Top 50 Hoda Kotb Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy.”

— Hoda Kotb

2. “I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It’s mood medicine. It’s pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.”

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3. “Tone is often the most important part of a conversation – and listening is so much more important than what you say.”

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4. “It’s OK if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire. – Colette Werden.”

— Hoda Kotb

5. “You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being. – Anita Krizzan.”

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6. “Love the people God gave you, because He will need them back one day.”

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7. “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.”

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8. “It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave. – MANDY HALE.”

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9. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit.”

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10. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone.”

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11. “It’s okay to have a meltdown. Just don’t unpack and live there.”

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12. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve. – Charles F. Glassman.”

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13. “The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.”

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14. “The biggest thing I’ve learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!”

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15. “Smiling does not necessarily mean you’re happy. Sometimes it just means you’re strong.”

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16. “C. S. Lewis, reflected hope for a fresh start and positive year ahead: “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— Hoda Kotb

17. “Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.”

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18. “If we all helped one person, wouldn’t the world be an unbelievable place?”

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19. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. – Ronald Reagan.”

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20. “If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.”

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21. “If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with ‘sad eyes.’ Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.”

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22. “Be careful who you pretend to be. You might forget who you are.”

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23. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but just felt in the heart. – Helen Keller.”

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24. “Home of the free because of the brave.”

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25. “I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn’t seem like such a daunting task anymore.”

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26. “God will, very likely, give you more than you can handle. He will not, however, give you more than He can handle.”

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27. “Life’s not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.”

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28. “In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It’s like you’re watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”

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29. “Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it’s funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.”

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30. “It’s made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it’s a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.”

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31. “I’m good at picking friends.”

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32. “When you’re a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.”

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33. “I can’t remember a time when my mom didn’t work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.”

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34. “Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.”

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35. “I like the pace of my world. It’s busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.”

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36. “One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, ‘Oh, great, now I’m stuck!’ but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.”

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37. “I’m a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!”

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38. “When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl’s insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.”

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39. “I’ve had weight issues all my life. I’ve been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I’m always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.”

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40. “My style is streamlined, sophisticated and simple, so I usually go for a dress. No matching involved. I am bad at matching! I like easy and when you’re done, it looks like a second skin. I wear dresses every day for that reason. It’s easy!”

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41. “Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.”

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42. “I’m an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you’re even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.”

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43. “I’m a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?”

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44. “Hold on tightly to the things you love. And get rid of the things you don’t.”

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45. “I love Jennifer Aniston’s style. She is streamlined and never overdone. And Demi Moore always looks classic, gorgeous and sophisticated.”

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46. “I don’t cook, but I would love to learn.”

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47. “If it weren’t for my breast cancer, I wouldn’t be a ‘Today’ host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I’d have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I’d been through, how could I be scared of being told no?”

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48. “I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.”

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49. “It’s gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I take it out and eat it?”

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50. “There are times when you just have to show people that you’re all in.”

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