Jennifer Hudson Quotes

If you say 'I can't,' you'd better add on 'yet.' Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.

I always try to show there's a way for the kids that feel like they're lowlives. In anything you want, you can be the greatest at it, even without school, if you want. Know your route.

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I inspire myself.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

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

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

Your success and happiness start with you.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.