll." - Walter O'Brien

  11846. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  11847. "I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it." - Aleksandar Hemon

  11848. "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

  11849. "When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different." - Maya Angelou

  11850. "I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there." - Maura Tierney

  11851. "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  11852. "Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers." - Peter Finch

  11853. "There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work." - Tori Spelling

  11854. "I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon." - Alan Rickman

  11855. "Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship." - Robert Webb

  11856. "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are." - Kirstie Alley

  11857. "And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time." - Jesus Christ

  11858. "Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments." - Gina Rodriguez

  11859. "Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance." - Muriel Spark

  11860. "For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph." - Thomas Mann

  11861. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  11862. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl." - Lady Gaga

  11863. "When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place." - Drew Busby

  11864. "My mom's a hustler. She a grinder." - Rick Ross

  11865. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

  11866. "I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke, and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success. I'm excited about what we can do together, and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories." - Unai Emery

  11867. "Twelve-step programs require people to accept their powerlessness and turn their lives over to God or another higher power. Many adolescents question religion, and in general teenagers aren't going to turn their lives over to anyone." - David Sheff

  11868. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are." - Joyce Giraud

  11869. "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." - ASAP Rocky

  11870. "Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh." - Steven Tyler

  11871. "'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone." - Harry Connick, Jr.

  11872. "A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it - and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a 'dirty bird.' She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it." - Wesley Morris

  11873. "My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas." - Kary Mullis

  11874. "My mom is definitely my rock." - Alicia Keys

  11875. "Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability." - Opal Tometi

  11876. "In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty." - James Anthony Froude

  11877. "I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around." - John Torode

  11878. "I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas." - Logan Mankins

  11879. "One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech." - Ian Brown

  11880. "Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children." - Billy Graham

  11881. "Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure." - Jerry Spinelli

  11882. "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Jeff Rich

  11883. "There's no religion but sex and music." - Sting

  11884. "Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back." - Mary Daly

  11885. "Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch." - Chang-Rae Lee

  11886. "My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness." - Sushant Singh Rajput

  11887. "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." - Katharine Whitehorn

  11888. "It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience." - Dave Haywood

  11889. "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." - Tanya Tucker

  11890. "To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success." - Jose Bergamin

  11891. "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu

  11892. "Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments." - Adrian Younge

  11893. "Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world." - Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  11894. "My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go." - Jonathan Keltz

  11895. "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell." - Bill Copeland

  11896. "Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus

  11897. "You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind." - Emmet Fox

  11898. "I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better." - Juliette Lewis

  11899. "I strongly believe that love as an emotion is sufficient for a girl and a boy to be together, and these societal norms like caste, creed or religion are all man-made." - Sara Khan

  11900. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  11901. "Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat." - Emma Stone

  11902. "Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family." - Gene Cernan

  11903. "At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must." - Devendra Banhart

  11904. "My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else." - Martin Scorsese

  11905. "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it." - Joan Lunden

  11906. "Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality." - Gordon Brown

  11907. "Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness." - Ellen G. White

  11908. "The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could." - Paul Hogan

  11909. "It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them." - Louis C. K.

  11910. "I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant." - Nia Vardalos

  11911. "Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen." - Adam Mansbach

  11912. "In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well." - Noah Schnapp

  11913. "You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you." - Jillian Michaels

  11914. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  11915. "I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking." - Carol Burnett

  11916. "Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course." - Max Verstappen

  11917. "Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else." - James Avery

  11918. "A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present." - Thomas Fuller

  11919. "One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue." - Mary Antin

  11920. "I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward." - Prince Royce

  11921. "From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution." - Christina Milian

  11922. "YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy." - Lindsey Stirling

  11923. "I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas." - Scotty McCreery

  11924. "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

  11925. "I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself." - Metro Boomin

  11926. "I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all." - John Daly

  11927. "People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'" - Twyla Tharp

  11928. "I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face." - Stephen Hopkins

  11929. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  11930. "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business." - Celine Dion

  11931. "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." - John Cheever

  11932. "It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

  11933. "God looks out for fools and babies." - Meshell Ndegeocello

  11934. "Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world." - George Eliot

  11935. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

  11936. "I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role." - Landon Donovan

  11937. "My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently." - Aaron Levie

  11938. "Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling." - Naveen Jain

  11939. "When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work." - Ryan Tedder

  11940. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion." - Robert Runcie

  11941. "O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind." - Helen Hunt Jackson

  11942. "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

  11943. "I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being." - Pope Francis

  11944. "The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out." - Solomon Burke

  11945. "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking

  11946. "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." - Elbert Hubbard

  11947. "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season." - Evan Davis

  11948. "A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude." - Richard M. DeVos

  11949. "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." - Arthur Helps

  11950. "Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street." - Graeme Souness

  11951. "If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds." - Brian Armstrong

  11952. "I keep a small - a very, very, very small circle. It's just me and my mom and my sister. And maybe Chris Paul." - Donovan Mitchell

  11953. "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." - Elbert Hubbard

  11954. "I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out." - Edward Burtynsky

  11955. "A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful." - Steve Harvey

  11956. "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day." - Dag Hammarskjold

  11957. "When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist." - Soledad O'Brien

  11958. "I remember going to see 'Starlight Express' almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the idea that you could rollerskate in a sort of scary old theatre... It was sort of a novel concept." - Harry Hadden-Paton

  11959. "I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university." - Jessica Raine

  11960. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln

  11961. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  11962. "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head." - Malcolm Mclaren

  11963. "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." - Phillips Brooks

  11964. "My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better." - DMX

  11965. "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel

  11966. "To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give." - Franka Potente

  11967. "Love the giver more than the gift." - Brigham Young

  11968. "The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

  11969. "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working." - Alice Hoffman

  11970. "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God." - Charles Stanley

  11971. "You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing." - Taylor Lautner

  11972. "My dear friend, clear your mind of cant." - Samuel Johnson

  11973. "My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I'm just really appreciative." - Mirai Nagasu

  11974. "I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning." - Harlan Ellison

  11975. "I don't see why we should alienate anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ethnicity." - Finn Balor

  11976. "South Park started as a little video Christmas card." - Joel Hodgson

  11977. "I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it." - Pamela Anderson

  11978. "The best revenge in the world is success." - Suge Knight

  11979. "It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God." - Michael Leunig

  11980. "Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything." - Nigel Mansell

  11981. "I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from." - Shakira

  11982. "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." - Thomas A. Edison

  11983. "I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!" - Cara Delevingne

  11984. "A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

  11985. "First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish." - Barbara Walters

  11986. "Yeah, Peckham's a mad place. Unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen throughout the day or the night. Today in the morning everything's cool. In the afternoon you're in mad beef. It's just normal isn't it? It's cool for us." - Giggs

  11987. "I like blockchain, I like cooking food and slow roasting a prime rib for Thanksgiving, and whatever else that you might find awkward or weird or whatever, then I'm me." - Spencer Dinwiddie

  11988. "I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me." - Gene Hackman

  11989. "When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt." - Alex Bregman

  11990. "I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area." - Kane Brown

  11991. "Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales." - Rose George

  11992. "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." - Thomas Wolfe

  11993. "I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing." - Mark Wahlberg

  11994. "If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life." - Alesha Dixon

  11995. "Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  11996. "We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them." - Johannes Stark

  11997. "I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times." - Lily James

  11998. "I love being a mom. I love singing. Why can't you have both? A lot of people would say you can't, but I think you can balance it; if you work hard, and you plan everything out properly, it works." - Kyla Reid

  11999. "I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation." - Pico Iyer

  12000. "I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing." - Gladys Knight

  12001. "Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped." - Charles Stanley

  12002. "I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious." - Mika

  12003. "I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump." - Kell Brook

  12004. "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us." - Joel Osteen

  12005. "I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life." - Gabourey Sidibe

  12006. "I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer." - George Ezra

  12007. "There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers." - John Oliver

  12008. "Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost." - Joyce Carol Oates

  12009. "Tahoe is a magical place full of positive energy, beautiful mountains, and lakes all around. It's home for me and feels so good to be there." - Jamie Anderson

  12010. "Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  12011. "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians." - Gary North

  12012. "There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'" - Tom Sturridge

  12013. "For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment." - Pierre de Coubertin

  12014. "Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning." - Bonnie Bassler

  12015. "I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up." - Kirsten Dunst

  12016. "A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother." - Jane Fonda

  12017. "I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23." - Mary Steenburgen

  12018. "Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you." - Roy Jones Jr.

  12019. "In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams." - Sergio Leone

  12020. "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." - Thomas Jefferson

  12021. "My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian." - Christie Brinkley

  12022. "If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  12023. "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity." - Cesar Chavez

  12024. "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress." - Kelly Clarkson

  12025. "Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know." - Sylvie Guillem

  12026. "My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day." - Victor Cruz

  12027. "Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats." - Amos Bronson Alcott

  12028. "For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me." - Leslie Jordan

  12029. "God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone." - Ziggy Marley

  12030. "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary." - Bob Dylan

  12031. "Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends." - Alphonsus Liguori

  12032. "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity." - Konrad Adenauer

  12033. "Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  12034. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." - Abraham Lincoln

  12035. "If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too." - Ridley Scott

  12036. "The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols." - Ian Watson

  12037. "I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else." - Kate DiCamillo

  12038. "The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed." - Deval Patrick

  12039. "My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it's really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I'll have my tree up!" - Gena Lee Nolin

  12040. "I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity." - Magic Johnson

  12041. "It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday." - Nino Schurter

  12042. "Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else." - James Avery

  12043. "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!" - Laurie Anderson

  12044. "I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'" - Vincent Rodriguez III

  12045. "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams." - Ben Carson

  12046. "My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits." - Amy Chua

  12047. "Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything." - Nigel Mansell

  12048. "It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it." - Zack Snyder

  12049. "President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama." - John J. McLaughlin

  12050. "I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I'm now a mom, and I'm going to find other things to do with my life." - Beth Phoenix

  12051. "As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy." - Al Yankovic

  12052. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - Francis of Assisi

  12053. "Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market." - Debi Mazar

  12054. "I was very sheltered growing up, so the only real beauty exposure I had was my mom. And still, to this day, she is my number 1 beauty icon." - Manny MUA

  12055. "My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe." - Anton du Beke

  12056. "The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference." - Naveen Jain

  12057. "For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road." - Bubba Wallace

  12058. "You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher." - Joan Cusack

  12059. "I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid." - Mike Shinoda

  12060. "Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we're doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had." - Trish Regan

  12061. "I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan." - AB de Villiers

  12062. "God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over." - Fantasia Barrino

  12063. "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington

  12064. "From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." - Guru Nanak

  12065. "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." - Jean Kerr

  12066. "I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely." - L'Wren Scott

  12067. "Chuck Lorre and everyone else on 'Mom' did such a great job of balancing that line that rides tragedy and comedy. They make you cry, and then they make you crack up about it." - Emily Osment

  12068. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  12069. "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard

  12070. "I have always said that I do not pay much attention to what is said. Not to the positive and not to the negative." - Thomas Muller

  12071. "I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits." - Lewis Howes

  12072. "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

  12073. "Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time." - Jo Nesbo

  12074. "Aye aye, I'm not one of these people that hate Christmas. Some people think it's all fake, but I like that kind of thing. It's like Las Vegas. I know this isnae really the Eiffel Tower and that isnae really the Statue of Liberty, but it's just a bit of fun." - Limmy

  12075. "I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?" - Melanie Griffith

  12076. "Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching." - Rory McIlroy

  12077. "New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way." - Klaus Schwab

  12078. "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won." - Paul Merton

  12079. "Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present." - Mireille Guiliano

  12080. "An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty." - Richard Branson

  12081. "I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times." - Lily James

  12082. "My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job." - Ed Bradley

  12083. "God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with." - Billy Graham

  12084. "It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues." - Philip Gibbs

  12085. "I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it." - Bill Gates

  12086. "Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be." - Joel Osteen

  12087. "Surround yourself with positive people." - Melanie Fiona

  12088. "I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it." - Max Greenfield

  12089. "The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence." - Moses Mendelssohn

  12090. "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Walter Scott

  12091. "Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants." - Toby Jones

  12092. "For the sexuality thing, I really feel like the reason I speak so blunt about it is because I held it in for so long. I never told my mom. I never told my family. I kept it to myself. Now, I'm happy with who I am. Either you accept it, or you don't. There's a lot of rappers out there that's like that, but no one's stepping up." - Young M.A

  12093. "If I'd lived in Bristol, I'd probably be doing building site stuff, plastering. Probably not the plastering. It would have been mixing. I could always get work from friends who did construction. But I wasn't into getting up at seven in the morning." - Tricky

  12094. "I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work." - Stephen Daldry

  12095. "Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion." - Ernie Harwell

  12096. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  12097. "Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm." - Jean Paul

  12098. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  12099. "The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas." - Stanley A. McChrystal

  12100. "When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted." - Alan King

  12101. "Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish." - Bradley Wiggins

  12102. "If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to." - Joe Moore

  12103. "For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present." - Karen Robards

  12104. "There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise." - Derek Walcott

  12105. "In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934." - Jack Steinberger

  12106. "The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator." - Jim Lehrer

  12107. "The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance." - Kylian Mbappe

  12108. "I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative." - Chloe Sevigny

  12109. "Me and my girlfriend don't have any family in Ipswich, so we were thinking of what we could do to fill our time on Christmas Day. We thought about feeding the homeless and we phoned up the church that we eventually went to and asked if we could help." - Tyrone Mings

  12110. "I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired." - Nicolas Ghesquiere

  12111. "I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!" - Hoda Kotb

  12112. "I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks." - Ekta Kapoor

  12113. "One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'" - Gian Carlo Menotti

  12114. "My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating." - Meghan Markle

  12115. "The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years." - Declan Donnelly

  12116. "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints." - Bobby McFerrin

  12117. "What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear." - Michael T. Flynn

  12118. "I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed." - Jonathan Krisel

  12119. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  12120. "There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'" - Chuck Schumer

  12121. "You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense." - Rick Warren

  12122. "Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon." - John C. Reilly

  12123. "God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple." - Jean-Claude Van Damme

  12124. "Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations." - Swami Sivananda

  12125. "I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid." - David Lambert

  12126. "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." - J. B. Priestley

  12127. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  12128. "We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life." - Paul Washer

  12129. "I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me." - Juice Wrld

  12130. "Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement." - Tiger Woods

  12131. "I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning." - Hugh Grant

  12132. "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." - Khalil Gibran

  12133. "Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress." - Shawn Achor

  12134. "They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro

  12135. "On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea." - Patricia Cornwell

  12136. "On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas." - Eden Sher

  12137. "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'" - Demetri Martin

  12138. "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it." - Jules Renard

  12139. "I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is." - Geoff Stults

  12140. "My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me." - Nate Robinson

  12141. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  12142. "Good morning is a contradiction of terms." - Jim Davis

  12143. "I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown." - Finn Wolfhard

  12144. "We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong." - Jameela Jamil

  12145. "I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month." - Jeffrey Tambor

  12146. "I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect." - Farrah Abraham

  12147. "Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm." - Sebastian Coe

  12148. "Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now." - Mo Rocca

  12149. "If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed." - Chris Collins

  12150. "I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing." - Bobby Keys

  12151. "Only stupid people are changed by success." - Jurgen Klopp

  12152. "There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best." - Cristiano Ronaldo

  12153. "God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel." - Charles Stanley

  12154. "I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song." - Patty Smyth

  12155. "I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths." - Gina Rodriguez

  12156. "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." - Junipero Serra

  12157. "Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein." - John Lanchester

  12158. "It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down." - Mark McKinnon

  12159. "The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape." - Samuel Johnson

  12160. "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights." - Jay London

  12161. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  12162. "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day." - Paul Henderson

  12163. "MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it." - John Torode

  12164. "Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" - Karen Armstrong

  12165. "Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  12166. "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." - Tommy Lasorda

  12167. "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." - Albert Einstein

  12168. "I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz." - Toks Olagundoye

  12169. "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda

  12170. "I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind." - Robert Fulghum

  12171. "I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing." - Ella Henderson

  12172. "I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future." - John Cusack

  12173. "My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  12174. "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not." - James Russell Lowell

  12175. "I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success." - Christie Hefner

  12176. "I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success." - Romelu Lukaku

  12177. "Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight." - Lillian Hellman

  12178. "Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options." - Sharon Salzberg

  12179. "Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking. It's not crappy stuff that doesn't work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it's like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer." - John Carmack

  12180. "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom." - Jewel

  12181. "God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease." - Bernie Siegel

  12182. "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise." - George Washington Carver

  12183. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." - Robert Browning

  12184. "I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk." - Lynda Barry

  12185. "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." - Audrey Hepburn

  12186. "All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way." - Mary Berry

  12187. "Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide." - Taiye Selasi

  12188. "I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low." - Tom Hiddleston

  12189. "The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." - Christopher McCandless

  12190. "Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree." - T. S. Eliot

  12191. "The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist." - Richard Coles

  12192. "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - e. e. cummings

  12193. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  12194. "God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from." - Erwin McManus

  12195. "The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be." - Monica Johnson

  12196. "I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart." - Jason Derulo

  12197. "I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything from my weight to my fertility was held up for discussion. And then I was the person that could garner some kind of positive outcome, by taking on the role of vice chairman of the British Fashion Council and becoming an activist of body image." - Erin O'Connor

  12198. "So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my God, I feel guilty about what happened to black Americans. Rather it is the fact that in relation to black Americans you lack moral authority." - Shelby Steele

  12199. "No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer." - Jane Elliot

  12200. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  12201. "Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept." - J. C. Ryle

  12202. "'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song." - Ally Brooke

  12203. "I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor." - Joan Rivers

  12204. "The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you." - Nancy Astor

  12205. "I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself." - Venus Williams

  12206. "I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up." - Kirsten Dunst

  12207. "Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie." - Sayed Kashua

  12208. "To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters." - Brenda Song

  12209. "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound." - Chelsea Clinton

  12210. "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  12211. "The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance." - Sun Yat-sen

  12212. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

  12213. "The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields." - Joe Barton

  12214. "Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there." - Christopher Columbus

  12215. "I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd." - John Ridley

  12216. "My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom." - Brianna Wu

  12217. "When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God." - T. B. Joshua

  12218. "I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party." - Kirstie Alley

  12219. "The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal." - Yair Lapid

  12220. "My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'" - Michael Ealy

  12221. "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." - Audre Lorde

  12222. "I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot." - Anthony Wayne

  12223. "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen Covey

  12224. "I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year." - Tom Brady

  12225. "All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God." - Pope Benedict XVI

  12226. "There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie." - Ice Cube

  12227. "I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own." - Khloe Kardashian

  12228. "I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade." - Jonathan Groff

  12229. "I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God." - Hassan Rouhani

  12230. "Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning." - Bonnie Bassler

  12231. "One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the 'Rambo III' score. I was not allowed to see 'Rambo,' but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie." - Dan Trachtenberg

  12232. "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars." - E. M. Forster

  12233. "Part of the tradition of the Christmas season is every night my son and I hit the town and look for every Christmas light we can find. This is something my son absolutely adores." - Bart Millard

  12234. "Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  12235. "I always want to keep my skin clean when I get up in the morning, and I use sunscreen before I go out to the field." - Christen Press

  12236. "People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers." - Marc Andreessen

  12237. "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies." - Erich Fromm

  12238. "I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint." - Rodney King

  12239. "I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year." - Donald Hall

  12240. "By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation." - Gabby Douglas

  12241. "My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs." - Nick Diaz

  12242. "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  12243. "Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!" - Joyce Meyer

  12244. "It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire." - Cate Campbell

  12245. "To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out." - Amber Le Bon

  12246. "We Indians are musical- and dance-minded people. If a child is born or on a wedding, birthday, we dance. But when a song starts unreasonably, it irritates me." - Waheeda Rehman

  12247. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

  12248. "Think with your whole body." - Taisen Deshimaru

  12249. "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard

  12250. "I'm a person who watches TV all the time - all the time; I love TV. And I really think that the media heavily influences how we as a society behave towards each other. And one of the things that I find to be lacking on television are positive images of diversity." - Maysoon Zayid

