Ann Curry Quotes

“If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.”

— Ann Curry

It's time to be bold about who you really are.

— Ann Curry

“Journalism is an act of faith in the future”

— Ann Curry

“I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.”

— Ann Curry

“Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.”

— Ann Curry

“I don't always understand my worth.”

— Ann Curry

“In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'”

— Ann Curry

“I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.”

— Ann Curry

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

— Ann Curry

“I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.”

— Ann Curry

“My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'”

— Ann Curry

“When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.”

— Ann Curry

“I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.”

— Ann Curry

“Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.”

— Ann Curry

“When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.”

— Ann Curry

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

— Ann Curry

“World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.”

— Ann Curry

“Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature ... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.”

— Ann Curry

Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning

— Ann Curry

“I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.”

— Ann Curry

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.

— Ann Curry