The best Quotes by Tyler Perry

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

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.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

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

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Bam: "If I could, I would've folded myself up in there for you as your gift."
Joe: "Bam. You couldn't fold yourself up in a pickup truck."

Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."

Children are gonna live their own lives whether we want them to or not.

I'll give you a lesson in life. In the morning, the sun will rise, and if it don't, you have died.

Rosa Parks is a whole entire Civil Rights hero. She's a shero.

A future isn't a future without a past.

Tim: "How you doin'?"
Joe: "Uh, fair to middlin'. Nuts don't work, but they still trying. They'll crank out a little now and then to make her happy."
Tim: "Okay... uh, I didn't need to know that."

What you batting your eyes and fixing your hair for? Bam, you barking up the wrong trees.

Never let your girlfriend and your man hang out too often!

I didn't make it rain, but I sure made it drizzle.

Get your hand away! You ain't heard of COVID-1920?

Just like an apple trying to get through the eye of a needle.

I wish I was a mirror, so I can see myself inside of you.

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

What's the loneliest place in all of Louisiana?
Bayou Self

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

Black bandana, sweet Louisiana
Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin', 'Baby, what you gonna- ?'
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal .45
Just another way to survive

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Louisiana - and that's pretty much the same thing.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.