Stevie Wonder Quotes

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.

Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

I am all for stem cell research.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend Never communicating with the one who lives within.

For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow My love smiles to me each morning Says she'll never leave me And I know it's so

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

The way the world is right now, we need more love.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.