Hoda Kotb Quotes

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them, there's no use getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them, what's the use in getting upset?

Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it's a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it's not about the situation. It's how you deal with it. You always have a choice.