198 Quotes by Mary J. Blige

My responsibility to God is to live. That’s the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

I’m searching for a real love.

I don’t listen to people’s opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

I don’t want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That’s drama, because then you become something that you’re not.

If you’re looking for inner peace from the outside world, you’re not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

It’s that first step-getting out the door-that’s the toughest. If you can do that, you’ve already won.

For the first time in my life, I’m proud of myself.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn’t feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

I care about me now. When I didn’t care about me, I was, like, ‘Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?’ But when you don’t care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.