  12251. "My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine." - Rza

  12252. "I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!'" - Gail Honeyman

  12253. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  12254. "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name." - Harriet Ann Jacobs

  12255. "I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me." - Shemar Moore

  12256. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin

  12257. "All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction." - Richard P. Feynman

  12258. "Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion." - Israel Zangwill

  12259. "I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable." - Todd Barry

  12260. "I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide." - Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

  12261. "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." - Jesse Ventura

  12262. "The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ." - John Piper

  12263. "When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did." - Hans Matheson

  12264. "You change your life by changing your heart." - Max Lucado

  12265. "This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide." - Anatoly Karpov

  12266. "The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'" - John Gourley

  12267. "I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence." - Angela Bowie

  12268. "I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something." - Andy Biersack

  12269. "Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible." - Lauren Graham

  12270. "I'm trying to spread positive vibes." - YBN Nahmir

  12271. "God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty." - Peter Marshall

  12272. "I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything." - G-Dragon

  12273. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  12274. "Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want." - John Waters

  12275. "There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast." - Brian Koslow

  12276. "I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions." - William T. Vollmann

  12277. "One night I couldn't sleep at three in the morning and I thought, I'm going to color-coordinate my closet. And I did. There's a whole system. It goes from white to black and then all the colors in the middle. Then it goes by tank tops to T-shirts to long sleeves, and then it goes to the next color. Then it goes to sweaters the same way." - Madison Keys

  12278. "You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver." - Hannah Kent

  12279. "I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?" - Oscar Nunez

  12280. "You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach

  12281. "Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G." - Michelle Phan

  12282. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  12283. "United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'" - Antonio Guterres

  12284. "I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children." - Diane von Furstenberg

  12285. "It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges." - Wylie Dufresne

  12286. "My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know?" - Pete Carroll

  12287. "My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again." - Min Jin Lee

  12288. "The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home." - Cheo Hodari Coker

  12289. "Now that I think about it, my 40th birthday was the most anxiety I've ever had, and my wedding was also the second time I've had that much anxiety. So I'm starting to realize that I can't be throwing these big bash parties because I need to own that I get anxiety with a lot of people diverting their attention to me." - Jeannie Mai

  12290. "I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up." - Nas

  12291. "I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow." - Ice Cube

  12292. "We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity." - Logan Browning

  12293. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  12294. "Winning is kinda the cure to all things; to getting followers, fans, success. You've just gotta win." - Hailie Deegan

  12295. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  12296. "Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'" - Elif Batuman

  12297. "Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God." - Pope Francis

  12298. "My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what." - Mandy Moore

  12299. "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." - Saint Augustine

  12300. "When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place." - Margaret Cho

  12301. "That is what Christmas should be about, I think - togetherness and playfulness. It's like a game." - Billy Howle

  12302. "The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning." - David Petraeus

  12303. "My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies." - Hannah Simone

  12304. "Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week." - Harley Pasternak

  12305. "My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to." - Willem Dafoe

  12306. "My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory." - Rory McIlroy

  12307. "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

  12308. "For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot." - Rolf Harris

  12309. "Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two." - Navjot Singh Sidhu

  12310. "I wouldn't wish it on people but there is a positive side to a near-death experience. People used to ask me do you fancy doing this or that - and it was like I had a file of reasons in my head for not doing things. I would riffle through it until I found one. But I've dropped that." - Bob Mortimer

  12311. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  12312. "If things aren't going so well, I try to stay positive and not give in to negative thoughts." - Rosanna Arquette

  12313. "I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother." - Sheridan Smith

  12314. "Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give." - Adam Neumann

  12315. "In the world of online invitations, nothing is sacred. People will invite all 500 of their 'closest' friends to their birthday party - and 485 of those people will RSVP 'yes' without intending to show up." - Susannah Cahalan

  12316. "Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining." - Anupam Kher

  12317. "I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am." - Terry Wogan

  12318. "Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art." - Ezra Pound

  12319. "You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it." - Julia Fox

  12320. "I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am." - Vijay

  12321. "I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it." - Claire Danes

  12322. "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare

  12323. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." - Jesus Christ

  12324. "With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me." - Rodney Dangerfield

  12325. "Don't just count your years, make your years count." - George Meredith

  12326. "Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago." - Ben Feldman

  12327. "People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth." - River Viiperi

  12328. "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?" - Emma Goldman

  12329. "My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema." - Dan Schulman

  12330. "My mom was always there. Even if she got off work late sometimes, I still went to practice, whether I was 30 minutes late, 45 minutes late... I was still going to practice." - Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

  12331. "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning." - Carl Sandburg

  12332. "From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture." - Joachim Low

  12333. "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true." - Thomas Paine

  12334. "I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere." - Philip Green

  12335. "Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun." - Chris Hardwick

  12336. "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." - Wallace Stevens

  12337. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  12338. "I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'" - Troy Polamalu

  12339. "My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing." - Steve Breen

  12340. "I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger." - Jacob Latimore

  12341. "Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed." - Jenna Wortham

  12342. "My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes." - DMX

  12343. "The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!" - Sherry Yard

  12344. "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense." - Joyce Meyer

  12345. "I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home." - Don Everly

  12346. "Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny." - Hilary Farr

  12347. "As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better." - Stan Wawrinka

  12348. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace." - Muhammad Ali

  12349. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!" - Alexander Pope

  12350. "I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday." - Prabhas

  12351. "It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it." - Susan Hill

  12352. "Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday." - O. J. Simpson

  12353. "We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'" - Vicki Lawrence

  12354. "Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done." - Robin S. Sharma

  12355. "'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth." - Annie Besant

  12356. "No electricity, no hot water, no heat - at times, we struggled. We'd wake up in the morning and wash with water we heated on a hot plate. And we'd go to bed at night wearing skull caps, sweat shirts, and gloves." - Jalen Rose

  12357. "One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff." - John Waters

  12358. "The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek." - N. T. Wright

  12359. "I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up." - Natalie Cole

  12360. "My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits." - Amy Chua

  12361. "I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio." - Charles Leclerc

  12362. "Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would lead the wedding song regularly, and she isn't a professional singer. Even as an audience member, you're expected to clap and sing the response to the lead." - Kelela

  12363. "I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?" - John Piper

  12364. "At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy." - Leon Bourgeois

  12365. "Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology." - Reza Aslan

  12366. "I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday." - Amy Weber

  12367. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." - Joel Osteen

  12368. "I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more." - Iker Casillas

  12369. "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion." - Patrick Henry

  12370. "Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics." - Sean Combs

  12371. "My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears." - Riff Raff

  12372. "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success." - David Joseph Schwartz

  12373. "I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening." - Gabrielle Bernstein

  12374. "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - e. e. cummings

  12375. "I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'" - Zoe Bell

  12376. "My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies." - Inbar Lavi

  12377. "For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important." - Aretha Franklin

  12378. "I've been asking my partner for a dog for a while and she kept saying no. She was obviously keeping it for a birthday surprise, and when I came home from Rotherham, Hugo was sat on the sofa waiting for me. It was a really nice surprise." - Daniel James

  12379. "It's so good to get up in the morning and see a donkey - they're just unbelievably beautiful and funny. My donkey Hector laughs when I walk towards him; he knows mortality when he sees it." - John Nettles

  12380. "I was practically raised with Christmas music." - Brian Stokes Mitchell

  12381. "A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love." - Gustavo Dudamel

  12382. "One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'" - Paul Dini

  12383. "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." - Albert Einstein

  12384. "My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me." - Don Lemon

  12385. "Fans are always going out of their way and doing so much, be it my birthday or any festival or occasion or most of the time nothing at all and there couldn't be a better way than connecting with them personally and giving them access to my world." - Priyamani

  12386. "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope

  12387. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey

  12388. "Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them." - Richard G. Scott

  12389. "Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!" - Joyce Meyer

  12390. "Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time." - Emil Nolde

  12391. "I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love." - Olivia De Havilland

  12392. "I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening." - Daryl Hannah

  12393. "I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion." - Barry Williams

  12394. "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." - Bobby Moynihan

  12395. "My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  12396. "I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." - Roger Federer

  12397. "God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet." - Neale Donald Walsch

  12398. "The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand." - Charles Eastman

  12399. "That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality." - Robert Sapolsky

  12400. "I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, 'What a waste of energy.' If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself." - Conor McGregor

  12401. "I believe that God has blessed me in immeasurable ways so that I can, in return, bless and help others." - Karen Civil

  12402. "If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago." - Martin Seligman

  12403. "Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter." - Anne Lamott

  12404. "Yes, Leander locked me out. I'd gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out." - Rhea Pillai

  12405. "Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory." - Will Durant

  12406. "I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together." - Queen Elizabeth II

  12407. "Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion." - Samuel Gompers

  12408. "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." - Harvey Weinstein

  12409. "My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies." - Hannah Simone

  12410. "I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam." - Art Malik

  12411. "One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech." - Ian Brown

  12412. "Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions." - Mircea Eliade

  12413. "Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'" - Alan Colmes

  12414. "There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination." - Jeb Bush

  12415. "I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school." - Brunello Cucinelli

  12416. "After marriage, my love won't be divided between my mom and my wife. It will be doubled. My mom has always been as much my hero as my father." - Tiger Shroff

  12417. "Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music." - Nate Dogg

  12418. "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  12419. "I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global." - Biz Stone

  12420. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

  12421. "Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything." - Nigel Mansell

  12422. "Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them." - Thalia

  12423. "I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues." - Cal Ripken, Jr.

  12424. "Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house." - Elizabeth Warren

  12425. "New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages." - Lawrence Kudlow

  12426. "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students." - Solomon Ortiz

  12427. "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C. S. Lewis

  12428. "Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas." - Sabrina Carpenter

  12429. "Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God." - Ernest Holmes

  12430. "You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense." - Rick Warren

  12431. "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  12432. "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac

  12433. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey

  12434. "I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties." - Lil Pump

  12435. "I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling." - Kimberley Nixon

  12436. "I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life." - David Furnish

  12437. "I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children." - Mary J. Blige

  12438. "I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday." - Peter O'Toole

  12439. "Life is God's novel. Let him write it." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

  12440. "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still." - Phillips Brooks

  12441. "Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts." - Kate Christensen

  12442. "I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney." - Kate Middleton

  12443. "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

  12444. "As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  12445. "Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably." - Gerard Way

  12446. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou

  12447. "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner." - Michael Symon

  12448. "People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning." - John Scalzi

  12449. "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me." - Ellen Glasgow

  12450. "You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life." - Martha Stewart

  12451. "My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought." - Allen Iverson

  12452. "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot

  12453. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  12454. "When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards." - Isabella Rossellini

  12455. "I like to start my day after noon. I'm not a morning person at all!" - Sara Sampaio

  12456. "Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods." - Howard Florey

  12457. "Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction." - Daniel Levitin

  12458. "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual." - Sela Ward

  12459. "Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future." - John Gokongwei

  12460. "This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly." - Alesha Dixon

  12461. "In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary." - Lech Walesa

  12462. "When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, 'I'm 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I'm going to do this.'" - Sasha Banks

  12463. "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  12464. "With the pandemic crushing the world, I pray for everyone's health and well-being. I wish the world heals fast. Every morning I wake up with the hope that a vaccine gets invented soon to combat Covid-19." - Koel Mallick

  12465. "Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough

  12466. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." - Buddha

  12467. "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe." - Norman Vincent Peale

  12468. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

  12469. "Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people." - Pele

  12470. "Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space." - Ben Okri

  12471. "No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back." - Elizabeth Holmes

  12472. "The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay." - Gautam Singhania

  12473. "T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." - Clement Clarke Moore

  12474. "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms." - Ellen G. White

  12475. "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma Gandhi

  12476. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  12477. "Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect." - Shaquille O'Neal

  12478. "I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die." - Lee Trevino

  12479. "When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?" - Lisa Loeb

  12480. "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff." - Jonathan Davis

  12481. "In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys." - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  12482. "You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret." - Kid Rock

  12483. "Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!" - Ozzy Osbourne

  12484. "I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global." - Biz Stone

  12485. "I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it." - Johnny Iuzzini

  12486. "There's definitely something special about a working birthday, it's the perfect way to bring in the new birthday year!" - Diana Penty

  12487. "I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me." - Mike Huckabee

  12488. "When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer." - Rico Nasty

  12489. "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure." - Zig Ziglar

  12490. "Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects." - Ian Ziering

  12491. "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost

  12492. "I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We hang out. We go to different cities together. We like the same music. I think that's why he appreciates his mom and me so much - we treat him like a friend." - Jo Koy

  12493. "I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative." - John Cena

  12494. "As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive." - LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  12495. "She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong." - Mae West

  12496. "I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister." - Sara Sheridan

  12497. "I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but it's really those small things that make the big difference." - Chad Hurley

  12498. "My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing." - Christina Aguilera

  12499. "Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone." - Melissa Etheridge

  12500. "I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either." - Alex Turner

  12501. "I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'" - Stewart Udall

  12502. "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day." - Dag Hammarskjold

  12503. "Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around." - Yoko Ono

  12504. "I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure." - Lynn Coady

  12505. "When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write." - Ernest Hemingway

  12506. "My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning." - Gena Lee Nolin

  12507. "I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame." - Billy Eichner

  12508. "Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have." - Rod Lurie

  12509. "Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future." - Charles B. Rangel

  12510. "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard

  12511. "To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex." - Ha-Joon Chang

  12512. "It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it." - Ben Stein

  12513. "My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts." - Jordan Fisher

  12514. "My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing." - Christina Aguilera

  12515. "The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence." - Moses Mendelssohn

  12516. "Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike." - Justin Rosenstein

  12517. "Surfing is my religion, if I have one." - Kelly Slater

  12518. "Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas." - Lewis Black

  12519. "I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people." - Nneka

  12520. "I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?" - Omar Epps

  12521. "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?" - Andrea Jung

  12522. "Heaven means to be one with God." - Confucius

  12523. "Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters." - Jesse Jackson

  12524. "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed." - Mark Warner

  12525. "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion." - Scott Adams

  12526. "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." - George Allen, Sr.

  12527. "When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls." - Lucy Punch

  12528. "When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did." - M.I.A.

  12529. "You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity." - Bill Gates

  12530. "And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans." - Barack Obama

  12531. "We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good." - Robert Winston

  12532. "Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic." - Hu Shih

  12533. "There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion." - Patrick Wilson

  12534. "Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude." - Michelle Obama

  12535. "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong." - John Cheever

  12536. "Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone." - Asif Kapadia

  12537. "Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard." - Mayte Garcia

  12538. "I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch." - Carlos Mencia

  12539. "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." - Wayne Gretzky

  12540. "We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party." - Chad Gilbert

  12541. "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed." - Patrick Henry

  12542. "In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard." - John Grisham

  12543. "I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you." - Michelle Phan

  12544. "Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped." - Charles Stanley

  12545. "My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either." - Sharmila Tagore

  12546. "My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson." - Joely Fisher

  12547. "I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing." - Gary Burghoff

  12548. "Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas." - Charles Dickens

  12549. "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." - Martina Hingis

  12550. "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude." - Michael Jordan

  12551. "My mom's a hustler. She a grinder." - Rick Ross

  12552. "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain

  12553. "My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice." - Iggy Pop

  12554. "There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties." - Ronnie Coleman

  12555. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  12556. "The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday." - Marcus Samuelsson

  12557. "Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas." - Gil Marks

  12558. "Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational." - Kevin Plank

  12559. "One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth." - Zooey Deschanel

  12560. "The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need." - Bruce Springsteen

  12561. "I kind of have a uniform for office parties and Christmas parties. What I do is put on a basic tuxedo shirt with a solid navy or black tie, a tweed jacket, a red pocket square, and some sort of fancy shoe or velvet slipper." - Michael Bastian

  12562. "I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic." - Steve Martin

  12563. "I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23." - Mary Steenburgen

  12564. "Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels." - Shari Arison

  12565. "I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best." - Jurgen Klopp

  12566. "I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile." - Stella Young

  12567. "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." - Wendy Cope

  12568. "Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv." - DJ Khaled

  12569. "Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both." - Prithviraj Sukumaran

  12570. "I couldn't live without tea. I have two cups in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon and one in the evening - Assam with milk and sugar. It has to be leaf tea - no bags - and drunk from a china cup." - Gilbert O'Sullivan

  12571. "When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed." - Stephen Hendry

  12572. "Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life." - Tony Evans

  12573. "I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me." - Marcus Samuelsson

  12574. "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." - Dave Barry

  12575. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." - Abraham Lincoln

  12576. "Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." - Michael Jordan

  12577. "I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years." - Mark Bridges

  12578. "I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted." - Dove Cameron

  12579. "I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ." - Ignatius of Antioch

  12580. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin

  12581. "My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory." - Rory McIlroy

  12582. "My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding." - Ray Lewis

  12583. "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." - Jim Rohn

  12584. "Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body." - Valentina Zelyaeva

  12585. "Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym." - Rachel Nichols

  12586. "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true." - Thomas Paine

  12587. "Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different." - Cindy Williams

  12588. "I think we just need to keep moving forward in a positive way." - Ray J

  12589. "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today." - Anna Deavere Smith

  12590. "You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you." - Ethel Waters

  12591. "I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11." - Miranda Hart

  12592. "How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood." - Harold Ramis

  12593. "At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business." - Susan Wojcicki

  12594. "The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say." - Sam Walton

  12595. "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better." - Harvey Mackay

  12596. "A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live." - Elizabeth Edwards

  12597. "My mother always bought our birthday gifts." - Bruce Eric Kaplan

  12598. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley

  12599. "My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her." - Guy Johnson

  12600. "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." - Audre Lorde

  12601. "True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people." - Myles Munroe

  12602. "The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm." - George Osborne

  12603. "I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership." - Zoe Sugg

  12604. "Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person." - Shepard Fairey

  12605. "Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter." - Anne Lamott

  12606. "When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein

  12607. "I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman." - Jami Attenberg

  12608. "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12609. "It's like a cosmic joke that people dream to perform in front of a huge crowd. But it is a welcomed challenge. I hope I always have that positive apprehension." - Julien Baker

  12610. "Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested." - Reshma Saujani

  12611. "There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them." - Michael Moore

  12612. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller

  12613. "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh." - Lord Acton

  12614. "In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment." - Jenna Dewan

  12615. "The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God." - El DeBarge

  12616. "I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things." - Dick Cheney

  12617. "What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference." - Andrew Lloyd Webber

  12618. "America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different." - Adora Svitak

  12619. "My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written." - Michael Dirda

  12620. "Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things." - Nick Jonas

  12621. "I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife." - Ree Drummond

  12622. "My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money." - Megan Fox

  12623. "The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." - Empedocles

  12624. "If your mom is still around, you're so lucky." - M. J. Rose

  12625. "Don't just count your years, make your years count." - George Meredith

  12626. "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

  12627. "Drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Try not to stress. Positive thoughts only!" - Dahyun

  12628. "We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country." - Nicky Morgan

  12629. "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God." - E. Stanley Jones

  12630. "My name is Linus, and I am your God." - Linus Torvalds

  12631. "When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way." - Richard Quest

  12632. "We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives." - Gordon Brown

  12633. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  12634. "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass

  12635. "When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it." - Baron Davis

  12636. "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

  12637. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  12638. "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God." - E. Stanley Jones

  12639. "I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam." - Art Malik

  12640. "'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting." - Zachary Knighton

  12641. "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." - Mahatma Gandhi

  12642. "Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'." - Lindsay Lohan

  12643. "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." - Martin Luther

  12644. "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success." - James Dyson

  12645. "My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age." - Toby Keith

  12646. "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music." - Lenny Kravitz

  12647. "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get." - Kevin Spacey

  12648. "A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction." - Richard M. DeVos

  12649. "I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin

  12650. "If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive." - Alice Waters

  12651. "You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything." - McKayla Maroney

  12652. "I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention." - Graham Elliot

  12653. "Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines." - Gloria Trevi

  12654. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!" - Alexander Pope

  12655. "I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God." - Robert Browning

  12656. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

  12657. "Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever." - Trey Parker

  12658. "There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'" - Brie Larson

