Tyler Perry Quotes - Page 2

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• Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

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  Summer, Jobs, Keys

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• My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

  Tyler Perry

  This Life, Take Me

  "Perry's greatest accomplishment has nothing to do with business" By Andy Segal, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2009.

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• If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.

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  Fall, Trying, Together

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• The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

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  Growing Up, Moving, Important

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• You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

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  Misery, Make Yourself Happy, Prey

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• Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.

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  Dream, Spiritual, People

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• Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

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  Live Life, Earth, Might

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

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  Running, Attitude, Mistake

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• True love can come more than once.

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  "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

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• A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

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  Mother, Powerful, Distance

  "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

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• What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

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  Where You Come, Life Is, This Life

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.20, Penguin

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• People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

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  Hurt, People, Trying

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• God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

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  Integrity, Choices, Way

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

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  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Oprah Talks to Tyler Perry". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December, 2010.

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• Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

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  Black, Black Women, Madea

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, Penguin

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• I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

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  Suicide, Moving, Thinking

  "Tyler Perry recounts childhood abuse on Web site". www.cnn.com. October 6, 2009.

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• I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

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  People, Want, Suspicious

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

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  Helping, Emotion, Music Is

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

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  Simple, People, Matter

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

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  Pain, People, Childhood

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• I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

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  Inspiration, People, Inspire

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• I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

  "Oprah Talks to Tyler Perry". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2010.

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• What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

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  Order, Know How, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

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  People, Grace, Truth Is

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• When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

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  Strong Women, Moving, Heaven

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