Best Canada Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When I was growing up, I felt like no one gave Canadians a chance. And now that they see we have quality in Canada and it's amazing to see.”

“Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.”

“It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.”

“We all know there are vast differences between Trump and Trudeau as people, but we need to separate that from the pursuit of the mutual interests of the United States and Canada.”

“In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.”

“Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.”

“Here in Canada, I haven't people, I haven't family, I haven't friends. So I'm not happy here.”

“I've never been to Canada in my life.”

“Every Hockey Canada event, the first day you just do a thousand interviews. You get used to it.”

“Bringing a championship to the city of Toronto and the country of Canada has been one the best things I've done so far in my career, and I'll push for that goal every single year I play this game.”

“To improve humanity's chances of survival, it is critical that Canada assume a leadership role, first ramping up our own ambition and then pushing for more ambition overall in global negotiations.”

“You have to look at what the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous people says which is free and prior informed consent. Now, if you say 'we're going to build a pipeline, what does it take for us as the colonial power of Canada to make you agree?' That's not free, prior and informed consent, that's coercion.”

“The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.”

“Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.”

“Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.”

“If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.”

“I've had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.”

“The country I most admire is Canada, the one I've served my whole life.”

“The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.”

“Veterans need employment opportunities and the development of a Hire a Veteran culture in Canada.”

“We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.”

“I've come to learn it's a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.”

“Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.”

“I lived in Canada when I was younger and my parents bought a 1970s caravan. My earliest holiday memory is driving it down the East Coast of the United States to Florida, where we went to Walt Disney World.”

“I've seen Canada grow on so many different levels when it comes to basketball. The women's game is huge, so why not have a WNBA team here?”

“Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I've also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.”

“I'm proud of Toronto. I'm proud of Canada. I'm proud of the NBA. I'm very proud of it.”

“Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.”

“I am proud of the work that I have done in the Sikh community and across Canada.”

“Increasingly, we're seeing two worlds in Canada. The world for most Canadians is increasingly unaffordable, involves more precarious work, and is a harder place in which to get by. The second world is an exclusive club for the wealthy and well-connected who get special access and are exempt from rules the rest of us play by.”

“I went to a wrestling school in Canada. That did not work out well, I think I was out there for like a week.”

“I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.”

“Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.”

“I think not only Canada but the world as a whole is called upon to really choose leaders who can generate unity and compassion throughout the world. This is how you find peace, right?”

“A good 60 per cent of my time I spend travelling, mostly to the U.S., Canada and Germany.”

“There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.”

“Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.”

“I think that we are blessed to live here in Canada.”

“People will come up to me at live events or wherever and have me sign Canadian flags or the old 'Team Canada' shirt and have me talk about those days back in 'Team Canada,' so it's a moment that I'm proud of.”

“I support the need for Canada to play a significant role in reducing global emissions.”

“At the end of the day, I'm from Canada, and so there will never be a time when I'm suddenly not Canadian.”

“Being from Canada, we never had, like, the basketball games live on TV.”

“I like Canada. The fans here are great. It's always good to come up here with some good energy.”

“I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.”

“Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary.”

“I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.”

“The attitude is different in the U.S. I feel like, in Canada, there is more of a sense of community and more of a sense of, 'I'll take the shirt off my back to help you because you're my neighbour.' There is not many of us, right? So each and every Canadian is very special.”

“NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.”

“My football career was so filled with energy and impactful, as a University of Miami player and the things I did in Canada, that I left a good mark. I left a good impression.”

“If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.”

“I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.”

“Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.”

“At a very young age in Canada, I had mapped out that my mission in life and my passion was live events.”

“Wrestlers from Japan and Canada are very tough.”

“I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.”

“I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.”

“I'm proud to say that we are the party of Canada's first prime minister, the father of our federation, and the visionary who made this land possible.”

“Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.”

“The biggest pop star in the world shouldn't be a boring white kid from Canada - the biggest pop star in the world should be a creative black kid from Texas that doesn't know how to come out to his family - that's a way more interesting story, and it gives a new type of kid some hope.”

“In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.”

“A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow.”

“I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.”

“A lot of the best technologists live and work in Canada, and every once in a while, they are aggregated by a Canadian company, and then suddenly, they're not anymore. But the people are still here - they're just working for American companies to the benefit of American bottom lines.”

“I go to Canada at least every two years.”

“NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.”

“One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose.”

“If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.”

“In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.”

“I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career has been over here.”

“We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.”

“I'd love to shoot something in Toronto; I'd love to bring something to Canada. I'm dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I'm from.”

“I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.”

“Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.”

“My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.”

“I think it's because Toronto is the Gothenburg of Canada, with the trends and the music and everything. I feel very at home when I'm there. Everyone has always been so kind to me.”

“The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.”

“There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.”

“The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.”

“In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.”

“I've closed factories in Mexico and brought those jobs back to the United States. I've closed factories in Canada and brought those jobs back to the United States.”

“Canada has been phenomenal to myself, my brother, my sister, their kids, my parents. They came there. They worked very hard. They came with a great education, very good heads on their shoulders with the simple thought of going there with almost nothing and just saying, 'We're doing this to give our kids the best opportunity possible.'”

“Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special.”

“Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.”

“I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.”

“We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase - long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.”

“In the U.S. and Canada, we have one store for every 12,000 people.”

“In Canada, things are very honest.”

“One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'”

“I don't think Canada is very inexpensive anymore. I travel there all the time; it's rather on the expensive side. I think there's significant risk to the Canadian economy.”

“Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French.”

“It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.”

“Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.”

“One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.”

“In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It's like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn't finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.”

“I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.”

“Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?”

“Chia Chang, the Washington correspondent for the privately owned Taipei news organization 'United Daily News,' was told to leave the ICAO building after producing a Taiwanese passport to ICAO media accreditation officials. Canada recognizes Taiwanese passports. Beijing does not.”

“It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.”

“The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.”

“Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.”