  12659. "There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out." - Jay Samit

  12660. "Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers." - Marillyn Hewson

  12661. "The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right." - Paul Downs Colaizzo

  12662. "I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed." - Big Freedia

  12663. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." - George W. Bush

  12664. "Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be." - Joel Osteen

  12665. "And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity." - Nolan Ryan

  12666. "Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies." - Blake Lively

  12667. "While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable." - Ken Ham

  12668. "I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving." - Jay Rock

  12669. "My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible." - Jimmy Butler

  12670. "My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side." - Bode Miller

  12671. "The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be." - Monica Johnson

  12672. "'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video." - Megan Nicole

  12673. "Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc." - Friedrich Engels

  12674. "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else." - Jessie J

  12675. "Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside." - Willard Scott

  12676. "I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people." - Pete Cashmore

  12677. "My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that." - Vincent Gallo

  12678. "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost

  12679. "Part of the tradition of the Christmas season is every night my son and I hit the town and look for every Christmas light we can find. This is something my son absolutely adores." - Bart Millard

  12680. "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." - Ben Stein

  12681. "God save us from religion." - David Icke

  12682. "It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important." - Zig Ziglar

  12683. "I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning." - Nikki Sixx

  12684. "My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day." - Bryce Harper

  12685. "I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it." - Johnny Iuzzini

  12686. "Breakfast is my favorite way to start off the day. This is usually what I order every morning on set: egg whites scrambled with broccoli and a side of well-done turkey bacon. Sometimes I add a bit of feta cheese." - Cassie Scerbo

  12687. "Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person." - Kellie Pickler

  12688. "If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." - Emmet Fox

  12689. "There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself." - Dave Davies

  12690. "You can be experiencing the worst, most gut-wrenching grief and still laugh or feel something positive or even fall in love, and it doesn't diminish the depth and sincerity of your grief." - Jennifer Ashton

  12691. "In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere." - Naftali Bennett

  12692. "The overall vision for 'Utopia' was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a pastel space sauce to capture the uber positive energy of the music." - Kerli

  12693. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  12694. "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God." - Smokey Robinson

  12695. "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

  12696. "The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion." - Nigel Lawson

  12697. "I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift." - Mos Def

  12698. "We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!" - Nico Santos

  12699. "European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion." - Virginia Postrel

  12700. "It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things." - Bindi Irwin

  12701. "Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!" - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  12702. "God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion." - Huston Smith

  12703. "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." - Robert A. Heinlein

  12704. "Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success." - William J. H. Boetcker

  12705. "Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history." - Will Poulter

  12706. "Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success." - Shawn Achor

  12707. "It was shortly before my 18th birthday when I came out and admitted that I was gay." - Conchita Wurst

  12708. "My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat." - Ben McLemore

  12709. "Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better." - Jerry Lewis

  12710. "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me." - Diego Maradona

  12711. "Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood." - Christopher Columbus

  12712. "Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive." - Sam Hunt

  12713. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." - Joyce Brothers

  12714. "Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me." - Karl Lagerfeld

  12715. "I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses." - Ja Rule

  12716. "I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition." - Stephen Hawking

  12717. "All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many." - Ulrich Beck

  12718. "Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space." - Ben Okri

  12719. "Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment." - Madonna Ciccone

  12720. "Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do." - Avi

  12721. "I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God." - Laurence Fishburne

  12722. "Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be." - George A. Sheehan

  12723. "I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman." - King James I

  12724. "Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation." - Pierre Nanterme

  12725. "You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools." - Mike Gallagher

  12726. "I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do." - Blake Farenthold

  12727. "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?" - Stephen Colbert

  12728. "Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational." - Taboo

  12729. "God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character." - John Ortberg

  12730. "Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone." - Rollo May

  12731. "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire

  12732. "Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live." - Kevin Bacon

  12733. "I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling." - Kimberley Nixon

  12734. "It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time." - Mal Peet

  12735. "Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand." - Lecrae

  12736. "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day." - George Allen, Sr.

  12737. "God looks after children, animals and idiots." - Lou Holtz

  12738. "I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself." - Loretta Young

  12739. "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." - Vaclav Havel

  12740. "Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed." - Jenna Wortham

  12741. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  12742. "I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things." - Julian Clary

  12743. "There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers." - John Oliver

  12744. "It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race." - Robert W. Service

  12745. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  12746. "Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way." - Robert Downey, Jr.

  12747. "There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning." - Phyllis Logan

  12748. "I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas." - Jesse White

  12749. "I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad." - Jimmy Smits

  12750. "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits." - Gustav Klimt

  12751. "Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something." - Ralph Marston

  12752. "The first time I performed onstage was at church. Then I formed a rock cover band - Pink Floyd and Joan Jett. We'd play at birthday parties, since it wasn't exactly church material." - Cailee Spaeny

  12753. "Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero." - David R. Ellis

  12754. "Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way." - Juan Mata

  12755. "Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy." - Franz Werfel

  12756. "I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique." - John Oates

  12757. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  12758. "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher

  12759. "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever." - Katherine Jenkins

  12760. "I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world." - Tia Mowry

  12761. "My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in 'Billy Elliot the Musical.'" - Tom Holland

  12762. "Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to." - Mike Krzyzewski

  12763. "I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing." - Grace Potter

  12764. "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness." - Aldous Huxley

  12765. "I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten." - Gabrielle Aplin

  12766. "I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I make spells in the morning when I put them on." - Alexa Chung

  12767. "To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness." - Cherie Lunghi

  12768. "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers." - Dave Barry

  12769. "I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of." - T.I.

  12770. "We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change." - Serj Tankian

  12771. "The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'" - Adriana Trigiani

  12772. "Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round." - Umberto Eco

  12773. "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square." - Michelle Obama

  12774. "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

  12775. "Being surrounded with such positive people always helps." - Donovan Bailey

  12776. "I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women." - Linda McMahon

  12777. "I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed." - Dolly Parton

  12778. "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June." - Al Bernstein

  12779. "Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life." - Gordon Brown

  12780. "Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own." - Daniel Goleman

  12781. "I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen." - George Michael

  12782. "We are never defeated unless we give up on God." - Ronald Reagan

  12783. "Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." - Booth Tarkington

  12784. "The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  12785. "Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness." - Nathaniel Parker Willis

  12786. "Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism." - Jeb Bush

  12787. "When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task." - George Soros

  12788. "In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft." - Jenna Dewan

  12789. "Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!" - Joyce Meyer

  12790. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine

  12791. "Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." - B. C. Forbes

  12792. "Friends are God's apology for relations." - Hugh Kingsmill

  12793. "I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser." - John McEnroe

  12794. "Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style." - Jamie Hyneman

  12795. "When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school." - Tammy Duckworth

  12796. "Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am." - Sasha Grey

  12797. "I have spent three and a half wonderful years at Arsenal, and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans." - Alexis Sanchez

  12798. "Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

  12799. "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male." - Julia Child

  12800. "I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success." - Og Mandino

  12801. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein

  12802. "Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year." - Marlo Thomas

  12803. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy

  12804. "The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves." - Stephen J. Dubner

  12805. "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive." - Yoko Ono

  12806. "And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans." - Barack Obama

  12807. "Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality." - Gordon Brown

  12808. "I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup." - Shilpa Shetty

  12809. "'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie." - Paul Pierce

  12810. "There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson." - Allen Iverson

  12811. "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it." - Franz Grillparzer

  12812. "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another." - John Clayton

  12813. "Chuck Lorre and everyone else on 'Mom' did such a great job of balancing that line that rides tragedy and comedy. They make you cry, and then they make you crack up about it." - Emily Osment

  12814. "Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion." - Billy Graham

  12815. "I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well." - Yannick Noah

  12816. "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples." - Ian MacKaye

  12817. "As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment." - Christina Tosi

  12818. "My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars." - E-40

  12819. "My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents." - Mario Batali

  12820. "It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment." - Honore de Balzac

  12821. "No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is." - Rush Limbaugh

  12822. "I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name." - Mike Pence

  12823. "When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion." - Stacey Abrams

  12824. "I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality." - Matt Haig

  12825. "I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven." - Annaleigh Ashford

  12826. "Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom." - Jenny Zhang

  12827. "I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer." - Darren Boyd

  12828. "Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning." - Jack Dempsey

  12829. "God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer." - Joyce Meyer

  12830. "One night I couldn't sleep at three in the morning and I thought, I'm going to color-coordinate my closet. And I did. There's a whole system. It goes from white to black and then all the colors in the middle. Then it goes by tank tops to T-shirts to long sleeves, and then it goes to the next color. Then it goes to sweaters the same way." - Madison Keys

  12831. "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today." - Anna Deavere Smith

  12832. "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." - Nolan Ryan

  12833. "African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations." - Mos Def

  12834. "The Bible is the fountain of truth." - Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  12835. "God loves to help him who strives to help himself." - Aeschylus

  12836. "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russell

  12837. "My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles." - Emma Stone

  12838. "For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people." - James Lankford

  12839. "Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be." - Joel Osteen

  12840. "It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs." - Kathy Najimy

  12841. "There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  12842. "Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept." - J. C. Ryle

  12843. "The negative is just as important as the positive." - Ellsworth Kelly

  12844. "Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path." - Anthony Joshua

  12845. "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." - Abraham Lincoln

  12846. "I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way." - James Garner

  12847. "I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing." - Muddy Waters

  12848. "Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life." - Craig Sager

  12849. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  12850. "When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree." - Bill Cosby

  12851. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher

  12852. "My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god." - Ray Bradbury

  12853. "I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the morning." - Charles Michael Davis

  12854. "I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments." - Juan Mata

  12855. "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business." - Celine Dion

  12856. "One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself." - James E. Casey

  12857. "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong

  12858. "My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time." - Julia Roberts

  12859. "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  12860. "I'm such an emotional performer, and my head is always like a rollercoaster, so if I'm in a good place and feeling grateful, that's when I notice that my shows come across as a lot more positive." - Beth Hart

  12861. "You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness." - Zig Ziglar

  12862. "I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'." - Lonny Price

  12863. "A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house." - Caroline Leavitt

  12864. "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

  12865. "The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion." - Nigel Lawson

  12866. "I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part." - David Cameron

  12867. "Jesu's walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band's 2009 album 'Infinity' has its bleak moments, but that album's single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it's over." - Anthony Fantano

  12868. "If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light." - Brian O'Driscoll

  12869. "I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties." - Jay-Z

  12870. "Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing." - Stevie Ray Vaughan

  12871. "What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated." - Philip Yancey

  12872. "Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life." - Gordon Brown

  12873. "The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals." - Jonathan Lethem

  12874. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive." - Jean Chatzky

  12875. "Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within." - Brad Pitt

  12876. "Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence." - Patrick Lencioni

  12877. "Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy." - Lu Wei

  12878. "And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected." - Spike Milligan

  12879. "I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'" - Katie Nolan

  12880. "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

  12881. "My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside." - William Moseley

  12882. "No electricity, no hot water, no heat - at times, we struggled. We'd wake up in the morning and wash with water we heated on a hot plate. And we'd go to bed at night wearing skull caps, sweat shirts, and gloves." - Jalen Rose

  12883. "It's all positive energy from me, man." - Swizz Beatz

  12884. "My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat." - Alain Ducasse

  12885. "That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic." - Monty Don

  12886. "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence." - Stephen Covey

  12887. "We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership." - Wendy Kopp

  12888. "I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism." - Mj Rodriguez

  12889. "My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored." - Sophie Dahl

  12890. "Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely." - Marcia Gay Harden

  12891. "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." - Norman Vincent Peale

  12892. "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree." - Padma Lakshmi

  12893. "Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'" - Jane McGonigal

  12894. "To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him." - Saint Basil

  12895. "Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard." - Mayte Garcia

  12896. "I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning." - Diego Klattenhoff

  12897. "My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me." - Sylvia Plath

  12898. "My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan." - Tom Brady

  12899. "I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy." - Thalia

  12900. "If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines." - Gary Hamel

  12901. "I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  12902. "You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  12903. "Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits." - Bill Haslam

  12904. "More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion." - Alexander Chase

  12905. "Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us." - William Ames

  12906. "I didn't even walk for graduation - I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn't have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn't write one of them. She literally got me my diploma." - Lil Peep

  12907. "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  12908. "Coffee... The caffeine in your morning coffee stops an enzyme called amylase from working correctly, which is located in your mouth and gut, and breaks down starchy carbs." - Eddie Hall

  12909. "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children." - Jessica Lange

  12910. "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time." - Steven Biko

  12911. "It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver." - Betty White

  12912. "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." - Phillips Brooks

  12913. "My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army." - Akshay Kumar

  12914. "It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." - Andrew Wyeth

  12915. "I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys." - Usher

  12916. "Nature is the art of God." - Dante Alighieri

  12917. "The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important." - Jennifer Hyman

  12918. "Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding." - Joyce Carol Oates

  12919. "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake." - John Shelby Spong

  12920. "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russell

  12921. "I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation." - Lake Bell

  12922. "I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe." - Bat for Lashes

  12923. "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." - Ronald Reagan

  12924. "There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going." - Mark Caine

  12925. "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." - Anais Nin

  12926. "BJP's agenda was all wrong. They claimed that India was shining. Is it a utensil which will shine when rubbed? They fooled the people by these slogans and tried to divide them on the lines of religion." - Asrani

  12927. "I wouldn't say I had a hard childhood because my mom always made sure we was Gucci, you know what I mean. Growing up, she made sure we ain't have to want for nothing. She did what she had to do; she made her money, and we was always good." - Young M.A

  12928. "The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study on certain days. Saturday afternoon was choir practice. I wanted desperately to be a good Christian." - Leslie Jordan

  12929. "'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain." - Mason Ramsey

  12930. "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are." - Kirstie Alley

  12931. "We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace." - Stanley Hauerwas

  12932. "Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city, however nobody does it better then the Big Apple." - Hilary Farr

  12933. "I want people to get positive energy from our music." - Suga

  12934. "My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts." - Frankie J. Alvarez

  12935. "It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it." - Ben Stein

  12936. "I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'" - Paul Walker

  12937. "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success." - Bo Bennett

  12938. "I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings." - Yolanda Hadid

  12939. "Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc." - Friedrich Engels

  12940. "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." - Catherine Zeta-Jones

  12941. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius

  12942. "Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people." - Tena Desae

  12943. "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

  12944. "Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed." - Sushma Swaraj

  12945. "Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people." - Ziggy Marley

  12946. "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

  12947. "Fashion Week is like Christmas." - Brad Goreski

  12948. "I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life." - Antony Gormley

  12949. "You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born." - Myles Munroe

  12950. "My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." - Isaac Newton

  12951. "Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second." - Bear Bryant

  12952. "When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  12953. "The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing." - Uzodinma Iweala

  12954. "My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years." - Mary Berry

  12955. "It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas." - Bill Nighy

  12956. "If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive." - Mark Goulston

  12957. "My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible." - Oliver Hudson

  12958. "To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life." - Nancy Reagan

  12959. "At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted." - Sugar Ray Leonard

  12960. "At Easter the family got together and we were giving one of my uncles a hard time about watching scary films because on the boat leaving Vietnam, when we were attacked by pirates, he wet his pants." - Anh Do

  12961. "Why be a man when you can be a success?" - Bertolt Brecht

  12962. "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  12963. "I am quite a positive person. I always try to see the good in every situation, the good in everybody." - Glenn McGrath

  12964. "I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them." - Kailash Satyarthi

  12965. "If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that." - Sean Quinn

  12966. "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." - Baruch Spinoza

  12967. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  12968. "You never know God is all you need until God is all you have." - Rick Warren

  12969. "In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines." - Jennifer Lee

  12970. "Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future." - Jacob Rothschild

  12971. "I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light." - David Hockney

  12972. "When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world." - Victor Ortiz

  12973. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  12974. "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." - John D. Rockefeller

  12975. "Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper." - John Updike

  12976. "We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord." - Fred Hammond

  12977. "It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love." - Moliere

  12978. "I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country." - Shahid Khan

  12979. "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." - George Santayana

  12980. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." - Joyce Brothers

  12981. "Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them." - Jack Canfield

  12982. "Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God." - John Muir

  12983. "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner." - Michael Symon

  12984. "When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." - Voltaire

  12985. "I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success." - Jack Welch

  12986. "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  12987. "I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will." - Charles Spurgeon

  12988. "It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future." - Winona Ryder

  12989. "Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way." - Warren Moon

  12990. "My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck." - Dana Perino

  12991. "I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that." - Hayley Hasselhoff

  12992. "I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14." - Johnny Galecki

  12993. "Breakfast is my favorite way to start off the day. This is usually what I order every morning on set: egg whites scrambled with broccoli and a side of well-done turkey bacon. Sometimes I add a bit of feta cheese." - Cassie Scerbo

  12994. "Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town, and my sister had amazing success. It was so amazing to see my sister reach such heights." - Jamie Lynn Spears

  12995. "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin

  12996. "A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude." - Richard M. DeVos

  12997. "The Hermes scarf is a coveted, much-collected symbol of success that defines the Paris-based luxury company. But it has no single designer. Rather, the scarves are designed by a far-flung array of freelance artists." - Christina Binkley

  12998. "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." - Helen Keller

  12999. "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

  13000. "My friend had told me about 'Stranger Things' and how I had to watch it. I was like, 'OK, I will!' I binged it in, like, a day and was like, 'Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.' A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part." - Sadie Sink

  13001. "If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides." - Charles de Montesquieu

  13002. "The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free." - Swami Vivekananda

  13003. "One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas." - Bailee Madison

  13004. "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night." - Chanakya

  13005. "Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us." - Lauryn Hill

  13006. "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" - Jean Cocteau

  13007. "I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that." - Sasha Grey

  13008. "Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals." - David A. Bednar

  13009. "I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas." - Frank Butler

  13010. "My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview." - Max Boot

  13011. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  13012. "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent." - Barbara Ehrenreich

  13013. "I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving." - Jay Rock

  13014. "When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!" - David Starr Jordan

  13015. "What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power." - Steve-O

  13016. "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go." - Pearl Bailey

  13017. "Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered." - Kevin Gates

  13018. "I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide." - Wladimir Klitschko

  13019. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  13020. "Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away." - Jim Elliot

  13021. "God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  13022. "I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty." - Rod Stewart

  13023. "I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom." - Priyanka Chopra

  13024. "I'm motivated by the positive ways in which Bitcoin use being widespread will make the world a better place." - Roger Ver

  13025. "I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game." - Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  13026. "What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing." - Will Oldham

  13027. "You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side." - Martin Seligman

  13028. "In 1974 when I was 22 years old, I was working for $95 a week at WSPB, which was an Atlanta Braves-affiliated AM radio station in Sarasota, Florida. Fresh out of Northwestern University, I was the news director at the station, and my main bread and butter was to handle updates during the morning and afternoon drive times." - Craig Sager

  13029. "I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday." - Andrea Jeremiah

  13030. "I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe." - Dick Dale

  13031. "I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration." - William P. Young

  13032. "I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage." - Kid Cudi

  13033. "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher

  13034. "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions." - Stephen Harper

  13035. "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." - Stephen Graham Jones

  13036. "I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents." - Mariah Carey

  13037. "From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize." - Henry Paulson

  13038. "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive." - Carter Burwell

  13039. "I want always to be positive." - Gianni Versace

  13040. "Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge." - Patricia Cornwell

  13041. "I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them." - Kailash Satyarthi

  13042. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  13043. "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." - D. H. Lawrence

  13044. "I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family." - Hilary Duff

  13045. "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

  13046. "I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm a sister and a best friend." - Tia Mowry

  13047. "We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God." - Duane Chapman

  13048. "My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that." - Borns

  13049. "Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together." - Ray Bradbury

  13050. "I only answer to two people, myself and God." - Cher

  13051. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine

  13052. "My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three." - Halsey

  13053. "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." - Mary Kay Ash

  13054. "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?" - Stephen Colbert

  13055. "I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from." - Shakira

  13056. "The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position." - Josh McDowell

  13057. "Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God." - Bo Sanchez

  13058. "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people." - Stevie Nicks

  13059. "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." - Jane D. Hull

  13060. "My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman." - Jimmy O. Yang

