Dionne Warwick Quotes

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

You can do anything you want to do.

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

I thank every bully I ever had because that's the only reason I'm here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me - again, if I had any success whatsoever, it's because these people made fun of me.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, 'Wow, these are things I didn't realize I was capable of.'

I hope that my story can motivate someone.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they're in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.