Always Quotes

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Anything simple always interests me.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.