Stevie Wonder Quotes 2021

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Time is long but life is short.

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

Fear’s what puts dreams to sleep.

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

It feels better to love than to hate.

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

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.

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

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

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.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

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

There’s a Place in the Sun, where there’s hope for everyone.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

This is like one thing that I’ve tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

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

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.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

I’m believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

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

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

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

We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they’re a liar.

Problems have solutions.

Love’s in need of love today…don’t delay…send yours in right away

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We can’t live in a place of fear.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

I’m still experimenting.

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 would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn’t sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.

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.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

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

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

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I see the light in your smile.

I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

We have to be respectful to one another.

Just because a record has a groove don’t make it in the groove.

Gun violence is real. People don’t come back.

Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

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 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.

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

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this ‘smell the roses’ kind of thing.