Saying Yes Quotes

No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won't make you Wonder Woman. It'll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you'll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your 'less' instead of your 'best' because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Love is saying yes to belonging.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'