Mary J. Blige famous quotes

03-28-2025

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Beautiful #Who I Am #Perfect
Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Love Is #Wonderful
When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Real #Life Is #Smooth
My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Responsibility
Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Doe
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Jobs #Reflection #Inner Peace
Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Powerful #People #Negative
You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Respect #Giving #Firsts
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Inner Peace #World
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Children #Parenting #Would Be
You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Hate #Say Anything #Want
In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Mistake #Love You #Valleys
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Sorry #Party #Responsibility
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Beautiful #Hate #Animal
I'm searching for a real love.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Real #Real Love
The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Believe #Heart #People
It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Winning #Win Or Lose
Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Love You #Views #Hype
It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Hurt #Want #It Hurts
You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
-- Mary J. Blige
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Mother #Spiritual #Children
I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mother
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Elements #Made #Streets
I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Perfection #Way #My Way
I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Goal #Trying #Doe
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Music #Song #Giving
Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
-- Mary J. Blige

#People #Decision #Trials
I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Apples #Vines #Cider
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Hurt #Reading #Contracts
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
-- Mary J. Blige

#Thinking #Done #Labels

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