Gloria Estefan Quotes

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

I want to touch people's lives, and bring them along with me.

Leave people better than you found them.

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.