Patti LaBelle Quotes

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There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

Patti LaBelle

Character, Winning, Doors

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God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

Patti LaBelle

God, Doe, Looks

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Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.

Patti LaBelle

Exit, Entrances, Beginnings And Endings

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All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Patti LaBelle

Crush, Dream, Heart

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 02, 2013

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Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

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Jesus, Needs, Praying

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So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

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Motivational, Mean, Giving

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 07, 2013

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That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

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Relationship, Flower, Love Is

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When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

Patti LaBelle

Spiritual, Godly, May

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Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

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Faith, Strong, Lying

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Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

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Dwelling, Giving, Optimism

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Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Patti LaBelle

Mother, Pain, Dirty

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I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

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Feels, Prove

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In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Patti LaBelle

Heart, Want Something, Matter

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Many a false step is made standing still.

Patti LaBelle

Motivation, Steps, Action

Patti Labelle (2003). “Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine”, p.109, Penguin

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You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

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Angel, Giving

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Dec 19, 2012

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I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

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People, Facts, Accepted

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 06, 2013

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Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

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Anger, Knives, Long

Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.

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Real, Heart, People

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Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

Patti LaBelle

Respect Yourself

"Patti LaBelle: The People’s Diva". Interview with Damainion Ewell, allhiphop.com. June 1, 2004.

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I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

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Happiness, Smile, Laughter

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Aug 30, 2012

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I'll perform all the way to the grave.

Patti LaBelle

Way, Graves

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012

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I've never been with a woman, so I guess I'm straight, OK? But I'm straight enough to know the difference between right and wrong. I am straight enough to know that if you want to marry whoever you want to marry, you should be able to marry whoever you want to marry

Patti LaBelle

Gay, Differences, Want

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When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

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Inspiring, Black And White, People

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 05, 2014

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I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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Success, Giving, Entrepreneur

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 05, 2013

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I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

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Years, Appreciate, Taught

FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012

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