Saying Yes Quotes

Saying Yes Quote of the day

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.

Love is saying yes to belonging.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.