  13061. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  13062. "My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work." - Stephanie Szostak

  13063. "The sun is new each day." - Heraclitus

  13064. "If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?" - Boethius

  13065. "My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material." - Tommy Chong

  13066. "Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects." - Pope Francis

  13067. "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." - Wade Boggs

  13068. "In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well." - Simon Schama

  13069. "During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

  13070. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  13071. "There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself." - Drew Barrymore

  13072. "So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way." - Chantal Sutherland

  13073. "I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians." - Devin Townsend

  13074. "Morning or night, I love putting mint or spearmint oil on my temples and the back of my neck. There's this aromatherapy quality of both easing tension and waking you up." - Lily Collins

  13075. "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." - Arthur C. Clarke

  13076. "My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time." - Jim Carrey

  13077. "I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important." - Jake Paul

  13078. "My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew." - Miranda Lambert

  13079. "March 15th is the most important day of the year. It's my birthday." - Maxwell Jacob Friedman

  13080. "This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly." - Alesha Dixon

  13081. "I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers." - Jessica Sanchez

  13082. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

  13083. "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland." - Michael D. Higgins

  13084. "The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing." - Uzodinma Iweala

  13085. "Whatever role I play is a positive role; it's a strong role. Never negative." - Mr. T

  13086. "I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field." - Matt Harvey

  13087. "I'm thankful for every moment." - Al Green

  13088. "For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'" - Daisy Lowe

  13089. "The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain." - Shawn Achor

  13090. "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." - Francis Bacon

  13091. "I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it." - Nicole Byer

  13092. "I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age." - Dexter Darden

  13093. "I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive." - John Hickenlooper

  13094. "There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success." - John Osborne

  13095. "My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory." - Rory McIlroy

  13096. "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." - Paramahansa Yogananda

  13097. "When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way." - Richard Quest

  13098. "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." - Emile Zola

  13099. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

  13100. "I only answer to two people, myself and God." - Cher

  13101. "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison

  13102. "We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example." - Margaret D. Nadauld

  13103. "Man proposes, but God disposes." - Thomas a Kempis

  13104. "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." - Helen Keller

  13105. "We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine." - Dwight L. Moody

  13106. "To be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes

  13107. "My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars." - Kyle

  13108. "I never looked at ECW as wrestling. I always considered it more of a theology. I don't know whether I had or didn't have a messianic complex during that time. But I bought into the movement as much as, if not more than, anybody else. If I sold anyone on the religion of extreme, I was its number-one customer." - Paul Heyman

  13109. "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference." - Edmund Burke

  13110. "The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability." - Simon Mainwaring

  13111. "I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary." - Hannah John-Kamen

  13112. "I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute." - Betty Williams

  13113. "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent." - Barbara Ehrenreich

  13114. "If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?" - Al Jourgensen

  13115. "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  13116. "A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive." - Karen Salmansohn

  13117. "I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me." - Billy Crystal

  13118. "Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology." - Donald Johanson

  13119. "The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'" - Ana de Armas

  13120. "I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great." - Russell Wilson

  13121. "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed." - Patrick Henry

  13122. "I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day." - Monica Seles

  13123. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

  13124. "When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge." - John Rocha

  13125. "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

  13126. "Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone's. Except in the shops at Christmas." - Sara Pascoe

  13127. "When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn't go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings." - Min Jin Lee

  13128. "Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines." - Hans Haacke

  13129. "Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away." - Chuck Palahniuk

  13130. "I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that." - Michael Trevino

  13131. "The Son of God became man so that we might become God." - Athanasius

  13132. "My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better." - Tessa Virtue

  13133. "I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day." - Gabrielle Bernstein

  13134. "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." - William Inge

  13135. "I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success." - Michael Landon

  13136. "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

  13137. "Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world." - Cameron Russell

  13138. "What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary." - Lea DeLaria

  13139. "We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride." - Sonya Walger

  13140. "I've always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline." - Baker Mayfield

  13141. "This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me." - Rodney Dangerfield

  13142. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

  13143. "Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state." - Norman Lamm

  13144. "I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership." - Zoe Sugg

  13145. "I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God." - Tim Kennedy

  13146. "A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician." - Emma Bonino

  13147. "I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa." - Louis Theroux

  13148. "All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude." - Rose Namajunas

  13149. "It's always a wonderful time to be able to settle down by the fire, enjoy the Christmas tree and the decorations, and just spend time with the ones you love and surround yourself with the people that you don't get to see enough throughout the year." - Jay DeMarcus

  13150. "If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force." - Manuel Puig

  13151. "I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it." - Pamela Anderson

  13152. "I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes." - Leigh Lezark

  13153. "When you're a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died." - Ali Wong

  13154. "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things." - Demi Lovato

  13155. "As more and more Americans spend their earliest hours scrolling through news alerts and weather forecasts on their smartphones and tablets, morning shows have to adapt, too. And their biggest competitive advantage may be that, unlike an iPhone, they offer some form of companionship." - Brian Stelter

  13156. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

  13157. "Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success." - David Goggins

  13158. "God save us from religion." - David Icke

  13159. "I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson." - Whitley Strieber

  13160. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch

  13161. "I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas." - Jami Attenberg

  13162. "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God." - Lawrence Welk

  13163. "It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to." - Stephen Curry

  13164. "That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality." - Robert Sapolsky

  13165. "My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?" - Ja Rule

  13166. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  13167. "I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill." - Allen Ginsberg

  13168. "My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible." - John W. Rogers, Jr.

  13169. "We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them." - Johannes Stark

  13170. "I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously." - Catherine O'Hara

  13171. "I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser." - John McEnroe

  13172. "My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another." - Ailyn Perez

  13173. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  13174. "As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face." - Amal Clooney

  13175. "I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday." - Mary H.K. Choi

  13176. "I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal." - Ruth Reichl

  13177. "I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself." - Carmelo Anthony

  13178. "If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed." - Jesse Itzler

  13179. "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way." - Karl Barth

  13180. "It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion." - Herman Hesse

  13181. "I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips." - Sue Perkins

  13182. "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better." - John Carmack

  13183. "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent." - Pearl S. Buck

  13184. "It's obviously a blessing to be able to play on Christmas Night, the one big night everyone watches." - Matt Barnes

  13185. "Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own." - Mohnish Pabrai

  13186. "My mum and dad weren't wealthy people. We used to have pasta every day, meat once a week, fish was once every two weeks, presents only at Christmas and birthday." - Gino D'Acampo

  13187. "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success." - James Dyson

  13188. "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance." - Mary C. Jones

  13189. "My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life." - George W. Romney

  13190. "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." - Thomas Paine

  13191. "In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out." - Chinua Achebe

  13192. "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?" - Desmond Tutu

  13193. "If you come up with something that's useless and promote it the right way, everybody will have to have it yesterday, even though they get up the next morning and wonder why they bought it." - Ken Hakuta

  13194. "I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine." - Dave Rubin

  13195. "When a man's willing and eager the god's join in." - Aeschylus

  13196. "Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way." - Skylar Grey

  13197. "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." - George Carlin

  13198. "My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years." - Nipsey Hussle

  13199. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

  13200. "I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing." - Casey Kasem

  13201. "Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  13202. "I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead." - Clarence Clemons

  13203. "When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces." - Peter Billingsley

  13204. "I believe God will make a way." - Lauryn Hill

  13205. "But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me." - Michael W. Smith

  13206. "Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion." - Penn Jillette

  13207. "The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need." - Bruce Springsteen

  13208. "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature." - Neil Young

  13209. "Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence." - Elias Canetti

  13210. "To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion." - Ravi Zacharias

  13211. "Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure." - Penn Jillette

  13212. "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness." - Aldous Huxley

  13213. "One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday." - Michael Buffer

  13214. "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." - Michael Dell

  13215. "In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'" - Sylvia Plath

  13216. "Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible." - Mark Hopkins

  13217. "Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God." - John Muir

  13218. "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach

  13219. "The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It's just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it." - Mark Manson

  13220. "Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones." - Kay Redfield Jamison

  13221. "Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore." - Ariana Grande

  13222. "When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe." - Marley Dias

  13223. "Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago." - Ben Feldman

  13224. "I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day." - Wong Kar-wai

  13225. "I got my style from my mom, she was a classy lady." - Big Freedia

  13226. "I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross." - Colby Covington

  13227. "There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well." - Sudeep

  13228. "Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities." - Anthony Scaramucci

  13229. "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." - Henry Kissinger

  13230. "Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller

  13231. "Ujda Chaman' has helped me gain more confidence in my own skills as an actor because it's such an unusual story. Several people asked me to not go for such an unconventional role at such an early stage in my career but I had a positive feeling when I saw the movie." - Sunny Singh

  13232. "The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say." - Sam Walton

  13233. "I hope I never get so old I get religious." - Ingmar Bergman

  13234. "God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over." - Fantasia Barrino

  13235. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  13236. "Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we're doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had." - Trish Regan

  13237. "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

  13238. "I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book." - Matthew Pearl

  13239. "However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts." - John Calvin

  13240. "I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on." - Sam Heughan

  13241. "My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board." - Nick Frost

  13242. "For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up." - Michael Dirda

  13243. "I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time." - Angela Kinsey

  13244. "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." - George Carlin

  13245. "My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence." - Charlize Theron

  13246. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon." - Debi Mazar

  13247. "One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'" - Tyra Banks

  13248. "I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed." - Evan Ross

  13249. "How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?" - Simon Mainwaring

  13250. "If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'" - Tom Cruise

  13251. "Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life." - Christian McCaffrey

  13252. "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." - Thomas J. Watson

  13253. "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." - Charles Spurgeon

  13254. "Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package." - Jon Katz

  13255. "To me, success is choice and opportunity." - Harrison Ford

  13256. "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

  13257. "The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt." - Derek Fisher

  13258. "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." - Napoleon Hill

  13259. "One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season." - Marlo Thomas

  13260. "In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!" - Lloyd Kaufman

  13261. "I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'" - Kevin-Prince Boateng

  13262. "I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom." - Carol Leifer

  13263. "There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning." - Sissy Spacek

  13264. "I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world." - Ryan Eggold

  13265. "Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret." - Don Miguel Ruiz

  13266. "You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here." - Ram Dass

  13267. "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page

  13268. "Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune." - Jessie Buckley

  13269. "The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed." - John Oates

  13270. "What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America." - Herm Edwards

  13271. "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." - Jean-Paul Sartre

  13272. "I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away." - Natasha Richardson

  13273. "It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head." - Manoj Bajpayee

  13274. "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

  13275. "I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium." - Carrie Mae Weems

  13276. "My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience." - David L. Wolper

  13277. "I wasn't really too hyped on religion. I don't really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There's just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them." - NLE Choppa

  13278. "Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs." - Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  13279. "Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us." - Judith Durham

  13280. "I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference." - Tim Scott

  13281. "Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God." - Monica Johnson

  13282. "My mom used to call me Joshy Boucher. I watched 'The Waterboy' so much, my mom started calling me Joshy Boucher. True story." - Josh Allen

  13283. "I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later." - Kevin James

  13284. "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!" - Rodney Atkins

  13285. "Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher

  13286. "God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!" - Joyce Meyer

  13287. "For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need." - Finn Wolfhard

  13288. "As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then." - Pete Wentz

  13289. "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." - Don Rickles

  13290. "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  13291. "The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result." - Margaret Cuomo

  13292. "Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended." - Keith Thibodeaux

  13293. "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

  13294. "I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey." - Ryan Guzman

  13295. "Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that." - Jennifer Coolidge

  13296. "We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others." - Sundar Pichai

  13297. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  13298. "I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!" - Soleil Moon Frye

  13299. "God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia." - Russell Crowe

  13300. "Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service." - Ed Schultz

  13301. "God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection." - Alfred Adler

  13302. "I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay." - Doja Cat

  13303. "I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work." - Kristen Stewart

  13304. "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit." - Avicenna

  13305. "Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers." - Kevin Plank

  13306. "Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way." - Robert Downey, Jr.

  13307. "I always remove my makeup before sleeping and moisturise before bed and in the morning." - Hazel Keech

  13308. "I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you." - Clint Eastwood

  13309. "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'" - Demetri Martin

  13310. "I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me." - Johnny Mathis

  13311. "When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends." - Thomas P. O'Neill

  13312. "Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition." - Fred Melamed

  13313. "One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics." - Lin-Manuel Miranda

  13314. "The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before." - Saint Augustine

  13315. "My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with." - David Beckham

  13316. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  13317. "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success." - Michael Korda

  13318. "Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature." - Hallgrimur Helgason

  13319. "Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones." - Jennifer Coolidge

  13320. "True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life." - Maximillian Degenerez

  13321. "I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner." - Emily Ratajkowski

  13322. "When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'" - Oswald Chambers

  13323. "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'" - Johnny Carson

  13324. "My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'" - Henrikh Mkhitaryan

  13325. "Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie." - Srikumar Rao

  13326. "For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train." - Dwayne Johnson

  13327. "A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction." - Richard M. DeVos

  13328. "I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting." - Joyce Meyer

  13329. "For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry." - Malaika Arora Khan

  13330. "The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts." - Hank Azaria

  13331. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  13332. "I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think." - Rachel Zoe

  13333. "I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse." - Susanne Bier

  13334. "There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin." - Mary Tyler Moore

  13335. "I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that." - Victoria Beckham

  13336. "This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security." - Art Buchwald

  13337. "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." - Alfred Adler

  13338. "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." - Dalai Lama

  13339. "If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself." - Kris Kristofferson

  13340. "Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life." - Christian McCaffrey

  13341. "Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God." - Rick Warren

  13342. "We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them." - Johannes Stark

  13343. "As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things." - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  13344. "I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio." - Charles Leclerc

  13345. "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." - Thomas Szasz

  13346. "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." - Benjamin Franklin

  13347. "I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food." - Leah LaBelle

  13348. "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." - John Ruskin

  13349. "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday." - John Clayton

  13350. "Your wardrobe can be your passport for success. What you wear to a new job interview or an audition can be of great impact and open doors for you. If you possess talent and faith in yourself, and wear clothing that enhances your personality, you have a 50 percent better chance of winning or gaining whatever you're seeking." - Walter Mercado

  13351. "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." - Michelle Obama

  13352. "I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again." - Kareena Kapoor Khan

  13353. "I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I last spoke with him on Christmas Day 2002, when I called him to talk about an argument I'd had with my cousin; he died two months later, on February 27, 2003." - Tom Junod

  13354. "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion." - Alexander Graham Bell

  13355. "I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life." - Paula Deen

  13356. "The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream." - Tommy Hilfiger

  13357. "If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy." - Simone Biles

  13358. "Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection." - Frederica Mathewes-Green

  13359. "Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up." - Allen Klein

  13360. "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God." - Mary Manin Morrissey

  13361. "Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities." - Randi Weingarten

  13362. "I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists." - Prodigy

  13363. "Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail." - Sheri L. Dew

  13364. "I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive." - Jimmy Fallon

  13365. "The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions." - Goldie Hawn

  13366. "The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do." - Leon Russell

  13367. "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you." - Jay-Z

  13368. "And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better." - Mitt Romney

  13369. "The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph." - Nostradamus

  13370. "Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." - David Hume

  13371. "My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything." - Willam Belli

  13372. "I always remove my makeup before sleeping and moisturise before bed and in the morning." - Hazel Keech

  13373. "Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same." - Rachael Ray

  13374. "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." - Lily Tomlin

  13375. "What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back." - India Arie

  13376. "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." - Zig Ziglar

  13377. "I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross." - Colby Covington

  13378. "I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister." - Richard Coles

  13379. "Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care." - Miriam Defensor-Santiago

  13380. "Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited." - Gottfried Leibniz

  13381. "I celebrate Christmas with wilful glee." - Robert Rinder

  13382. "If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth." - Chandler Parsons

  13383. "Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success." - Taylor Lautner

  13384. "Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories." - Caroline Sunshine

  13385. "My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people." - Ashleigh Murray

  13386. "To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means." - Emanuel Swedenborg

  13387. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

  13388. "God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning." - Andy Stanley

  13389. "'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing." - Kris Kristofferson

  13390. "Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?" - Apolo Ohno

  13391. "I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing." - Mark Wahlberg

  13392. "I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them." - Conor McGregor

  13393. "I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's." - Kate Hudson

  13394. "I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you." - Michelle Phan

  13395. "Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas." - Lewis Black

  13396. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." - Francis of Assisi

  13397. "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck

  13398. "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Rabindranath Tagore

  13399. "I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark." - Aubrey Plaza

  13400. "Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew." - Gil Marks

  13401. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Joyce Brothers

  13402. "My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe." - Anton du Beke

  13403. "My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate volunteer and cheerleader for me." - Gretchen Carlson

  13404. "I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant." - Nia Vardalos

  13405. "We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride." - Sonya Walger

  13406. "If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf." - Henry Longhurst

  13407. "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." - Carrie-Anne Moss

  13408. "Lower taxes, less regulations, less lawsuits, deals that support U.S. manufacturers is all very positive." - John Paulson

  13409. "I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising." - Charles Dance

  13410. "In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer." - Siddhartha Mukherjee

  13411. "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel." - Beth Ditto

  13412. "Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure." - Mel Gibson

  13413. "The secret of our success is that we never, never give up." - Wilma Mankiller

  13414. "I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing." - Gary Burghoff

  13415. "In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening." - Boy George

  13416. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  13417. "I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight." - Ann Aguirre

  13418. "I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time." - Flo Rida

  13419. "I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science." - Bill Nye

  13420. "My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview." - Max Boot

  13421. "Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us." - Yvette Clarke

  13422. "A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester." - Clinton Sparks

  13423. "I love all things Christmas." - Samantha Barks

  13424. "Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God." - Tony Evans

  13425. "I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year." - Tom Brady

  13426. "There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration." - Boris Vallejo

  13427. "Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind." - Clive Bell

  13428. "What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth." - Benny Hinn

  13429. "I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children." - John Cornforth

  13430. "We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures." - Tom Hodgkinson

  13431. "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me." - Arthur Wellesley

  13432. "My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired." - Jesse Ventura

  13433. "Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them." - Terence Stamp

  13434. "My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas." - Jenna Morasca

  13435. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." - Martin Luther

  13436. "Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction." - Daniel Levitin

  13437. "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas." - Johnny Carson

  13438. "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results." - William James

  13439. "One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself." - James E. Casey

  13440. "Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods." - Genevieve Gorder

  13441. "The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment." - Marilyn Ferguson

  13442. "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late." - Cardi B

  13443. "I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." - Benjamin Franklin

  13444. "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." - Mahatma Gandhi

  13445. "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  13446. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  13447. "By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time." - Sherwin B. Nuland

  13448. "I left school on my 15th birthday." - David Bailey

  13449. "Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines." - Gloria Trevi

  13450. "I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  13451. "I remember it was Dr. Seuss' birthday, and I got to read to the little ones and that was just an awesome experience. I remember when I was a young knucklehead and having that access to an after-school program in my community. It's something that hits home to me and something I wanted to always be a part of." - Travis Kelce

  13452. "Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales." - Rose George

  13453. "One of the things that Marjorie has done has given me the joy of family. It's a joy I never really knew. I spent a long time being lonely and hiding, and now, at Christmas, there's this huge family. That's something that's very new to me. And very special." - Joe Walsh

  13454. "I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person." - King Krule

  13455. "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation." - Robert Teeter

  13456. "My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and every Christmas, and sometimes I pop over during the year to say hi, and, of course, celebrate St. Patrick's Day." - Stella Maxwell

  13457. "My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two." - Anne F. Beiler

  13458. "Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'" - Alan Colmes

  13459. "I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a monstrous day in front of me. Granola gives me energy. It's quick, tasty, and healthy." - Daniel Humm

  13460. "We convince by our presence." - Walt Whitman

  13461. "When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S." - Sonita Alizadeh

  13462. "Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous." - Benny Hinn

  13463. "If you love god, burn a church." - Jello Biafra

  13464. "The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time." - Piet Mondrian

  13465. "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true." - Blaise Pascal

  13466. "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith." - Russell M. Nelson

  13467. "Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success." - Toni Kroos

