Michael J. Fox Quotes

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• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Expectations, Unhappy

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• Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

  Michael J. Fox

  Challenges, Our Actions, Action

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014

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• Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Motivational, Mean, Acceptance

  "You Have More Power Than You Think" by David Geller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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  One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving Up, Taken, Optimistic

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• If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

  Michael J. Fox

  Feet, Yesterday, Today

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• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Family, Vocabulary Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.

  Michael J. Fox

  Fighting, Son, Cowboy

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Cases, Happens

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• A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Creative, Idle, Mess

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is a decision.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Taken, Choices, Looks

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• I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Positive, People, Action

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Doe, Flukes

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• Optimism is a cure for many things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Optimism, Cures

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• I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Swimming, Fighting

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• I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

  Michael J. Fox

  Knowledge, Inspired, Knows

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• When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

  Michael J. Fox

  Positive, Return, Given

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• There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.

  Michael J. Fox

  Character, Play, Acting

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

  Michael J. Fox

  Next, Right Thing

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

  Michael J. Fox

  Grieving, Space, Denial

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• I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Levels, Infinite

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Possibility, Something Better

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