Top 25 Walter Anderson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Focus on the solution, not the problem.”

— Walter Anderson

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2. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

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3. “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

— Walter Anderson

4. “The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!”

— Walter Anderson

5. “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”

— Walter Anderson

6. “I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.”

— Walter Anderson

7. “If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.”

— Walter Anderson

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8. “You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.”

— Walter Anderson

9. “Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.”

— Walter Anderson

10. “The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.”

— Walter Anderson

11. “I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.”

— Walter Anderson

12. “Our lives improve only when we take chances.”

— Walter Anderson

13. “Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.”

— Walter Anderson

14. “True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.”

— Walter Anderson

15. “Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are.”

— Walter Anderson

16. “Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It’s sound advice.”

— Walter Anderson

17. “It is your choices that make you uniquely you...”

— Walter Anderson

18. “Nothing quells anxiety like action!”

— Walter Anderson

19. “Beware by whom you are called sane.”

— Walter Anderson

20. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.”

— Walter Anderson

21. “True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort...”

— Walter Anderson

22. “True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.”

— Walter Anderson

23. “Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.”

— Walter Anderson

24. “How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.”

— Walter Anderson

25. “You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.”

— Walter Anderson

26. “Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.”

— Walter Anderson

27. “I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

28. “Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.”

— Walter Anderson