Tyler Perry Quotes

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

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

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

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

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

I thank God for Closed Doors

we didn't have much, but we had love.

If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

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

Don't try to be seen, God may be hiding you on purpose.

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

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

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.

True love can come more than once.

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Don't let people change who you are just be who you are with someone else.

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

You really will reap what you sew.

If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don't know where I would be.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

You give away your power when you don't forgive.

Nothing is impossible for God.

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.

A baby can heal broken hearts.

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Never argue with what is.

God will really make your enemy your footstool

A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.

Life is short but heartache is shorter

Don't share your dreams with everyone and don't be angry with non-dreamers.

Always aim for right and avoid doing wrong at all costs.

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

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.

Teach but never try to change people because sometimes they change back.

Share wisdom with those who will receive it.

Never wish to be somebody else.

Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.

Bitterness is as toxic as stage 4 cancer.

Your beginning never dictates your destnation.

Prayer really can change things.

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.

Yes, God is real.

Your gift can make room for you.

Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.

The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.

If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.

You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

Root People may be hard to find because they’re not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.

Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

It takes a while to build a dream

The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.

You learn how they live their lives, and you speak their language well enough to blend in with them. But how many white people you know who go out of their way to see Tyler Perry movies so they can learn how to act around Black people?

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

The joy of The Lord really is strength.

Never mind that it's not owned by a black person anymore. You can still learn a lot from BET. Primarily, you will learn that black people love reruns, and if you're lucky, you'll catch the Tyler Perry movie! I know the Internet Movie Database says Perry has written over ten films, and there may be several titles and even different casts, but if you've seen one Tyler Perry movie, you've experienced the entire cannon. The man has only made one film, and you can catch it on BET, repeatedly.

I ain't going to talk to you until I am blue in the face trying to make you change. I'm going to tell you what's on my mind and hope you get it and I'm going to move on. That's what we have to do sometimes--move on. Try to help others, extend your hand, and then help the next. If they don't want to accept it, keep moving on. Don't let them discourage you. Never stop doing what you're doing because of somebody else's unwillingness to learn.

A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain't being seen you ain't doing nothing!

FAKE IT TIL YOU BECOME IT!

Tyler. “We should cover that tune. Whose original is this?” “What the fuck are you talking about, Steven?” I said. “That’s us.” “Is it?” he asked. “Hell yes, it is.” “Where was I?” “In the booth, singing.

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

...there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

SOME OF THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE ARE THE BROKEST PEOPLE ON EARTH!

Developing a good work ethics is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethics will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Be modest and patient; allow your dream its own time to grow. Dreams need to be tended like crops before you can enjoy the harvest. And this is important: Don’t get hung up on the outcome. Hand that over to God. Remember, He’s the one at the wheel. Of course, I was afraid of failing, but I held on

As he so often does, Tyler Perry wants to have it every which way but right, and a high cost is being exacted so this man can get exactly what he wants.

When it comes to Black women, sometimes Americans don’t recognize that sass is simply a more palatable form of rage. Americans adore sassy Black women. You know those caricatures of finger-waving, eye-rolling Black women at whom everyone loves to laugh—women like Tyler Perry’s Madea, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, or Nell from that old eighties sitcom Gimme a Break! These kinds of Black women put white folks at ease.

This book is to help you understand that life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

Half the time, the very thing you think that’s going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain’t full of them. It’s not good to have more than two or three.

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

There ain’t no man going to do something for you that you can’t do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, “I’m good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way.” You can’t depend on that to come from nobody else.

Hell, sit back and work on yourself. How are you going to offer something to somebody else if you ain’t been to visit you yet?

Everything that happens to you in this life, if you conquer it, if you beat it, you’ve won. Embrace every day you get.