Ellen DeGeneres Quotes on Success
It is failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
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While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I’d say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
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Ellen DeGeneres Quotes on Life
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life? winning an Oscar.
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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you’ll have more beads than you know what to do with.
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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
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We’re all supposed to be different. I want so badly to encourage everyone to say, “Who am I and how do I want to live my life?
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Ellen DeGeneres Quotes on Beauty
I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That’s real beauty to me.
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True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
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Inspirational Quotes of Ellen DeGeneres
Accept who you are unless you’re a serial killer.
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Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
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Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
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Do we have to know who’s gay and who’s straight? Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
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Don’t worry about what people say about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.
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Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are.
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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
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Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.
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Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write ‘over’ on the bottom of the letter. Like I’m that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn’t there, I’d get to the bottom of the page: ‘And so Kathy and I went shopping and we–‘ That’s the craziest thing! I don’t know why she would just end it that way.
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Go to bed in your fireplace, you’ll sleep like a log.
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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
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I don’t know what people are scared of. Maybe they think their children will be influenced, but I’ve got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked — heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It’s time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.
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I don’t understand the sizes anymore. There’s a size zero, which I didn’t even know that they had. It must stand for:
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I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.
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I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren’t a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But…I’m a loving, spiritual person.
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I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
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I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I’m just like
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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
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I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego.
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I’m a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you’re supposed to feel all kinds of things.
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I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.
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I’m on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I’m gonna rip it off.
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If someone says you’re weird, say Thank You.
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If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.
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Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.
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Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
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People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.
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Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So procrastinate now, don’t put it off.
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Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.
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The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.
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The truth is we are all one connected thing, we are all from the same exact molecules.
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Though you feel like your not where you’re suppose to be, you shouldn’t worry because the next turn you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.
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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
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When I go hiking and I get over the hill, That means I am past the hard part and there is a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I am concerned.
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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail and both are equally important.
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You are never too old to play. You are only too old for low-rise jeans.
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