Maria Shriver Quotes

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

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.

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.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. 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 the...

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

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 al...

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.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was j...

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

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You’ll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

Let’s not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

But I’ve learned that living in either the past or the future keeps me up in my head, out of reality, robbing me of the present.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently...

Courage is walking through your fear with faith.

Opportunity becomes a family tradition when we design programs and policies with the whole family’s educational and economic future in mind and help them access the social networks needed to make it i...