Up To You Quotes

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you to stop it.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker."

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.