Patrick Stump Quotes

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

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.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

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

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.

I'm a nice guy. I'm trying to be positive. I've got my own things, I'm kinda crazy but I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm trying to be good and I'm doing the best I can. Just like everybody else.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

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

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.