List Of 50 Dolly Parton Quotes About Life, Love, and Strength:
#1 “Prayer is not a formal affair, it’s more a come-as-you-are.”
#2 “Never ignore your roots, your home, or your hair.”
#3 “I never felt I belonged. Never belonged in my whole life, even as a little kid. I was just different and so I never really found my place till I moved to Nashville and got in the music business. That was my real place, so I fit in.”
#4 “Now people are always asking me, What do you want people to say about you 100 years from now?’ I always say I want them to say ‘Dang, don’t she still look good for her age.’”
#5 “I’m just a simple country girl.”
#6 “I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything.”
#7 “I’m a working girl. I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.”
#8 “I say that I’m as old as yesterday, but hopefully as new as tomorrow.”
#9 “Me and God have a great relationship, but we’re both seeing other people.”
#10 “I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.”
#11 “I’m all about women, I’m all about empowering women, but I’m all about empowering all people – love and respect and uplifting [them].”
#12 “Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.”
#13 “I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.”
#14 “I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.”
#15 “If you see someone without a smile give them yours.”
#16 “The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.”
#17 “If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.”
#18 “When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”
#19 “People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.”
#20 “I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give ’em yours!”
#21 “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb–and I’m not blonde either.”
#22 “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
#23 “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
#24 “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
#25 “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
#26 “You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.”
#27 “Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.”
#28 “You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.”
#29 “I always wanted to be famous, but nobody could have thought of the extent it became. I’ll see a whole wall of my pictures somewhere, and I’ll wonder ‘How did that happen?’ It’s more a joy than a surprise.”
#30 “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
#31 “I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.”
#32 “Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.”
#33 “Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are.”
#34 “You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.”
#35 “When I got somethin’ to say, I’ll say it.”
#36 “When I got somethin’ to say, I’ll say it.”
#37 “My songs are like my children—I expect them to support me when I’m old.”
#38 “I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.”
#39 ” I’m just proud that country music is that popular. Everybody has a right to sing it, if they feel it, and if they love it. If you can sing country music and you love it, I’m just proud that it’s become [big].”
#40 “I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”
#41 “I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.”
#42 “We need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, otherwise we just become egomaniacs. If you don’t have something to look forward to and lean on, it’s a hard fall when [bad] things happen.”
#43 “We just gotta do our best day-to-day, be the best person we can, do the best work we can, and just keep on dreamin’.”
#44 “I ask God every day to lead me, guide me and direct me, to take the wrong people out of my life, put the right people in. As I get older, I’m even stronger in my faith.”
#45 “I’ve had to walk around a few people, jump over a few of ‘em now and then, but I think you’re a true success when you’ve seen your dreams come true and you can take pride in how you did it, and take pride in and respect and appreciate the people that helped you get there.”
#46 “People feel like they’ve known me so long because I’ve been around a long time. I’m really like an aunt or a cousin or a person you’ve grown up with—like somebody in the family.”
#47 “I did grow up in the church, but sometimes that church can even go against you. Because I also grew up in a church where they criticized and condemned and so many things were a sin.”
#48 “Smile, it increases your face value.”
#49 “I was born with a happy heart. I’m always looking for things to be better.”
#50 “I’m proud of my hillbilly, white trash background. To me that keeps you humble, that keeps you good.”