Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.

When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.

I say all the time when someone asks me how I am, 'I woke up today, I'm alive.' Basically meaning people complain about so much, but you know what... you're alive. Some people don't wake up.

I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Ma'am, when I got up this morning, I didn't want to be jackass. You just pushed my jackass button.

If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.

I will never forget that there are millions of other people who would be dying to be in my position. I’m not going to be an actress who doesn’t appreciate what she has.

You gotta remember I was homeless. Whenever I think I have something to complain about. I go outside, walk across the street and look at my home, and remind myself of the time I was living on the damn lakefront in a car full of garbage bags with clothes, and ask myself, "What do you possibly have to be upset about?" I have nothing to complain about.

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.