Dave Matthews Quotes

My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

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

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.

There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

Giving is most important to show the less fortunate that you don't give up. You always want to live a better life.

The world needs voices that are positive and grateful, and that can be me.

There are no George Baileys anymore.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.