Richard Simmons Quotes

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

I start small. I'm kind to people. I say please, I say thank you, and I always try to be encouraging and positive.

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'