Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I think that I’m perfect.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I came up from a difficult background.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I can handle pain.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.