  13468. "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." - J. D. Salinger

  13469. "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." - Michelangelo

  13470. "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." - Leopold Kronecker

  13471. "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." - Elie Wiesel

  13472. "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul." - Thomas Merton

  13473. "Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties." - Dalai Lama

  13474. "Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change." - Bruce Lipton

  13475. "One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature." - Greg Graffin

  13476. "I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is." - Nargis Fakhri

  13477. "My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life." - Sarah Paulson

  13478. "If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's working for my good. Doesn't mean everything's going to be smooth, but that's all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel." - Shawn Michaels

  13479. "My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!" - Molly Bloom

  13480. "Your wardrobe can be your passport for success. What you wear to a new job interview or an audition can be of great impact and open doors for you. If you possess talent and faith in yourself, and wear clothing that enhances your personality, you have a 50 percent better chance of winning or gaining whatever you're seeking." - Walter Mercado

  13481. "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." - Gertrude Stein

  13482. "I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me." - Gigi Gorgeous

  13483. "I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions." - Stephen Dobyns

  13484. "Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well." - Tom Rath

  13485. "Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances." - Amy Morin

  13486. "There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none." - Pope Benedict XVI

  13487. "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy." - Christopher Hitchens

  13488. "For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night." - John Hickenlooper

  13489. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  13490. "Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything." - Arfi Lamba

  13491. "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy." - Joel Osteen

  13492. "The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar." - Stevie Nicks

  13493. "The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ." - John Piper

  13494. "Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India." - Chanda Kochhar

  13495. "Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning." - Tony Rock

  13496. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  13497. "I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album." - Tanya Tucker

  13498. "Negative comments in terms of body image are the hardest thing the women probably struggle with. But I think the best thing that we can do as WWE superstars is taking that negativity and using it in a positive way, because there are so many young kids on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to not send the message of hate on to." - Charlotte Flair

  13499. "The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'" - Viola Davis

  13500. "I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies." - Mo Rocca

  13501. "In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude." - Thomas Erskine

  13502. "I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life." - Scott Eastwood

  13503. "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people." - George Bernard Shaw

  13504. "I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path." - Taya Kyle

  13505. "Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so." - Stephen Leacock

  13506. "We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn't have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we'd get one T-shirt or one shirt... So I want to take care of Mom and Dad... and I'm having a damn good time doing it." - Jim Kelly

  13507. "Our country is one of the youngest in the world. Our youngsters need to be told inspirational stories." - Sudha Kongara

  13508. "Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives." - Jay Parini

  13509. "A place for everything, everything in its place." - Benjamin Franklin

  13510. "Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat." - Marcus Samuelsson

  13511. "The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war." - Burgess Owens

  13512. "Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket." - Kirstin Maldonado

  13513. "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'" - Demetri Martin

  13514. "Success doesn't happen overnight." - Petra Collins

  13515. "I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart." - Roisin Murphy

  13516. "Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second." - Bear Bryant

  13517. "And when I breathed, my breath was lightning." - Black Elk

  13518. "I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me." - Antonio Villaraigosa

  13519. "What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl." - Roma Downey

  13520. "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

  13521. "Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine." - Jenny McCarthy

  13522. "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

  13523. "I bought my mom a car for Christmas. I don't even own my own car." - Perez Hilton

  13524. "When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic." - Jane Wagner

  13525. "If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God." - Ramakrishna

  13526. "Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure." - Jerry Spinelli

  13527. "Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut." - Allison Tolman

  13528. "When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  13529. "When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist." - Soledad O'Brien

  13530. "I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that." - Von Miller

  13531. "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." - William Blake

  13532. "I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of the Nativity, literally above the place where Christ was born." - Chris de Burgh

  13533. "There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination." - Jeb Bush

  13534. "God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world." - Billy Graham

  13535. "My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round." - Cindy Margolis

  13536. "I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down." - John C. Reilly

  13537. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank

  13538. "I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children." - Corey Feldman

  13539. "Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything." - Judith Durham

  13540. "I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started hearing this woman screaming my full name at three in the morning, every night. Finally, on the seventh or eighth night, she screamed it again, and I woke up." - Zak Bagans

  13541. "The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore." - Angela Ahrendts

  13542. "I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science." - Bill Nye

  13543. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

  13544. "I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?" - Jim Capaldi

  13545. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  13546. "We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it." - Madelaine Petsch

  13547. "Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago." - Ben Feldman

  13548. "I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!" - Norman Rockwell

  13549. "If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation." - Daniela Pestova

  13550. "The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need." - Bruce Springsteen

  13551. "For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'" - Daisy Lowe

  13552. "As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns." - Mary Antin

  13553. "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning." - Carl Sandburg

  13554. "I try to put a positive spin on things." - Krysten Ritter

  13555. "My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer." - Catriona Gray

  13556. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

  13557. "When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK." - Ethel Kennedy

  13558. "You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off." - Miley Cyrus

  13559. "Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits." - Bill Haslam

  13560. "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen." - Lee Iacocca

  13561. "Success is survival." - Leonard Cohen

  13562. "How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often. But I speak to my mum very regularly and have a close relationship with my parents." - Will Poulter

  13563. "I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month." - Jeffrey Tambor

  13564. "Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything." - Judith Durham

  13565. "My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning." - Dakota Fanning

  13566. "The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays." - Julianna Margulies

  13567. "I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too." - Robert Trujillo

  13568. "My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money." - Megan Fox

  13569. "I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution." - Thomas Heatherwick

  13570. "For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very." - Jon Hamm

  13571. "Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question." - Jack White

  13572. "There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way." - Brenda Strong

  13573. "Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist." - KT Tunstall

  13574. "Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president." - Michael Moore

  13575. "Love is my religion - I could die for it." - John Keats

  13576. "If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help." - Max Lucado

  13577. "When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it." - Baron Davis

  13578. "If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome." - Jimmy John Liautaud

  13579. "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen Covey

  13580. "London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy." - David Schwimmer

  13581. "Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business." - Imran Amed

  13582. "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind." - Marlee Matlin

  13583. "I got my style from my mom, she was a classy lady." - Big Freedia

  13584. "I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?" - Ian St. John

  13585. "The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  13586. "My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning." - Dakota Fanning

  13587. "My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought." - Allen Iverson

  13588. "I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'" - Lauren London

  13589. "I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen." - Amy Sedaris

  13590. "As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini." - Alessia Cara

  13591. "Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  13592. "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy." - Joel Osteen

  13593. "It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas." - Bill Nighy

  13594. "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." - Oliver Goldsmith

  13595. "To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom." - Jose Bergamin

  13596. "I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns." - John Tesh

  13597. "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." - John Keats

  13598. "As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do." - Anthony Joshua

  13599. "'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out." - John Waters

  13600. "I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day." - Sufjan Stevens

  13601. "I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself." - Rupert Penry-Jones

  13602. "When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever." - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  13603. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin

  13604. "'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.'" - John Waters

  13605. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron

  13606. "I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day." - Sufjan Stevens

  13607. "As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in the economy, this leads to a kind of disorientation and loss of community and identity. That void can be filled through constructive and positive things, like community involvement or family." - Pete Buttigieg

  13608. "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." - D. H. Lawrence

  13609. "More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model." - Kiana Tom

  13610. "I'm not really into religion." - Harry Dean Stanton

  13611. "As more and more Americans spend their earliest hours scrolling through news alerts and weather forecasts on their smartphones and tablets, morning shows have to adapt, too. And their biggest competitive advantage may be that, unlike an iPhone, they offer some form of companionship." - Brian Stelter

  13612. "A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life." - Mena Suvari

  13613. "The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line." - Joe Garcia

  13614. "When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns." - Michelle Obama

  13615. "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success." - Denis Waitley

  13616. "In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal." - Ava DuVernay

  13617. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  13618. "And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans." - Barack Obama

  13619. "The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  13620. "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell

  13621. "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." - Charles Darwin

  13622. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

  13623. "I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success." - Christie Hefner

  13624. "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri

  13625. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  13626. "I've done yoga, and it's fun, but I'm not the kind of person that can wake up and do it every morning. It's like, I have to be in the mood." - Lily-Rose Depp

  13627. "God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over." - Fantasia Barrino

  13628. "Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself." - Ali Wong

  13629. "As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success." - Henry Cavill

  13630. "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind." - Joel Osteen

  13631. "Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  13632. "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." - Jean Kerr

  13633. "I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house." - Sue Townsend

  13634. "I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia." - David O. Selznick

  13635. "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects." - Ben Shapiro

  13636. "It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive." - Freya Tingley

  13637. "It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes." - Catherine Oxenberg

  13638. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

  13639. "It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation." - Tina Brown

  13640. "Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life." - Neil Diamond

  13641. "Early this morning, I signed my death warrant." - Michael Collins

  13642. "My birthday is in November, so I think I'm a Scorpio? I'm not even sure!" - Ryan Hurd

  13643. "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success." - Og Mandino

  13644. "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill

  13645. "The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving." - Tinashe

  13646. "At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins." - Christie Brinkley

  13647. "To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way." - David Schwimmer

  13648. "To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed." - Nat Turner

  13649. "Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body." - Erin Heatherton

  13650. "A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed." - Paul Engle

  13651. "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure." - Zig Ziglar

  13652. "In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment." - Viktor E. Frankl

  13653. "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli

  13654. "Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah." - Meir Soloveichik

  13655. "United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'" - Antonio Guterres

  13656. "'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible." - Laila Ali

  13657. "The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space." - Michio Kaku

  13658. "The single most important key to success is to be a good listener." - Kelly Wearstler

  13659. "Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative." - Donnie Yen

  13660. "When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!" - Todrick Hall

  13661. "Success is dependent on effort." - Sophocles

  13662. "I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then." - Post Malone

  13663. "If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check." - Mahalia Jackson

  13664. "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been." - Bobby Jindal

  13665. "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God." - Guru Nanak

  13666. "It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece." - Big Sean

  13667. "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." - Richard Roeper

  13668. "Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias

  13669. "My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three." - Halsey

  13670. "Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion." - Billy Graham

  13671. "Teach us to give and not to count the cost." - Saint Ignatius

  13672. "I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful." - Daniel Lyons

  13673. "Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time." - Jennifer McMahon

  13674. "In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out." - Alain Ducasse

  13675. "I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade." - Jonathan Groff

  13676. "Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits." - Bill Haslam

  13677. "As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues." - Paul Dini

  13678. "Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child." - Amy Grant

  13679. "Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  13680. "Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal." - Sarah Bernhardt

  13681. "My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing." - Sarah Shahi

  13682. "My parents, specially my mom wanted me to pursue B.Com honours during my undergrad." - Bhuvan Bam

  13683. "We want to give people positive energy and we also want to comfort people." - Nayeon

  13684. "I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish." - Tom T. Hall

  13685. "All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

  13686. "At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes." - Desiigner

  13687. "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

  13688. "One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with." - June Carter Cash

  13689. "O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship." - Thomas Ken

  13690. "I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house." - Jay-Z

  13691. "A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday." - Erma Bombeck

  13692. "I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, 'What a waste of energy.' If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself." - Conor McGregor

  13693. "My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'" - Zoe Kravitz

  13694. "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house." - Marc Forgione

  13695. "My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me." - Zion Williamson

  13696. "I think what I can do is to focus more on what I'm good at and see if I can improve on these positive qualities so that I can continue on the path I'm on now." - Lee Seung-gi

  13697. "My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone." - Suki Waterhouse

  13698. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - George Bernard Shaw

  13699. "I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album." - Estelle

  13700. "I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park." - Megyn Kelly

  13701. "My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old." - Mike Shinoda

  13702. "Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning." - Louis Nizer

  13703. "It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." - Andrew Wyeth

  13704. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

  13705. "Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy's levelling impulses could not be more acute." - Mark Fisher

  13706. "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." - Robert H. Schuller

  13707. "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds." - Abraham Lincoln

  13708. "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." - Robertson Davies

  13709. "The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity." - Ashwin Sanghi

  13710. "Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love." - Michelle Phan

  13711. "The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream." - Tommy Hilfiger

  13712. "Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always." - Sadio Mane

  13713. "I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!" - Arianna Huffington

  13714. "My mom raised us like we were still in the Philippines. She tried to cure everything at home like a real Filipino woman. You had to die to go to the hospital. My mom cured everything with Vicks VapoRub. I should've died nine times when I was a kid!" - Jo Koy

  13715. "When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'" - Valerie Harper

  13716. "I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said 'oh, you need surgery,' it was really weird - it was appendicitis." - Emma Willis

  13717. "It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them." - Louis C. K.

  13718. "Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." - Charles J. Givens

  13719. "Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." - Larry King

  13720. "I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed." - Jonathan Krisel

  13721. "When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  13722. "Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know." - Sallie Krawcheck

  13723. "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs." - Tony Visconti

  13724. "I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently." - Nikki Haley

  13725. "Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way." - Warren Moon

  13726. "A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life." - Mena Suvari

  13727. "Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs." - Sheena Easton

  13728. "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross." - William Barclay

  13729. "In the morning, I never cleanse. I just splash my face with water and pat it dry. I honestly think that the human body is a clever thing and that the natural oils my skin produces are best for it. Then I apply a dab of rouge, and I'm off." - Thandie Newton

  13730. "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts." - Tom Brady

  13731. "The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice." - John Boyle O'Reilly

  13732. "Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error." - Robert Owen

  13733. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." - Robert H. Schuller

  13734. "The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek." - N. T. Wright

  13735. "When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God." - Robert Mapplethorpe

  13736. "Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that." - Imelda Staunton

  13737. "Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that." - Rosanna Pansino

  13738. "Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'" - Jane McGonigal

  13739. "I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done." - Peter Criss

  13740. "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business." - Celine Dion

  13741. "The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast." - Ellen G. White

  13742. "My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington." - Big Sean

  13743. "Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world." - Kirstin Maldonado

  13744. "I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district." - Lucille Roybal-Allard

  13745. "Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals." - John H. Johnson

  13746. "My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard." - Mustard

  13747. "March 15th is the most important day of the year. It's my birthday." - Maxwell Jacob Friedman

  13748. "I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative." - Chloe Sevigny

  13749. "My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work." - Stephanie Szostak

  13750. "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable." - Pat Riley

  13751. "As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven." - Billy Graham

  13752. "Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done." - Robin S. Sharma

  13753. "My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life." - Dikembe Mutombo

  13754. "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch

  13755. "Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably." - Gerard Way

  13756. "I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child." - Chris Van Allsburg

  13757. "I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion." - Dalai Lama

  13758. "We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me." - Petra Collins

  13759. "For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time." - Retta

  13760. "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness." - Carrie Fisher

  13761. "Life is all about being positive and celebrating what you have in the moment." - Vivek Oberoi

  13762. "I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday." - Joanna Lumley

  13763. "Always stay positive and keep positive people around you." - Jeff Green

  13764. "As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice." - Jennifer Granholm

  13765. "The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews." - Matisyahu

  13766. "Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." - Kin Hubbard

  13767. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

  13768. "You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what." - Ciara

  13769. "I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I'm crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception." - Dave Ramsey

  13770. "We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!" - Trisha Yearwood

  13771. "The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want." - Chris Pine

  13772. "I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  13773. "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." - George Edward Woodberry

  13774. "I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great." - Jacques Pepin

  13775. "If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm X

  13776. "I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties." - Jay-Z

  13777. "I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living." - William Gibson

  13778. "I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both." - J. Cole

  13779. "I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well." - Hale Irwin

  13780. "I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution." - Thomas Heatherwick

  13781. "When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday." - Clive Thompson

  13782. "I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe." - David Gilmour

  13783. "I'd go out with my family and my close ones, who have been by my side through the years, but I am not the one who will throw parties on his birthday." - Sonu Sood

  13784. "In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion." - Kofi Annan

  13785. "Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow." - Penelope Keith

  13786. "The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking." - Deepak Chopra

  13787. "My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job." - Ed Bradley

  13788. "Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious." - Ramakrishna

  13789. "My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised." - Robin Wright

  13790. "A cult is a religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe

  13791. "My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily." - Sarah Koenig

  13792. "When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed." - Stephen Hendry

  13793. "I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty." - John Waters

  13794. "On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else." - George Clooney

  13795. "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal." - Carol P. Christ

  13796. "My favorite breakfast that is nutritious and very quick to do is eggs. Of course not everyday because that's not good for you, but I like to have eggs in the morning at least three times a week as it gives me a lot of energy." - Gino D'Acampo

  13797. "In my opinion, love is not about gender, it's not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries." - Bill Kaulitz

  13798. "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." - Nelson Algren

  13799. "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." - B. R. Ambedkar

  13800. "My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made." - Kaia Gerber

  13801. "I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'" - Craig David

  13802. "I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director." - Michael Keaton

  13803. "I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning." - Peter De Vries

  13804. "Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious." - Patton Oswalt

  13805. "There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice." - Karol G

  13806. "It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success." - Brian Armstrong

  13807. "I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me." - Colin Morgan

  13808. "My favorite breakfast that is nutritious and very quick to do is eggs. Of course not everyday because that's not good for you, but I like to have eggs in the morning at least three times a week as it gives me a lot of energy." - Gino D'Acampo

  13809. "You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house." - Sarah Hall

  13810. "It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through." - Oti Mabuse

  13811. "My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up." - Maye Musk

  13812. "My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds." - Richard Branson

  13813. "Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy." - Jonathan Sacks

  13814. "No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin

  13815. "I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight." - Derrick Lewis

  13816. "My real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, so a lot of people don't know that, but Rose is kind of special in my family as my grandma's name is Rosemary, my mom's name is Mary Rose, I'm Amanda Rose, my niece is Demi Rose." - Mandy Rose

  13817. "I saw these little trucks that I was obsessed with, and my dad got me one for my eighth birthday. That was the start of my racing career." - Hailie Deegan

  13818. "My birthday is in November, so I think I'm a Scorpio? I'm not even sure!" - Ryan Hurd

  13819. "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." - Charles J. Givens

  13820. "I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist." - Ricky Martin

  13821. "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance." - Tim Allen

  13822. "I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something." - Kenny Baker

  13823. "I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received." - Ryan Reynolds

  13824. "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac

  13825. "After all, God is God because he remembers." - Elie Wiesel

  13826. "There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'" - Chuck Schumer

  13827. "When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas." - Chris Brown

  13828. "Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium." - Vincent Kompany

  13829. "I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any." - Joy Bryant

  13830. "I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They give me positive energy and strength. They make me feel connected to the earth. I cherish them." - Isabel Lucas

  13831. "When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic." - Wesley Clark

  13832. "My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two." - Anne F. Beiler

  13833. "You're a song written by the hands of God." - Shakira

  13834. "It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard." - Andy Ruiz Jr.

  13835. "I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures." - Alex Zanardi

  13836. "Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning." - Rick Tumlinson

  13837. "My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes." - Zach Anner

  13838. "I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty." - John Waters

  13839. "I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems." - Hina Khan

  13840. "I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia." - David H. Murdock

  13841. "From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture." - Joachim Low

  13842. "The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think." - Maya Angelou

  13843. "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them." - John Boehner

  13844. "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." - Sean Combs

  13845. "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th." - Sarah Ferguson

  13846. "I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter." - Daniel Morgan

  13847. "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard

  13848. "The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Lamar S. Smith

  13849. "The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?" - Dennis C. Blair

  13850. "Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)." - Janet Napolitano

  13851. "Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin." - Michael Greger

  13852. "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls." - Henry David Thoreau

  13853. "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken

  13854. "'El Gordo' is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world - and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain." - Michael Paterniti

  13855. "'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers." - Linda Johnson Rice

  13856. "I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization." - Stephen Baldwin

  13857. "You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement." - Jim Starlin

  13858. "I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well." - Abby Wambach

  13859. "Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was prepared to throw them on a fire to keep himself warm." - Mona Eltahawy

  13860. "In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us." - Brene Brown

  13861. "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it." - Mitt Romney

  13862. "I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'" - Troy Polamalu

  13863. "I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead." - Clarence Clemons

  13864. "Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!" - Bethany Hamilton

  13865. "I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to." - Billy Graham

  13866. "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." - Charles Horton Cooley

  13867. "We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king." - Brother Lawrence

  13868. "I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow." - Tom Araya

  13869. "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan

  13870. "With the success of 'Yevade Subramanyam' and 'Bhale Magadivoy,' the audience's faith in me has increased, which is a good sign." - Nani

  13871. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein

  13872. "Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." - John Morley

  13873. "What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble." - Arthur Laffer

  13874. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

  13875. "I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!" - Hoda Kotb

  13876. "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th." - Sarah Ferguson

  13877. "My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She'd try new methods." - Wesley Morris

  13878. "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift." - Liam Neeson

  13879. "I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'" - Lauren London

  13880. "What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day." - Bonnie Blair

  13881. "On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside." - Annie Jacobsen

  13882. "The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful." - Theodore Melfi

  13883. "That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness." - Lupe Fiasco

  13884. "I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of." - T.I.

