Quotes

"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

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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

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

"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.

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"Belief creates the actual fact." - William James

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

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

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

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

"There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles

"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

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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"Flowers are