Hugh Downs Quotes

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

If you will change, things will change for you.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

I do believe in self-help.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

You change your life by changing your heart.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Do something about your life now.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.