If I Stay Quotes

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

I stay positive because it's the only way to live. When I play ball, I play hardball.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

Always stay true to yourselves.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you.

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

I celebrate my people a lot and that's why people stay with me as long as they do.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

For me, it's always Christ first and playing the right way for Christ. If I do that, everything else will take care of itself. When I stay focused on that, there's no pressure to worry about.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

You always have to stay true to yourself.