  13885. "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." - Steven Wright

  13886. "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion." - Patrick Henry

  13887. "I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia." - Mallory Jansen

  13888. "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms." - Ellen G. White

  13889. "I can't resist South Indian cuisine, particularly what is prepared at home. My mom is my favourite cook. She can cook a variety of cuisines. I savour her cooking at home, and she's undoubtedly the best." - Deepika Padukone

  13890. "My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her." - Loni Anderson

  13891. "Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties." - Natalie Massenet

  13892. "As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel." - Claire Tomalin

  13893. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." - Robert H. Schuller

  13894. "Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life." - Stan Wawrinka

  13895. "If things aren't going so well, I try to stay positive and not give in to negative thoughts." - Rosanna Arquette

  13896. "I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God." - A. R. Rahman

  13897. "In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13898. "Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?" - Andrew W.K.

  13899. "If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion." - Emile Durkheim

  13900. "You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else." - Ben Carson

  13901. "A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced." - Jordan Peterson

  13902. "The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change." - Shawn Achor

  13903. "Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection." - Winston Churchill

  13904. "I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is." - John Oliver

  13905. "I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship." - Ron White

  13906. "God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience." - Ellen G. White

  13907. "I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life." - Gabourey Sidibe

  13908. "To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice." - Ambrose Bierce

  13909. "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." - Tanya Tucker

  13910. "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller

  13911. "James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work." - Chris Sullivan

  13912. "First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life." - Oksana Baiul

  13913. "The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could." - Paul Hogan

  13914. "Kerala is called 'God's own country.' We need to make sure it is really so, for which we should ensure the entire state, including rivers and backwaters, are clean." - Pinarayi Vijayan

  13915. "Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology." - Donald Johanson

  13916. "If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional." - Angelina Jolie

  13917. "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." - Pat Riley

  13918. "People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter." - Irena Sendler

  13919. "Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history." - Will Poulter

  13920. "I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes." - Sylvester Stallone

  13921. "Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity." - Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  13922. "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?" - Desmond Tutu

  13923. "God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time." - Terrell Owens

  13924. "Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want." - John Waters

  13925. "Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work." - Emanuel Cleaver

  13926. "I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem." - Kylie Jenner

  13927. "The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home." - Cheo Hodari Coker

  13928. "I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it." - Jake Shears

  13929. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

  13930. "I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?" - Oscar Nunez

  13931. "All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle." - John Hersey

  13932. "I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." - Marla Gibbs

  13933. "There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'" - Brie Larson

  13934. "In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say." - John Hench

  13935. "When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!" - Joyce Meyer

  13936. "I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it." - Sonia Sotomayor

  13937. "I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered." - Sonia Sotomayor

  13938. "My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom." - Grace Potter

  13939. "The only thing better than singing is more singing." - Ella Fitzgerald

  13940. "There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it." - Anita Roddick

  13941. "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." - Steven Seagal

  13942. "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." - Bear Bryant

  13943. "Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society." - Donald Miller

  13944. "Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication." - Dinesh Paliwal

  13945. "When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever." - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  13946. "Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference." - Robbie Robertson

  13947. "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." - Erskine Bowles

  13948. "In Bollywood, birthday celebrations are usual and very carefree." - Arbaaz Khan

  13949. "My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together." - Bode Miller

  13950. "It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time." - Mal Peet

  13951. "It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral." - Fabrizio Moreira

  13952. "My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people." - Ashleigh Murray

  13953. "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

  13954. "We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community." - Ed Reed

  13955. "Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco." - Chip Conley

  13956. "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." - Joe DiMaggio

  13957. "My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!" - Ashley Graham

  13958. "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile." - Arlen Specter

  13959. "I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'" - Hunter Hayes

  13960. "If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about - and make a few million along the way - then I have been successful." - Bill Rancic

  13961. "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison

  13962. "A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed." - Paul Engle

  13963. "Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art." - Ezra Pound

  13964. "I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia." - Mallory Jansen

  13965. "My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me." - Gary Vaynerchuk

  13966. "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents." - Adele

  13967. "I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom." - Sally Mann

  13968. "I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida - to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers." - Rob Gronkowski

  13969. "Just because it is Christmas doesn't mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up." - Kate Garraway

  13970. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

  13971. "My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired." - Jesse Ventura

  13972. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

  13973. "I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum." - Peter O'Toole

  13974. "My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training." - William H. McRaven

  13975. "Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone." - Jason Bateman

  13976. "My mom raised us like we were still in the Philippines. She tried to cure everything at home like a real Filipino woman. You had to die to go to the hospital. My mom cured everything with Vicks VapoRub. I should've died nine times when I was a kid!" - Jo Koy

  13977. "I trained myself out of the habit of relying on notifications to make me feel good so that I could dedicate my time to my personal two-hour meditation practice every morning." - Jay Shetty

  13978. "My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up." - Maye Musk

  13979. "I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid." - Leah Remini

  13980. "My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again." - Dan Levy

  13981. "I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you." - Kali Uchis

  13982. "Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business." - Isabelle Kocher

  13983. "I loved the first Christmas I had in England." - Blythe Danner

  13984. "Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone." - Melissa Etheridge

  13985. "I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about." - Mary Steenburgen

  13986. "Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments." - Gina Rodriguez

  13987. "My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness." - Sushant Singh Rajput

  13988. "I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed." - Evan Ross

  13989. "For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time." - Retta

  13990. "Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions." - Nikolai Gogol

  13991. "What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine." - Oprah Winfrey

  13992. "I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast." - Summer Sanders

  13993. "That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy." - George Foreman

  13994. "My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that." - Gemma Arterton

  13995. "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won." - Paul Merton

  13996. "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." - Martin Luther

  13997. "Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  13998. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl." - Lady Gaga

  13999. "That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children." - Chelsea Clinton

  14000. "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio." - Ken Blanchard

  14001. "I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days." - Aaron Huey

  14002. "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." - Amy Grant

  14003. "I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M." - Laila Ali

  14004. "The stereoscopic panoramic videos that we're showing on Samsung VR are getting a lot of positive traction. It's exciting when you see creative types - whether from the music, film, or video industries - look at this stuff. The gears are turning in their head almost immediately about how they can use it as a new medium." - John Carmack

  14005. "If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today." - Jack Canfield

  14006. "It's really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day - 100% guaranteed." - Jocko Willink

  14007. "My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise." - Lauren Jauregui

  14008. "I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve." - Common

  14009. "For me, reinstating the ban on transgenders in the military was a very positive step." - Tomi Lahren

  14010. "When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about." - Matisyahu

  14011. "Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do." - Wayne Dyer

  14012. "One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom." - Gnash

  14013. "I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." - Jules Renard

  14014. "I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom." - Sally Mann

  14015. "I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to." - Billy Graham

  14016. "Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin." - Michael Greger

  14017. "Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?" - G-Eazy

  14018. "My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked." - Melissa Leo

  14019. "I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one." - Gloria Estefan

  14020. "For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn't find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!" - Ron Howard

  14021. "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi

  14022. "You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body." - Shawn Achor

  14023. "My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything." - Willam Belli

  14024. "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." - Martin Luther

  14025. "I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them." - Adele

  14026. "I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!" - Joe Nichols

  14027. "I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful." - Winnie Harlow

  14028. "Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God." - Jim Elliot

  14029. "I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'" - Tig Notaro

  14030. "The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey." - Andrae Crouch

  14031. "One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom." - Gnash

  14032. "Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection." - Pindar

  14033. "My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'" - Hilary Duff

  14034. "I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start." - Aaron Sorkin

  14035. "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth

  14036. "Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder." - Tom Waits

  14037. "I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that." - Anne Graham Lotz

  14038. "I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution." - Thomas Heatherwick

  14039. "You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good." - Hans Bender

  14040. "Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption." - Trey Parker

  14041. "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard." - Jay-Z

  14042. "I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is." - Nargis Fakhri

  14043. "I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We hang out. We go to different cities together. We like the same music. I think that's why he appreciates his mom and me so much - we treat him like a friend." - Jo Koy

  14044. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  14045. "I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving." - Carol Alt

  14046. "One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia." - Robert C. Merton

  14047. "Honestly, sometimes, it takes a negative to bring about a positive." - Kirstin Maldonado

  14048. "Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  14049. "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." - Henry Ford

  14050. "Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation." - Pierre Nanterme

  14051. "As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women." - Mona Eltahawy

  14052. "Negative comments in terms of body image are the hardest thing the women probably struggle with. But I think the best thing that we can do as WWE superstars is taking that negativity and using it in a positive way, because there are so many young kids on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to not send the message of hate on to." - Charlotte Flair

  14053. "When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing." - Zendaya

  14054. "The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy." - Bob Schieffer

  14055. "I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike." - Sean Lock

  14056. "I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding." - Clint Eastwood

  14057. "Prince Charles was once obsessed with a particular beauty, Anna Wallace, and couldn't understand why she walked out on him after he spent the evening dancing with Camilla at the Queen Mother's 80th birthday party." - Ingrid Seward

  14058. "My favorite Christmas movie is 'Elf,' and I think there's a really cute romance in 'Elf.'" - Alex Roe

  14059. "When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more." - Nick Saban

  14060. "I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often." - Lori Foster

  14061. "We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community." - Ed Reed

  14062. "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." - Saint Teresa of Avila

  14063. "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams

  14064. "Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way." - Juan Mata

  14065. "I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world." - Jami Gertz

  14066. "I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit." - Amanda Seyfried

  14067. "It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies." - Michael Dirda

  14068. "God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people." - Francis Collins

  14069. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  14070. "I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates." - Jodie Whittaker

  14071. "You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side." - Martin Seligman

  14072. "I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece." - Travis Scott

  14073. "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." - Pat Riley

  14074. "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." - Bobby Moynihan

  14075. "In Bollywood, birthday celebrations are usual and very carefree." - Arbaaz Khan

  14076. "I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing." - John Cleese

  14077. "You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us." - Robin Gibb

  14078. "Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we're doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had." - Trish Regan

  14079. "A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas." - Hugh Bonneville

  14080. "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps." - Dick Gregory

  14081. "I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors." - Joel Osteen

  14082. "Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created." - Rumi

  14083. "I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking." - Steve Albini

  14084. "When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion." - Stacey Abrams

  14085. "The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images." - John Updike

  14086. "Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  14087. "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th." - Sarah Ferguson

  14088. "Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion." - Israel Zangwill

  14089. "Halloween is my favorite holiday. It's like my Christmas." - Tech N9ne

  14090. "I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them." - Conor McGregor

  14091. "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way." - Dave Chappelle

  14092. "Art is man's nature; nature is God's art." - Philip James Bailey

  14093. "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season." - Evan Davis

  14094. "My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch." - Katharine McPhee

  14095. "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

  14096. "The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'" - Spike Milligan

  14097. "I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion." - Harbhajan Singh

  14098. "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day." - Mickey Rooney

  14099. "People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents." - Bryce Courtenay

  14100. "What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America." - Herm Edwards

  14101. "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay." - William Cowper

  14102. "God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive." - Edwin Louis Cole

  14103. "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." - Bill Watterson

  14104. "Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew." - Gil Marks

  14105. "There is a lot I need to thank God for, everyday. But I think I am blessed because I have a very loving, understanding and supporting family." - Neha Dhupia

  14106. "I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful." - Daniel Lyons

  14107. "Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do." - Ralph Marston

  14108. "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

  14109. "Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies." - Blake Lively

  14110. "'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families." - Peter Billingsley

  14111. "By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." - James G. Frazer

  14112. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back." - Gloria Steinem

  14113. "Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  14114. "I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes." - Lech Walesa

  14115. "I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears." - Michael Trucco

  14116. "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds." - Abraham Lincoln

  14117. "There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers." - John Oliver

  14118. "I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do." - Jonny Kim

  14119. "When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go." - Poppy Delevingne

  14120. "God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  14121. "With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood." - Isadora Duncan

  14122. "I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity." - Jackie Mason

  14123. "I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me." - Ronny Chieng

  14124. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

  14125. "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another." - John Clayton

  14126. "You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it." - Florence King

  14127. "I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed." - Gene Tierney

  14128. "Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas." - Gil Marks

  14129. "God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that." - Clayton Kershaw

  14130. "There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise." - Derek Walcott

  14131. "I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive." - Sonia Sotomayor

  14132. "In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude." - Thomas Erskine

  14133. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  14134. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  14135. "There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." - Orison Swett Marden

  14136. "Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion." - Samuel Gompers

  14137. "I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers." - Miriam Margolyes

  14138. "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's." - Lyndon B. Johnson

  14139. "I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband." - Tim Kennedy

  14140. "My favorite breakfast that is nutritious and very quick to do is eggs. Of course not everyday because that's not good for you, but I like to have eggs in the morning at least three times a week as it gives me a lot of energy." - Gino D'Acampo

  14141. "A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does." - Melania Trump

  14142. "Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium." - Vincent Kompany

  14143. "We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord." - Fred Hammond

  14144. "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - Lewis Thomas

  14145. "Facebook lets me be lazy the way a man in a stereotypical 1950s office can be lazy. Facebook is the digital equivalent of my secretary, or perhaps my wife, yelling at me not to forget to wish someone a happy birthday or to inform me I have a social engagement this evening." - Sarah Jeong

  14146. "Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish." - Akhil Sharma

  14147. "My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson." - Joely Fisher

  14148. "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  14149. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

  14150. "When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent." - Matthew Quick

  14151. "One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful." - Thomas Arnold

  14152. "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it." - Glenn Beck

  14153. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli

  14154. "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound." - Chelsea Clinton

  14155. "My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan." - Tom Brady

  14156. "I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, 'Hey, I'm right here, I'll walk you through this and it doesn't make sense now but just trust me.' That's where faith come in - trust." - Jeremy Camp

  14157. "I never focus on success; I only focus on listening to my online community and being consistent." - Rosanna Pansino

  14158. "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still." - Phillips Brooks

  14159. "I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts." - Suzi Quatro

  14160. "Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool." - Connor Franta

  14161. "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do." - Diana Lopez

  14162. "I'll wear my mom jeans in public that haven't been tailored 'just so' yet, just because they feel good." - Anne Hathaway

  14163. "My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference." - Claire Saffitz

  14164. "Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good." - Reese Witherspoon

  14165. "On Christmas morning breakfast is always thick slices of ham, thick white toast, butter and pepper - oh and a glass of fizz!" - John Torode

  14166. "The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day." - David Eddings

  14167. "Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own." - Ethel Merman

  14168. "I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar." - M. Ward

  14169. "It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it." - Sylvia Plath

  14170. "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another." - John Clayton

  14171. "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them." - Henry Norris Russell

  14172. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  14173. "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." - Richard Brautigan

  14174. "After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts." - Tom Brady

  14175. "Everything has positive and negative consequences." - Farrah Fawcett

  14176. "That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'" - Jim Carrey

  14177. "I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child." - Grace Jones

  14178. "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." - Louis Kronenberger

  14179. "The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow." - Unai Emery

  14180. "Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

  14181. "We are made to know and love God." - Nicolas Malebranche

  14182. "Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen." - Adam Mansbach

  14183. "Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage." - Simon Hoggart

  14184. "It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues." - Philip Gibbs

  14185. "Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define." - Ani DiFranco

  14186. "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder." - Charles Morgan

  14187. "I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable." - Todd Barry

  14188. "You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale." - Marillyn Hewson

  14189. "You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'" - Jerry Seinfeld

  14190. "Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!" - Candice Olson

  14191. "Liberals will continue to put forward positive solutions that will help our economy grow and give all Canadians a real and fair chance at success." - Justin Trudeau

  14192. "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh." - Lord Acton

  14193. "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business." - Celine Dion

  14194. "The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure." - John Locke

  14195. "One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth." - Zooey Deschanel

  14196. "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive." - Carter Burwell

  14197. "There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you." - Ricky Williams

  14198. "For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series." - Charles Best

  14199. "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff." - Sojourner Truth

  14200. "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." - Arthur C. Clarke

  14201. "Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  14202. "It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God." - Michael Leunig

  14203. "I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school." - Nadiya Hussain

  14204. "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me." - David Bailey

  14205. "In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard." - John Grisham

  14206. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Joyce Brothers

  14207. "I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten." - Gabrielle Aplin

  14208. "St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence." - Eugene Kennedy

  14209. "And to this day, my Mom is my role model." - Paul Ryan

  14210. "Morning or night, I love putting mint or spearmint oil on my temples and the back of my neck. There's this aromatherapy quality of both easing tension and waking you up." - Lily Collins

  14211. "That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity." - Hans Kung

  14212. "I try to be positive and calm all the time." - Dahyun

  14213. "I am not a morning person." - Laurell K. Hamilton

  14214. "A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health." - Ellen G. White

  14215. "I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical." - Valentino Rossi

  14216. "Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies." - Blake Lively

  14217. "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac

  14218. "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell." - Bill Copeland

  14219. "God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from." - Erwin McManus

  14220. "First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish." - Barbara Walters

  14221. "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad." - Thomas Paine

  14222. "One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday." - Bobby Sherman

  14223. "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will." - Jonathan Edwards

  14224. "I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill." - Karen Bender

  14225. "It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after." - George Ade

  14226. "Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold." - Ellie Goulding

  14227. "Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday." - Bret Hart

  14228. "There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature." - Reinhold Messner

  14229. "Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me." - Anna Held

  14230. "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals." - Jim Rohn

  14231. "God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world." - Arthur Peacocke

  14232. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  14233. "I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it." - Claire Danes

  14234. "I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything." - Leona Lewis

  14235. "Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words." - Geoffrey Canada

  14236. "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God." - Smokey Robinson

  14237. "Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one." - Brian Behlendorf

  14238. "I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God." - Rodney King

  14239. "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating." - Iain Duncan Smith

  14240. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey

  14241. "It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives." - Monica Hesse

  14242. "The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want." - Phyllis Schlafly

  14243. "There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way." - Brenda Strong

  14244. "Christmas time... is about bringing everyone together." - Orianthi

  14245. "I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on." - Brian Eno

  14246. "It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress." - Jennifer Garner

  14247. "I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success." - Romelu Lukaku

  14248. "Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'" - Sophie Turner

  14249. "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy." - Mike Mills

  14250. "The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad." - Eric Johnson

  14251. "The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor." - Donovan

  14252. "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won." - Paul Merton

  14253. "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life." - Arthur Ashe

  14254. "The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted." - Olivia Williams

  14255. "Success is more difficult to handle than failure." - Ravi Zacharias

  14256. "The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve." - Blake Shelton

  14257. "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

  14258. "God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?" - Alan Paton

  14259. "Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc." - Friedrich Engels

  14260. "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

  14261. "I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things." - Randy Rainbow

  14262. "Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind." - Ron Ben-Israel

  14263. "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else." - Angie Stone

  14264. "We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States." - Barack Obama

  14265. "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." - Thomas Huxley

  14266. "It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational." - Shawn Mendes

  14267. "My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think." - Birdy

  14268. "When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?" - Lisa Loeb

  14269. "The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If the audience doesn't like one genre, they need only wait for the next number." - Mack Wilberg

  14270. "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson

  14271. "I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against." - Ben Stein

  14272. "I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas." - Hans-Ulrich Obrist

  14273. "Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created." - Saint Ignatius

  14274. "I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty." - Chloe Grace Moretz

  14275. "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power." - Alice Walker

