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Whoopi Goldberg’s Most Inspirational Quotes Will Make You Want to Reach for the Stars

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Aug 13, 2019 3:36 pm·

By Joyann Jeffrey

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Feeling down? It’s OK, because we have exactly what you need for you to pick yourself back up again. What’s that, you ask? Just 10 of Whoopi Goldberg‘s most inspirational quotes, that’s what.

The 63-year-old TV personality has been known to share some great life advice to those in need from time to time. After all, she has endured everything from money troubles to drug addiction and, of course, broken hearts. What we’re saying is Whoopi knows exactly to say to uplift anyone and everyone out there.

Her daughter, Alex Martin, 46, says the best advice she ever got from her mom was to ignore the critics. “Don’t read Twitter, don’t read the comments, don’t read any of that stuff because you know, some people have a lot of time and they like to hate on stuff they don’t understand,” Whoopi’s only kid once said.

Scroll below to read 10 of Whoopi’s most inspirational quotes!

1 of 10

“I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.”

2 of 10

“We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

3 of 10

“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”

4 of 10

“It you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you’ve got to wake up and pay attention,” the actress said in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.

5 of 10

“Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.”

6 of 10

“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”

7 of 10

“You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.”

8 of 10

“Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.”

9 of 10

“I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you’re kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.”

10 of 10

“I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone’s dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.”