Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

Iyanla Vanzant

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Business
  • Feeling
  • Perspective

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Day
  • Leadership

• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

  

  Candice Olson
  • World
  • Trust
  • Design

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• Life is our dictionary.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Dictionary
  • Our

• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• And that's why in my Gujarat, my motto is: minimum government, maximum governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Why

• A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

  

  Eric Close

• Working out, no matter what time of the night, rejuvenates me. At times, I don't feel sleepy after a workout session, as I am all fresh and charged up, and I don't mind compromising on my sleep.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon - not so much outside of the Octagon - but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don't feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.

  

  Jon Jones
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Fashion

• My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Good
  • Teach
  • Role