  14276. "I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  14277. "I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer." - Darren Boyd

  14278. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." - Rosa Parks

  14279. "God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family." - Joel Osteen

  14280. "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision." - Ho Chi Minh

  14281. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  14282. "Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent." - Wole Soyinka

  14283. "Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage." - Simon Hoggart

  14284. "I take, like, 9,000 supplements every morning. I don't know if it's completely placebo or not, but I'm super committed to these supplements: like, I can't face the day without them." - Samin Nosrat

  14285. "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." - William Tecumseh Sherman

  14286. "My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her." - Guy Johnson

  14287. "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." - Salvador Dali

  14288. "The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes." - Dave Barry

  14289. "I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day." - Sufjan Stevens

  14290. "Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world." - Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  14291. "Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success." - Dwayne Johnson

  14292. "You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters." - John Burns

  14293. "Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would marry. My brother just sort of evaded, and my dad lived far away, so I was left alone." - Rosa Salazar

  14294. "We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day." - Perry Como

  14295. "Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious." - Will Poulter

  14296. "Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we're doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had." - Trish Regan

  14297. "Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect." - Shaquille O'Neal

  14298. "Music and religion keep me young." - Ilaiyaraaja

  14299. "Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat." - Marcus Samuelsson

  14300. "The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa

  14301. "A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me." - Andrea Bocelli

  14302. "I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now." - Alicia Keys

  14303. "Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?" - Apolo Ohno

  14304. "To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin." - Donatella Versace

  14305. "Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind." - Alexander Pope

  14306. "I talk about my faith. I talk about positive things that I've dealt with that have taught me things, and I talk about negative things that I'm dealing with." - NF

  14307. "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical." - Julius Erving

  14308. "Let each man exercise the art he knows." - Aristophanes

  14309. "My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day." - Kailash Kher

  14310. "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom." - Sydney Madwed

  14311. "My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!" - Mallory Jansen

  14312. "I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday." - Amy Weber

  14313. "I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." - Faith Hill

  14314. "As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation." - Rosecrans Baldwin

  14315. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden." - Marcus Samuelsson

  14316. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand

  14317. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." - Anne Frank

  14318. "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - Lewis Thomas

  14319. "Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather." - Kristina McMorris

  14320. "The most positive men are the most credulous." - Alexander Pope

  14321. "Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are." - James Altucher

  14322. "I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life." - Paula Deen

  14323. "Happiness is the natural flower of duty." - Phillips Brooks

  14324. "I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts." - Suzi Quatro

  14325. "If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions." - Lawrence Wright

  14326. "When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it." - Tracy Morgan

  14327. "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness." - Han Suyin

  14328. "The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm." - George Osborne

  14329. "I was a mama's girl. So when I had to go to Korea without mom, I felt that I had to take care of myself now. I was 14, such a kid. I didn't speak any Korean. I only knew how to say 'hello,' so it really was a new start." - Lisa

  14330. "I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability." - Zoe Foster Blake

  14331. "It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me." - Luke Perry

  14332. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." - W. Somerset Maugham

  14333. "I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is." - Octavia Spencer

  14334. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

  14335. "I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." - Roger Federer

  14336. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  14337. "God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time." - Terrell Owens

  14338. "As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle." - Beth Ditto

  14339. "God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be." - Brennan Manning

  14340. "Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser." - Joshua Waitzkin

  14341. "This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land." - Du Fu

  14342. "Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  14343. "I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over." - Kristin Armstrong

  14344. "My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic." - Ato Essandoh

  14345. "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox

  14346. "I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me." - YoungBoy Never Broke Again

  14347. "It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere." - Lynn Davies

  14348. "I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model." - Steven Bauer

  14349. "Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success." - Dwayne Johnson

  14350. "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true." - Thomas Paine

  14351. "When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much." - Adam Carolla

  14352. "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C. S. Lewis

  14353. "Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something." - Morihei Ueshiba

  14354. "I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted." - Greg Lake

  14355. "Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington." - Tim Scott

  14356. "I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am." - Akshay Kumar

  14357. "I am no mother, and I won't be one." - Brigitte Bardot

  14358. "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." - Jean-Paul Sartre

  14359. "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant

  14360. "Success is a great deodorant." - Elizabeth Taylor

  14361. "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He." - Friedrich Nietzsche

  14362. "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'" - Johnny Carson

  14363. "My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase." - James Altucher

  14364. "Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." - Ellen DeGeneres

  14365. "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  14366. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

  14367. "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" - Jennifer Aniston

  14368. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

  14369. "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do." - Mitt Romney

  14370. "There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world." - Peter James

  14371. "I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." - Marla Gibbs

  14372. "November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape." - F. Sionil Jose

  14373. "As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in the economy, this leads to a kind of disorientation and loss of community and identity. That void can be filled through constructive and positive things, like community involvement or family." - Pete Buttigieg

  14374. "It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out." - Christina Perri

  14375. "You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart." - Lights

  14376. "In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude." - Thomas Erskine

  14377. "I'm a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I've learned that." - Marcus Smart

  14378. "My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done." - Buck Owens

  14379. "Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society." - Donald Miller

  14380. "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms." - John B. S. Haldane

  14381. "In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well." - Richard Rohr

  14382. "Every morning when I woke up, I would pray, 'I have to throw today, please let there be no pain.' Those were very gloomy days. Meanwhile, the atmosphere around me had become, 'Is he faking an injury?' 'Is it a mental problem?' Those words made it extremely difficult for me to stop and rest, and it really took a toll on me emotionally." - Yu Darvish

  14383. "Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?" - Sayed Kashua

  14384. "Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew." - Gil Marks

  14385. "A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel - God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross." - Don Willett

  14386. "I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other." - Shahid Kapoor

  14387. "I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide." - Wladimir Klitschko

  14388. "I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays." - Eric Davis

  14389. "Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!" - Phyllis McGinley

  14390. "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it." - Samuel Goldwyn

  14391. "For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success." - Kanye West

  14392. "Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life." - Janine di Giovanni

  14393. "God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion." - Bono

  14394. "Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime." - Mariah Carey

  14395. "Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again." - Thelma Schoonmaker

  14396. "For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic." - J. Courtney Sullivan

  14397. "The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could." - Paul Hogan

  14398. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  14399. "I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success." - Gloria Vanderbilt

  14400. "No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy." - Lyman Beecher

  14401. "I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning." - Carly Chaikin

  14402. "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts." - Tom Brady

  14403. "The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday." - Sterling K. Brown

  14404. "I view art as an inspirational tool." - Thomas Kincade

  14405. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." - Konrad Lorenz

  14406. "I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well." - Abby Wambach

  14407. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  14408. "God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart." - Ellen G. White

  14409. "Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs." - Sheena Easton

  14410. "I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays." - Parineeti Chopra

  14411. "Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties." - Dalai Lama

  14412. "It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'" - Geri Halliwell

  14413. "I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it." - Suresh Raina

  14414. "I'd like to give out positive vibes and be surrounded by them as well." - Shriya Saran

  14415. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone

  14416. "There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that." - Morgan Wallen

  14417. "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing." - Florence Welch

  14418. "The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning." - Brian Grazer

  14419. "It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'" - Geri Halliwell

  14420. "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students." - Solomon Ortiz

  14421. "'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families." - Peter Billingsley

  14422. "We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community." - Ed Reed

  14423. "If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'" - Janet Montgomery

  14424. "It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people." - Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

  14425. "I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet." - Bill O'Reilly

  14426. "My mom is floored! She's so proud. I always wanted to do a channel that incorporates songs for younger kids." - GloZell

  14427. "You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works." - Greg Boyle

  14428. "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." - Arianna Huffington

  14429. "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." - Anatole France

  14430. "My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet." - Le'Veon Bell

  14431. "You change your life by changing your heart." - Max Lucado

  14432. "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it." - Camille Paglia

  14433. "Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion." - Sri Chinmoy

  14434. "The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda." - John C. Maxwell

  14435. "I look out the window in the morning sometimes, and the sun is rising, and the people are going to work. I look at Washington as being that big, sleeping giant, just stretching and waking up, and going about its business. And to know that I'm working in the capital of the most powerful nation in the world - I feel good about that." - Carl Kasell

  14436. "My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud." - Henry Rollins

  14437. "I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York." - Jason Mitchell

  14438. "'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better." - George Edward Woodberry

  14439. "I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train." - Benjamin Clementine

  14440. "I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better." - Liam Payne

  14441. "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." - John Ruskin

  14442. "Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life." - Janine di Giovanni

  14443. "I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer." - George Ezra

  14444. "I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can." - Tichina Arnold

  14445. "I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years." - Bonnie Tyler

  14446. "Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday." - John Clayton

  14447. "Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god." - Tim Wise

  14448. "Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it." - Florence Nightingale

  14449. "Negative comments in terms of body image are the hardest thing the women probably struggle with. But I think the best thing that we can do as WWE superstars is taking that negativity and using it in a positive way, because there are so many young kids on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to not send the message of hate on to." - Charlotte Flair

  14450. "Things don't always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that's what I've done - I've tried to keep my composure, even when things aren't going the way I'd like." - Giovani Dos Santos

  14451. "My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married." - Kirstin Maldonado

  14452. "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season." - Evan Davis

  14453. "I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do." - Gail Kelly

  14454. "Every failure is a step to success." - William Whewell

  14455. "There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance." - Helen Fisher

  14456. "For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God." - Lactantius

  14457. "You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased." - Daniel Kahneman

  14458. "I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap." - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  14459. "I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." - Douglas Adams

  14460. "I started playing at my local estate club. I used to wake up every morning to go to play in the club. I loved it so much, it brought a lot of wonderful things in my life." - Gervinho

  14461. "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity." - Cesar Chavez

  14462. "One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them." - Roy H. Williams

  14463. "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life." - Swami Vivekananda

  14464. "When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended." - Sheck Wes

  14465. "My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies." - Inbar Lavi

  14466. "I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom." - Joe Buck

  14467. "By harnessing our teammates' unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe." - Dennis Muilenburg

  14468. "When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could." - Astro Teller

  14469. "It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and teacher's roles in 'Masaan' and 'Nil Battey Sannata' that broke the villain's mould and helped me successfully explore the other shades - be it comedy, intense, or serious - surprising the audience all the time." - Pankaj Tripathi

  14470. "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves." - Major Taylor

  14471. "My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always." - Taylor Swift

  14472. "Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup." - Jocko Willink

  14473. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeffe

  14474. "My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars." - Kyle

  14475. "We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize." - John Henrik Clarke

  14476. "There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album." - Isaac Hanson

  14477. "When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun." - Nicki Minaj

  14478. "I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice." - Utada Hikaru

  14479. "I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning." - Mario Cantone

  14480. "If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf." - Henry Longhurst

  14481. "For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day." - Mercedes Schlapp

  14482. "Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize." - Susana Martinez

  14483. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

  14484. "There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well." - Sudeep

  14485. "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success." - Cullen Hightower

  14486. "As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues." - Paul Dini

  14487. "On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections." - Eva Herzigova

  14488. "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." - Napoleon Bonaparte

  14489. "It's not exactly calm at Christmas. It's a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert - lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce!" - Sophia Di Martino

  14490. "Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again." - Tove Jansson

  14491. "The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart." - Anita Diament

  14492. "My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it." - Joey Chestnut

  14493. "My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there." - Chamath Palihapitiya

  14494. "'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected." - Michael Scheuer

  14495. "I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally." - David Rockefeller

  14496. "If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man." - Derrick Henry

  14497. "I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours." - Kurt Vonnegut

  14498. "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw

  14499. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln

  14500. "I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to." - Billy Graham

  14501. "My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house." - Tom Hanks

  14502. "My son was 8 or 9, and he really wanted a gun. It was Christmas, and I said to my husband, 'It's time for a gun.'" - Wendy Long

  14503. "One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party." - Tamron Hall

  14504. "My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me." - Don Lemon

  14505. "I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light." - Ellsworth Kelly

  14506. "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." - Taylor Kinney

  14507. "God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love." - Martin Farquhar Tupper

  14508. "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning." - P. J. O'Rourke

  14509. "If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today." - Jack Canfield

  14510. "Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about." - Sean Hayes

  14511. "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George Burns

  14512. "Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world." - Ed Koch

  14513. "There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson." - Allen Iverson

  14514. "In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note." - Victoria Osteen

  14515. "We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves." - Irina Shayk

  14516. "Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish." - Madi Diaz

  14517. "There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us. Through the many struggles in my life, my faith is sometimes the only thing I have to hold onto. God was my only friend." - Gretchen Carlson

  14518. "To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success." - Hugh Jackman

  14519. "I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs." - Jessica Parker Kennedy

  14520. "Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'" - Gina Rodriguez

  14521. "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

  14522. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes." - Ernie Banks

  14523. "Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory." - Jocko Willink

  14524. "Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning." - Tyler Shaw

  14525. "I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'" - Hari Nef

  14526. "Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals." - John H. Johnson

  14527. "I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea." - Michael Eisner

  14528. "In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment." - Viktor E. Frankl

  14529. "We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well." - Momo Hirai

  14530. "We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic." - Lance Burton

  14531. "I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one." - Travis Fimmel

  14532. "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

  14533. "I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start." - Aaron Sorkin

  14534. "No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy." - Lyman Beecher

  14535. "What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area." - G-Eazy

  14536. "True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself." - Marcela Valladolid

  14537. "I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking." - Steve Albini

  14538. "I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion." - Karen Civil

  14539. "Music is one field where your caste and religion is not important. People accept you so long as you can move them. It is a medium that allows you to fly beyond your caste." - Rajiv Menon

  14540. "My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism." - Wayne Brady

  14541. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  14542. "Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment." - Sally Quinn

  14543. "I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe." - Sarah Wayne Callies

  14544. "My mom wanted me to be like... a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn't tryna be broke." - Lil Mosey

  14545. "I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique." - John Oates

  14546. "Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life." - Ryan Guzman

  14547. "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work." - Patrick Swayze

  14548. "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." - Alfred Adler

  14549. "From my grandmother, I started drinking warm water with lemon every morning just before breakfast. That's something she has been doing for years. It has helped me a lot with digestion. And then also eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, like not eating tomatoes in the winter." - Margherita Missoni

  14550. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

  14551. "Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us." - Billy Eichner

  14552. "What always draws me back to the Caribbean vibes are the upbeat vibrations of welcoming melodies and positive energy exchange through the rhythms that make you feel like dancing with someone." - Mya

  14553. "People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that's made people look to the future in a positive way." - Michael Franti

  14554. "I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then." - Post Malone

  14555. "I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving." - Tony Bennett

  14556. "There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion." - Cat Stevens

  14557. "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill

  14558. "I try to put a positive spin on things." - Krysten Ritter

  14559. "One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds." - Charles Kelley

  14560. "Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success." - Virat Kohli

  14561. "I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound." - Johnny Marr

  14562. "All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way." - Mary Berry

  14563. "Part of the tradition of the Christmas season is every night my son and I hit the town and look for every Christmas light we can find. This is something my son absolutely adores." - Bart Millard

  14564. "Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth." - Philip James Bailey

  14565. "Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers." - Peter Finch

  14566. "I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays." - Parineeti Chopra

  14567. "Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday." - Lance Stroll

  14568. "When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding." - Michael Korda

  14569. "I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week." - Lana Parrilla

  14570. "The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings." - A. J. Liebling

  14571. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank

  14572. "Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!" - Katherine Ryan

  14573. "My mom was the only one who didn't bleach her skin. She was the one who kept her natural complexion. So yes, I consider her a role model. All of her other family members would say to us, 'Oh, your mom is so beautiful. She's lucky she kept her skin.' Those comments stayed with me." - Khoudia Diop

  14574. "Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that." - Sean Quinn

  14575. "I don't feel like I'm a perfect mom, and then there are times at work where I feel like maybe I wasn't perfect here because of constraints on my time. But having the sum of both of those things going on in my life makes me a better mom at the end of the day, and I think gives me really important perspectives in the workplace as well." - Susan Wojcicki

  14576. "It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after." - George Ade

  14577. "My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me." - LeBron James

  14578. "My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever." - Frankie Ballard

  14579. "In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English." - Pankaj Mishra

  14580. "Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion." - Ambrose Bierce

  14581. "I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12." - Anjelah Johnson

  14582. "We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely." - Frank McCourt

  14583. "Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself." - Caroline Ghosn

  14584. "My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson." - Joely Fisher

  14585. "You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it." - Norman Schwarzkopf

  14586. "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club." - Naguib Mahfouz

  14587. "My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there." - Chamath Palihapitiya

  14588. "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." - Mira Nair

  14589. "I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way." - Drake Bell

  14590. "The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success." - Brendon Burchard

  14591. "Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I strongly believe in being a positive and creative force in the protection and enhancement of the local and global environment." - Paul E. Jacobs

  14592. "I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure." - Charlotte McKinney

  14593. "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life." - Yoko Ono

  14594. "To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor." - Ezra Taft Benson

  14595. "I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ." - Jan Hus

  14596. "My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family." - Julie Roberts

  14597. "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not." - Erskine Bowles

  14598. "Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli

  14599. "Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that." - Aretha Franklin

  14600. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." - W. Somerset Maugham

  14601. "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  14602. "God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

  14603. "As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities." - Ron Conway

  14604. "I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." - Georg Trakl

  14605. "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." - Steven Wright

  14606. "Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil." - Basil Hume

  14607. "I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority." - Herbert Read

  14608. "If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full." - Rory McIlroy

  14609. "The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe." - Sam Harris

  14610. "My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn't accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it." - Leon Bridges

  14611. "Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized." - Jidenna

  14612. "In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys." - Ryuichi Sakamoto

  14613. "When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S." - Sonita Alizadeh

  14614. "I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start." - Aaron Sorkin

  14615. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  14616. "If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay." - Larisa Oleynik

  14617. "I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday." - Peter O'Toole

  14618. "I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal." - Mike McCready

  14619. "I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas." - Cher

  14620. "Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!" - Phyllis McGinley

  14621. "My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi." - Fred Armisen

  14622. "I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits." - Lewis Howes

  14623. "I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe." - Dick Dale

  14624. "Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations." - Swami Sivananda

  14625. "I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love." - Olivia De Havilland

  14626. "I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit." - Mary Lambert

  14627. "A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine." - Steven Biko

  14628. "The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success." - Charlie White

  14629. "A comprehended god is no god." - John Chrysostom

  14630. "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." - Sloan Wilson

  14631. "To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out." - Amber Le Bon

  14632. "One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth." - Zooey Deschanel

  14633. "I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday." - Nikki Reed

  14634. "When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good." - Lindsey Vonn

  14635. "Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life." - Craig Sager

  14636. "I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death." - Marlon James

  14637. "I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success." - John C. Reilly

  14638. "You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence." - William S. Burroughs

  14639. "I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions." - Lata Mangeshkar

  14640. "Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl." - Chris Hardwick

  14641. "Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress." - Donovan

  14642. "I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that." - Thomas Brodie-Sangster

  14643. "Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable." - Zubin Mehta

  14644. "I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips." - Macaulay Culkin

  14645. "I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday." - Ben Platt

  14646. "There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion." - Patrick Wilson

  14647. "Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv." - DJ Khaled

  14648. "The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary." - Kendrick Lamar

  14649. "No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

  14650. "When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it." - Harshvardhan Rane

  14651. "At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins." - Christie Brinkley

  14652. "I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man." - George Michael

  14653. "Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief." - Franz Schubert

  14654. "If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything." - Patsy Cline

  14655. "Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success." - Thomas J. Stanley

  14656. "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." - W. Clement Stone

  14657. "Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book." - Jean Harlow

  14658. "My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule." - Ty Segall

  14659. "It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men." - Colman Domingo

  14660. "I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners." - Matt Harvey

  14661. "I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'" - Troy Polamalu

  14662. "When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I'll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family." - Eiza Gonzalez

  14663. "My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day." - Demi Lovato

  14664. "Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define." - Ani DiFranco

  14665. "I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you." - Michelle Phan

  14666. "I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll." - Walter O'Brien

  14667. "My friend had told me about 'Stranger Things' and how I had to watch it. I was like, 'OK, I will!' I binged it in, like, a day and was like, 'Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.' A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part." - Sadie Sink

