Top 60 Contagious Quotes

Happiness is very powerful and contagious.

Winning is definitely contagious.

I think it’s obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It’s just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.

Shooting’s contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There’s an enthusiasm that’s absolutely contagious.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you’re overwhelmed by his talent. He’s so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won’t have to.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I’m as heterosexual as any person need be. I’m open about my relationships – or lack thereof – in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn’t contagious. It’s not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.

Elephants are contagious.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious… This is a message of reassurance.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Pay attention to other people’s nightmares because they might be contagious.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

There’s something contagious about demanding freedom.

If I meet somebody and I’m like, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ And you give somebody a hug, or a half-hug, and they stank and it rubs off on me, that is contagious ’cause I’ll be smelling like roses and then it’s like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I’ll change shirts and I’m still funky.

It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Emotions are contagious. We’ve all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

I think that protecting children at the age where they’re most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

Your attitude is contagious.

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

If you go in there with a mindset that you’re gonna turn things around and make that contagious, and people start to believe in it, you can turn into a winning program wherever you go.

When doing something you love, no matter what you’d be getting paid or think the outcome might be, not only will you enjoy yourself more, but you have a better chance of actually creating a sustainable life. Happiness is contagious.

Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs – a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I believe inspiration is contagious.

The youthful vibe Nashville exudes is intoxicating and contagious, especially amongst the culinary scene, which lures so many great young chefs to places like City House and Rolf and Daughters.

I don’t think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea – which can be very persistent and irritating – that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Confidence has not always been something I had in my whole life. But when I found it? Man you don’t have to be confident in every area of your life. Just grab something you’re confident about, and if you coast on that it’ll spill over to other areas in your life. Confidence is contagious, you know?

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it’s contagious.

The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball’s not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it’s contagious.

Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them.

When you have somebody out there that’s willing to work for the team first, that’s contagious. In Phoenix, I learned that from Steve Nash, Grant Hill, so many different guys. When you’re playing with somebody like Steve, like Grant, that just passes on to you.

For me, it’s about trying to do everything I can to help us win. Try to bring that energy every night, try to make it as contagious as possible and try to win a game.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

I’ve had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won’t go away – kind of like a virus. I don’t go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I’m contagious.

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

When the Asian flu hit the United States in 1957, during the Eisenhower administration, it was just the latest contagion college students had faced in a lifetime of contagious diseases.