Maria Shriver famous quotes

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
-- Maria Shriver

#Perfect #Perfectionism #Feels

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.
-- Maria Shriver

#Graduation #Opposites #Rushing

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
-- Maria Shriver

#Art #Carpe Diem #Unique

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
-- Maria Shriver

#Simple #Hands #World

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.
-- Maria Shriver

#Definitions #Want #Kind

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.
-- Maria Shriver

#Shoulders

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
-- Maria Shriver

#Mother #Journey #Giving

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
-- Maria Shriver

#Believe #Gutters #Journalism

We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.
-- Maria Shriver

#Angel #Compassion #Cities

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.
-- Maria Shriver

#Animal #Cookies #Sugar

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.
-- Maria Shriver

#Success #Order #Needs

Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.
-- Maria Shriver

#Inspirational #Jobs #Children

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.
-- Maria Shriver

#Being Yourself #Self Esteem #Armor

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.
-- Maria Shriver

#Fall #Trying #Roles

Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you!
-- Maria Shriver

#Mother #Mistake #Love You

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.
-- Maria Shriver

#Stupid #Age #Matter

Well-behaved women never make history.
-- Maria Shriver

#Inspirational #Wells

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
-- Maria Shriver

#People #Trying #Special

you are the leader you've been looking for
-- Maria Shriver

#Leader

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?
-- Maria Shriver

#What If #Trying #Wonder

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
-- Maria Shriver

#Parent #Disease

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!
-- Maria Shriver

#Dream #Perfect #Goal

Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.
-- Maria Shriver

#Thinking #Voice #Advice

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.
-- Maria Shriver

#Life #Laughter #Needs

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.
-- Maria Shriver

#Relationship #Voice #Use

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.
-- Maria Shriver

#Falling In Love #Journey #Looks

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?
-- Maria Shriver

#Motherhood #Men #Humanity

I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.
-- Maria Shriver

#Inspirational #Graduation #Bird

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?
-- Maria Shriver

#Funny Inspirational #Accomplishment #What If

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
-- Maria Shriver

#Looks #How You Feel #Way

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.
-- Maria Shriver

#Portraits #Moments #Accurate

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.
-- Maria Shriver

#Sex #Battle #Negotiation

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.
-- Maria Shriver

#Jobs #Identity #Losing

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?
-- Maria Shriver

#Gone #Today #Lost

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
-- Maria Shriver

#Thinking #Wish #Tough

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.
-- Maria Shriver

#Holiday #Kids #Night

Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'
-- Maria Shriver

#Beautiful #Girl #Strong