  14668. "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." - Herbert Kaufman

  14669. "At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life." - John Vane

  14670. "I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me." - Gina Carano

  14671. "If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed." - Juliana Hatfield

  14672. "Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God." - Fethullah Gulen

  14673. "My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised." - Peter Capaldi

  14674. "I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now." - Tia Carrere

  14675. "God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it." - Andre Weil

  14676. "Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset." - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  14677. "I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world." - Angela Ahrendts

  14678. "When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual." - Frank Herbert

  14679. "Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities." - Randi Weingarten

  14680. "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." - Mira Nair

  14681. "I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born." - Jessie Pavelka

  14682. "President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen." - Chris Rock

  14683. "Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new." - Sammy Hagar

  14684. "India is a country in which every great religion finds a home." - Annie Besant

  14685. "I got a lot of positive people around me." - Dave Chappelle

  14686. "The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation." - Sandra Day O'Connor

  14687. "The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation." - John Torode

  14688. "I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself." - Metro Boomin

  14689. "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise." - George Washington Carver

  14690. "There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them." - Michael Moore

  14691. "Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference." - Shari Arison

  14692. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

  14693. "I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that." - Vanilla Ice

  14694. "My mind's my kingdom." - Francis Quarles

  14695. "I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life." - Laila Rouass

  14696. "I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it." - Suresh Raina

  14697. "My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort." - Mary H.K. Choi

  14698. "I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'" - Ireland Baldwin

  14699. "Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch." - Malaika Arora Khan

  14700. "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  14701. "I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several." - Alastair Reynolds

  14702. "My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi." - Fred Armisen

  14703. "Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." - Kin Hubbard

  14704. "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee." - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  14705. "Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities." - Anthony Scaramucci

  14706. "I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet." - Kylie Jenner

  14707. "The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted." - Olivia Williams

  14708. "I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch." - Jose Mourinho

  14709. "The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school." - Alice Cooper

  14710. "You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing." - Nina Hagen

  14711. "I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force." - Trey Parker

  14712. "I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year." - John Lanchester

  14713. "I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again." - Kareena Kapoor Khan

  14714. "I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important." - Idina Menzel

  14715. "I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically." - Lorde

  14716. "There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out." - Ashton Kutcher

  14717. "It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls." - Katharine Lee Bates

  14718. "Morning or night, I love putting mint or spearmint oil on my temples and the back of my neck. There's this aromatherapy quality of both easing tension and waking you up." - Lily Collins

  14719. "In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country." - Joshua Oppenheimer

  14720. "I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it." - Sonia Sotomayor

  14721. "I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking." - Carol Burnett

  14722. "To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies." - Lionel Blue

  14723. "There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life." - Karisma Kapoor

  14724. "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness." - Han Suyin

  14725. "The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success." - Jack Canfield

  14726. "For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning." - Jack Klugman

  14727. "I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun." - John John Florence

  14728. "I just say to anyone in life or in sport, don't let defeat bother you and don't let no one say you can't. Stay focused and stay positive and keep working hard." - Rocky Fielding

  14729. "Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition." - Fred Melamed

  14730. "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu

  14731. "We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

  14732. "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

  14733. "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols." - Tori Amos

  14734. "Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do, and that's why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring, got the right training, the right diet, everything." - Mikey Garcia

  14735. "As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas." - Robert Wilson

  14736. "Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

  14737. "There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision." - John Hurt

  14738. "I found that being with happy positive people annoys me." - Karl Pilkington

  14739. "I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life." - Kevin Systrom

  14740. "Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success." - Thomas J. Stanley

  14741. "I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life." - Gabourey Sidibe

  14742. "Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards." - Brad Thor

  14743. "Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense." - Matisyahu

  14744. "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free." - Ray Manzarek

  14745. "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life." - Arthur Ashe

  14746. "You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance." - Sonu Sood

  14747. "Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters." - David Simon

  14748. "I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like." - Kirstin Maldonado

  14749. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." - William Nicholson

  14750. "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." - Tommy Lasorda

  14751. "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." - Pablo Neruda

  14752. "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Francis Bacon

  14753. "I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life." - Connie Britton

  14754. "Wonder is the basis of worship." - Thomas Carlyle

  14755. "'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie." - Paul Pierce

  14756. "You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame." - MS Dhoni

  14757. "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books." - Alexandra Adornetto

  14758. "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." - Tim Allen

  14759. "There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him." - D. H. Lawrence

  14760. "If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized your religion." - Linda Sarsour

  14761. "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation." - Edmund Burke

  14762. "You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear." - Greg Boyle

  14763. "It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them." - Louis C. K.

  14764. "The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success." - Jack Canfield

  14765. "When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." - Wilma Rudolph

  14766. "I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do." - Rosalind Wiseman

  14767. "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson

  14768. "I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it." - Joel Osteen

  14769. "I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too." - Billy Preston

  14770. "Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." - Tom Robbins

  14771. "I'm a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day." - Eddie the Eagle

  14772. "My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom." - Andrew Rannells

  14773. "Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan." - Alexander Nix

  14774. "I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions." - Stephen Dobyns

  14775. "For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering." - Billy Porter

  14776. "I think that success is having fun." - Bruno Mars

  14777. "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." - Lily Tomlin

  14778. "We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party." - Chad Gilbert

  14779. "The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq." - Rick Springfield

  14780. "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning." - P. J. O'Rourke

  14781. "If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?" - Joy Page

  14782. "When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'" - Franz Wright

  14783. "As knowledge increases, wonder deepens." - Charles Morgan

  14784. "For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are." - Britney Spears

  14785. "God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences." - Rodrigo Duterte

  14786. "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

  14787. "Christmas is over and Business is Business." - Franklin Pierce Adams

  14788. "I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you." - Liu Yang

  14789. "Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment." - Marsha Sinetar

  14790. "As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique gifts." - Katie McGinty

  14791. "The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do." - Deborah Norville

  14792. "It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way." - Flo Rida

  14793. "Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success." - Taylor Lautner

  14794. "Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed." - T. B. Joshua

  14795. "I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers." - Holly Black

  14796. "Blame is for God and small children." - Dustin Hoffman

  14797. "The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery." - David Brainerd

  14798. "I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive." - Chris Coleman

  14799. "Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive." - Rich Brian

  14800. "The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return." - Robert Solow

  14801. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

  14802. "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success." - Zig Ziglar

  14803. "For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first." - Queen Elizabeth II

  14804. "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male." - Julia Child

  14805. "It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it." - Susan Hill

  14806. "The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade." - Rachel Campos-Duffy

  14807. "The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." - Edward Everett Hale

  14808. "Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside." - Willard Scott

  14809. "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan

  14810. "So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values." - Bill Rancic

  14811. "There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me." - Lana Condor

  14812. "Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over." - Shannon Bream

  14813. "My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out." - Jess Walter

  14814. "The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'" - Billy Graham

  14815. "I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender." - Brian Eno

  14816. "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out." - Michael Korda

  14817. "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." - Shah Rukh Khan

  14818. "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are." - Kirstie Alley

  14819. "I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug." - Peter Mayle

  14820. "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs

  14821. "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt Romney

  14822. "I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it." - Joel Osteen

  14823. "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift." - Liam Neeson

  14824. "One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful." - Thomas Arnold

  14825. "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14826. "My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays." - George Takei

  14827. "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits." - Gustav Klimt

  14828. "But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness." - John Podhoretz

  14829. "First of all, I try to be a positive role model." - Caitlyn Jenner

  14830. "Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals." - Barton Gellman

  14831. "We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me." - Petra Collins

  14832. "On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend." - Eliot Sumner

  14833. "I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute." - Betty Williams

  14834. "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens

  14835. "My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'" - Mitchell Trubisky

  14836. "I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up." - Kirsten Dunst

  14837. "Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish." - Bradley Wiggins

  14838. "There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look." - Jorja Smith

  14839. "I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out." - Simon Toyne

  14840. "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

  14841. "There are so many things in life that divide us, that separate us and tear us apart, be it race, religion, creed, socioeconomic level, nationality or any variety of other factors. But running is something that we all share in common." - Dean Karnazes

  14842. "Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news." - Ethel Waters

  14843. "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still." - Phillips Brooks

  14844. "I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn." - Joanna Lumley

  14845. "I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me." - Dove Cameron

  14846. "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." - Phylicia Rashad

  14847. "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson

  14848. "We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions." - Eric Liu

  14849. "Thanksgiving is a big one for our family." - Kevin Jonas

  14850. "It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night." - Scott Michael Foster

  14851. "A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church." - Emile Durkheim

  14852. "I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors." - Joel Osteen

  14853. "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed." - Emily Dickinson

  14854. "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

  14855. "One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them." - Roy H. Williams

  14856. "Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension." - Edmund Hillary

  14857. "One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!" - Mac DeMarco

  14858. "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." - Arthur Helps

  14859. "St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week." - Brunello Cucinelli

  14860. "'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting." - Zachary Knighton

  14861. "I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement." - Pete Rose

  14862. "The most positive men are the most credulous." - Alexander Pope

  14863. "The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist." - Richard Coles

  14864. "I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details." - Albert Einstein

  14865. "I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight." - Ann Aguirre

  14866. "God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires." - Francis Bacon

  14867. "Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast." - Carl Reiner

  14868. "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed." - Emily Dickinson

  14869. "My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis." - Kumail Nanjiani

  14870. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen." - Phillip Adams

  14871. "I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal." - Emeril Lagasse

  14872. "I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and everything, I have a half cup of warm lemon water. I've been doing that forever. I love it. It just brightens everything for me." - Grace Hightower

  14873. "I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party." - Kirstie Alley

  14874. "The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that." - John Perkins

  14875. "I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive." - Mark McGwire

  14876. "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  14877. "Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet." - Robert Charles Winthrop

  14878. "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." - Sean Combs

  14879. "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone." - Abu Bakar Bashir

  14880. "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." - Khalil Gibran

  14881. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein

  14882. "If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional." - Angelina Jolie

  14883. "Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration." - Jamie Johnson

  14884. "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people." - B. R. Ambedkar

  14885. "As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle." - Taboo

  14886. "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac

  14887. "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed." - Nikos Kazantzakis

  14888. "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson

  14889. "I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow." - Tom Araya

  14890. "I take part in every training session, morning and afternoon, to make sure I'm fit enough." - Rivaldo

  14891. "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't." - Morrissey

  14892. "If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game." - Scott Adams

  14893. "The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God." - Ellen G. White

  14894. "By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations." - Kate Winslet

  14895. "I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that." - Gordon Lightfoot

  14896. "I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention." - Graham Elliot

  14897. "Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy." - Victoria Osteen

  14898. "Christmas albums are not something you do frequently." - Isaac Hanson

  14899. "As soon as I became a mom, my birthday stopped having any meaning whatsoever." - Marisol Nichols

  14900. "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." - Bernard Williams

  14901. "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." - Pope Francis

  14902. "The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line." - Joe Garcia

  14903. "Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)." - Janet Napolitano

  14904. "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." - Larry Ellison

  14905. "Every year NYC hosts one of the world's most famous Easter Parade. Each year attendees and participants show up in their Sunday best and as tradition states, with Easter bonnets in tow." - Hilary Farr

  14906. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." - Joel Osteen

  14907. "I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous." - Chrissy Teigen

  14908. "Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world." - Kirstin Maldonado

  14909. "My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward." - Michelle Huneven

  14910. "I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you." - Rohit Shetty

  14911. "I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me." - Dwight L. Moody

  14912. "Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me." - Stevie Nicks

  14913. "I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips." - Sue Perkins

  14914. "I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." - Bertrand Russell

  14915. "My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings." - Dan Gable

  14916. "I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love." - Olivia De Havilland

  14917. "Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy." - Liv Tyler

  14918. "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself." - Celine Dion

  14919. "I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom." - Candace Cameron Bure

  14920. "Reason is God's crowning gift to man." - Sophocles

  14921. "Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive." - Kelly Rowland

  14922. "I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language." - Jessye Norman

  14923. "I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers." - Mother Angelica

  14924. "Surround yourself with positive people." - Melanie Fiona

  14925. "It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes." - Catherine Oxenberg

  14926. "If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself." - Mae Martin

  14927. "I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill." - Allen Ginsberg

  14928. "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go." - Pearl Bailey

  14929. "When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel." - Leslie Jordan

  14930. "The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars." - Anand Mahindra

  14931. "For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes." - Chris Evans

  14932. "My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way." - Christen Press

  14933. "It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline." - Harvey Mackay

  14934. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - James M. Barrie

  14935. "Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world." - Cameron Russell

  14936. "I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country." - Shahid Khan

  14937. "My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds." - Carol Alt

  14938. "A lot of Christmas episodes of comedies are comedies trying to be dramas." - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  14939. "Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution." - Edwin Louis Cole

  14940. "Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it." - Michael Douglas

  14941. "Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work." - Kobe Bryant

  14942. "You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people." - Dennis Kucinich

  14943. "One night I couldn't sleep at three in the morning and I thought, I'm going to color-coordinate my closet. And I did. There's a whole system. It goes from white to black and then all the colors in the middle. Then it goes by tank tops to T-shirts to long sleeves, and then it goes to the next color. Then it goes to sweaters the same way." - Madison Keys

  14944. "I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'" - Katie Nolan

  14945. "I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs." - Wylie Dufresne

  14946. "'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." - Dee Dee Myers

  14947. "The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence." - Moses Mendelssohn

  14948. "Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy." - Ray Stevenson

  14949. "We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord." - Fred Hammond

  14950. "Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling." - Naveen Jain

  14951. "My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith." - Allyson Felix

  14952. "We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'" - Vicki Lawrence

  14953. "When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done." - Chuck Schumer

  14954. "I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'" - Craig David

  14955. "I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win." - Mary J. Blige

  14956. "There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother." - Diego Luna

  14957. "Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings." - Kelly LeBrock

  14958. "It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day." - Marilu Henner

  14959. "And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear." - Rachel Hunter

  14960. "Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology." - Vinod Khosla

  14961. "Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God." - Billy Graham

  14962. "When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns." - Michelle Obama

  14963. "My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world." - Casey Wilson

  14964. "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

  14965. "I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success." - Monte Irvin

  14966. "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you." - Jay-Z

  14967. "You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance." - Sonu Sood

  14968. "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter." - Walt Disney

  14969. "There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination." - Jeb Bush

  14970. "At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake." - Goran Ivanisevic

  14971. "I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!" - Eric Stonestreet

  14972. "I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong." - Bill Nye

  14973. "I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We're seeing intriguing things, but we really don't know what's in there." - Alan Stern

  14974. "For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'" - Daisy Lowe

  14975. "The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir." - Greg Graffin

  14976. "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." - Thomas Jefferson

  14977. "I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me." - Shashi Tharoor

  14978. "Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones." - Richard Dawkins

  14979. "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business." - Jeff Bezos

  14980. "The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him." - Charles Stanley

  14981. "There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter." - Gordon B. Hinckley

  14982. "I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'" - Jocelyn Bell Burnell

  14983. "First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful." - Barry Manilow

  14984. "Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie." - Sayed Kashua

  14985. "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else." - Jessie J

  14986. "I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time." - Jeremy Corbyn

  14987. "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness." - Carrie Fisher

  14988. "There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me." - Chris Cornell

  14989. "My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun." - Miranda Cosgrove

  14990. "When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more." - Nick Saban

  14991. "To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world." - Kat Graham

  14992. "My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began." - Christopher Fowler

  14993. "I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!" - Kelly Osbourne

  14994. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do." - Gian Carlo Menotti

  14995. "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere." - Flora Lewis

  14996. "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell." - Charles Spurgeon

  14997. "There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me." - Cobie Smulders

  14998. "Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost." - David Mamet

  14999. "If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today." - Jack Canfield

  15000. "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

  15001. "I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone." - Rachel Platten

  15002. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." - George Horace Lorimer

  15003. "When I was 13, my mom said she had a dream that I would win Miss Universe in a red dress." - Catriona Gray

  15004. "My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?" - Ja Rule

  15005. "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard

  15006. "One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with." - June Carter Cash

  15007. "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." - George Bernard Shaw

  15008. "I've never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life." - David Beckham

  15009. "You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  15010. "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve." - John B. S. Haldane

  15011. "Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle." - Eliezer Yudkowsky

  15012. "Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it." - Leigh-Allyn Baker

  15013. "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." - Irv Kupcinet

  15014. "In the morning I drink a big glass of water with lemon, a pinch of baking soda and maple syrup." - Camille Rowe

  15015. "My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play." - J. J. Watt

  15016. "I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you're a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook." - Gunnar Peterson

  15017. "Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas." - Billy Graham

  15018. "The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother." - Dorothy Fields

  15019. "I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers." - Tony Bradman

  15020. "The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space." - Michio Kaku

  15021. "If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken." - Parineeti Chopra

  15022. "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

  15023. "God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion." - Huston Smith

  15024. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

  15025. "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?" - Emma Goldman

  15026. "Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has." - Christine Pelosi

  15027. "It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive." - Freya Tingley

  15028. "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

  15029. "'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical." - Jessie Mueller

  15030. "I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all." - Marissa Jaret Winokur

  15031. "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people." - John Henrik Clarke

  15032. "Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well." - R. Madhavan

  15033. "Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones." - Kay Redfield Jamison

  15034. "Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco." - Chip Conley

  15035. "I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday." - Prabhas

  15036. "There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself." - Dave Davies

  15037. "Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?" - Sayed Kashua

  15038. "My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't." - LP

  15039. "Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  15040. "To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law." - William Tyndale

  15041. "I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic." - Denis Thatcher

  15042. "Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code." - Michael Dirda

  15043. "Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave." - Padgett Powell

  15044. "There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs." - Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  15045. "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him." - John Clayton

  15046. "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." - Amy Grant

  15047. "When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power." - Ezra Taft Benson

  15048. "I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can." - Mindy McCready

  15049. "Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me." - Anna Held

  15050. "It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation." - Tina Brown

  15051. "Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work." - Samina Baig

  15052. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

  15053. "At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child." - Queen Elizabeth II

  15054. "'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain." - Mason Ramsey

  15055. "I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief." - Nick Cave

  15056. "I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done." - Sushant Singh Rajput

  15057. "Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested." - Reshma Saujani

  15058. "Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays." - Michael Birch

  15059. "We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith." - Barack Obama

  15060. "Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!" - David O. McKay

  15061. "Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine." - Damaris Phillips

  15062. "There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver." - Corey Taylor

  15063. "The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record." - KRS-One

  15064. "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." - Michael Jackson

  15065. "My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life." - Dikembe Mutombo

  15066. "Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude." - Michelle Obama

  15067. "I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week." - Lana Parrilla

  15068. "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." - Phylicia Rashad

  15069. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

  15070. "It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success." - Brian Armstrong

  15071. "I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse." - Susanne Bier

  15072. "Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature." - John Burroughs

  15073. "When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!" - Todrick Hall

  15074. "I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it." - Justin Bieber

  15075. "When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together." - Tyler Posey

  15076. "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it." - Mitt Romney

  15077. "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy." - Mike Mills

  15078. "My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it." - Alex Lifeson

  15079. "I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde." - Rita Ora

  15080. "I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner." - Miley Cyrus

  15081. "Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different." - Mary H.K. Choi

  15082. "It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head." - Bono

  15083. "Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling." - Sarah Parcak

  15084. "My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life." - Sarah Paulson

  15085. "Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business." - Richard Branson

  15086. "Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds." - Chino Moreno

  15087. "Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists." - Bill O'Reilly

  15088. "I'm sponsored by the solar company Goal Zero, and they were gracious enough to install panels on my van and a nice battery system for the inside. I have lights and a fridge inside the van. And of course I had panels installed on my mom's house." - Alex Honnold

  15089. "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

  15090. "There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning." - Phyllis Logan

  15091. "I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God." - Laurence Fishburne

  15092. "The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?" - Pamela Druckerman

  15093. "Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone." - Asif Kapadia

  15094. "There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space." - Rakesh Sharma

  15095. "I've always wanted to be a mom." - Holly Madison

  15096. "A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences." - John Lasseter

  15097. "Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive." - Aleister Black

  15098. "If you stick around long eno