Top 60 Kathie Lee Gifford Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you settle for what you’ve got, you deserve what you get.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

2. “I don’t believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

3. “Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

4. “A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

5. “Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

6. “Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

7. “Love in the real world means saying you’re sorry 10 times a day.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

8. “I’m not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith – true relationship – releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That’s what I’m interested in.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

9. “The way to overcome the impossible has always been the same. Don’t fear the giants. The Lord is with you always. Just believe and fight! You already have the victory.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

10. “I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

11. “Romans 8:28 tells us, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

12. “I think when you’ve gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody’s been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband’s been unfaithful to you, you know what that’s like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

13. “I’m post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don’t know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

14. “A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all – losing it all.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

15. “I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

16. “I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I’m fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

17. “I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I’ll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It’s thrilling.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

18. “People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

19. “Caesarea Philippi was the “Sin City” of Israel, where the people worshiped Caesar, Baal, and Pan through sexual immorality and wild partying.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

20. “What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

21. “We’re imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

22. “I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

23. “I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, ‘If drag queens love you, you’ll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.’”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

24. “I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

25. “We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

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26. “Miracles is the sort of book that once you’ve read it you’ll wonder where it’s been all your life.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

27. “What a dire time to be attracted to men.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

28. “No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for – ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We’re racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

29. “I wasn’t ever interested in marrying someone else’s career or bank account.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

30. “For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

31. “Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody’s Ivana Trump.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

32. “I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

33. “If I prayed as much as I pluck, I’d be the Dalai Lama.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

34. “They don’t call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

35. “If I’m in love I want to get married. That’s how stupid I am.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

36. “I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

37. “If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

38. “People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

39. “Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

40. “If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

41. “Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

42. “Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

43. “I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

44. “Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

45. “Just because I’m happy doesn’t mean I’m shallow.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

46. “It’s no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

47. “Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

48. “I want to be free and free indeed and live and live abundant!”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

49. “The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford

50. “God didn’t bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.”

— Kathie Lee Gifford