Dolly Parton

"If you see someone without a smile, give them yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"A peacock that rests on his tail feathers is just another turkey."

- Dolly Parton

"People say, ‘How you stay looking so young?’ I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup."

- Dolly Parton

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"You’re in the same boat with a lotta your friends. Waitin’ for the day your ship’ll come in, and the tide's gonna turn and it’s all gonna roll your way."

- Dolly Parton

"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!"

- Dolly Parton

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

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""If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.""

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"Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you."

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"When I feel a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller."

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"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

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"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

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"My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order."

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"Truck drivers are the kings and queens of the open road, navigating highways and byways with skill and precision."

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"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try."

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"Here you come again, lookin’ better than a body has a right to."

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"I’m not offended by blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb…and I also know that I’m not blonde."

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"The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm not offended by blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. And I also know that I'm not blonde."

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"Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

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"Tumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen...pour myself a cup of ambition."

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"Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world."

- Dolly Parton

"You’ll never do a whole lot, unless you’re brave enough to try."

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"A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants."

- Dolly Parton

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”"

- Dolly Parton

"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

- Dolly Parton

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

"'Cause I can see the light of a clear blue morningI can see the light of a brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningOh, and everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay."

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"set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try."

- Dolly Parton

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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"Oh, I've been like a captured eagle, you know an eagle's born to fly. Now that I have won my freedom, like an eagle I am eager for the sky."

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""Storms make trees take deeper roots.""

- Dolly Parton

"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway."

- Dolly Parton

"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can?"

- Dolly Parton

"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas."

- Dolly Parton

""Find out who you are and do it on purpose.""

- Dolly Parton

""You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.""

- Dolly Parton

""The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!""

- Dolly Parton

""We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.""

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""I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.""

- Dolly Parton

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on."

- Dolly Parton

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."

- Dolly Parton

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

"I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else."

- Dolly Parton

"I’m not offended by blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb … and I also know that I’m not blonde."

- Dolly Parton

"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you see somebody without a smile, give ’em yours!"

- Dolly Parton

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence."

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"When someone shows you their true colors, believe them."

- Dolly Parton

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

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"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

- Dolly Parton

"My weaknesses have always been food and men—in that order."

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"I was the first woman to burn my bra—it took the fire department four days to put it out."

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"I have pretty good skin considering my age, and I think a lot of it is mineral oil and bacon grease."

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"People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there."

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"I am a self-made woman, and I have the doctor bills to prove it."

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"Smile, it increases your face value."

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"I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world."

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"I've had heartaches, headaches, toothaches, earaches, and I've had a few pains in the ass, but I've survived to tell about it."

- Dolly Parton

"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can?"

- Dolly Parton

"You can wish your life away. But if you're going to dream, you're going to have to get out and, like I always say, you have to put some wings on them dreams, and some feet and fingers and some hands. They gotta get into some stuff. You can't just sit around and think of all the things you want to do. You've got to think of what you want to do, and then you've got to get out and make that happen."

- Dolly Parton

"If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's."

- Dolly Parton

"People say, 'how you stay looking so young?' I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know that I'm not a blonde."

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"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!"

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"I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love."

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"A rhinestone shines just as good as a diamond."

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"The magic is inside you, there ain’t no crystal ball."

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"Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm the little engine that did."

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"I’ve always tried to never step on anybody to get where I am. I’ve had to walk around a few people, jump over a few of ‘em now and then, but I think you’re a true success when you’ve seen your dreams come true and you can take pride in how you did it, and take pride in and respect and appreciate the people that helped you get there."

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"Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent."

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"You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished."

- Dolly Parton

"To thine own self be true."

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"Never ignore your roots, your home, or your hair."

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"A loose tongue can lead to broken teeth."

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"Prayer is not a formal affair, it’s more a come-as-you-are."

- Dolly Parton

"Anyone who says you can’t take it with you has never seen me pack."

- Dolly Parton

"You don’t have to look like everybody else. You don’t have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful."

- Dolly Parton

"People say how you stay looking so young? I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup."

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"I always count my blessings more than I count my money. I don’t work for money, never did."

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"Everybody’s life is a soap opera. Everybody’s life is a country western song, depends on who’s writing it."

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"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets."

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"Dreams are of no value if they're not equipped with wings!"

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"My songs are like my children—I expect them to support me when I'm old."

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"When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it."

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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"We didn’t have any money, but we were rich in things that money don’t buy. You know, like love and kindness and understanding."

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"I’m proud of my hillbilly, white trash background. To me that keeps you humble, that keeps you good. And it doesn’t matter how hard you try to outrun it—if that’s who you are, that’s who you are. It’ll show up once in a while."

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"I was born with a happy heart. I’m always looking for things to be better."

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"People feel like they’ve known me so long because I’ve been around a long time. I’m really like an aunt or a cousin or a person you’ve grown up with—like somebody in the family. So I think they feel comfortable with me. I really think that is Southern hospitality."

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"I ask God every day to lead me, guide me and direct me, to take the wrong people out of my life, put the right people in. As I get older, I’m even stronger in my faith."

- Dolly Parton

"We just gotta do our best day-to-day, be the best person we can, do the best work we can, and just keep on dreamin’."

- Dolly Parton

"We need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, otherwise we just become egomaniacs. If you don’t have something to look forward to and lean on, it’s a hard fall when [bad] things happen."

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"I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

- Dolly Parton

"Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time."

- Dolly Parton

"I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off."

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"You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own."

- Dolly Parton

"It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world."

- Dolly Parton

"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

- Dolly Parton

"I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give 'em yours!"

- Dolly Parton

"The magic is inside you. There ain't no crystal ball."

- Dolly Parton

"If you see someone without a smile give them yours."

- Dolly Parton

"I’m a working girl. I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva."

- Dolly Parton

"Now the night I graduated from Sevier County High School, back in 1964, we were all asked to stand up and talk about what we were going to do with the rest of our lives. And everybody had a different story. And when it came my time I stood right up there. I said I'm going to Nashville and I'm going to be a star. Well the whole place laughed out loud. And I was so embarrassed, cause I thought, ‘How odd. Why is everybody laughing? ‘Cause that is what I'm going to do.' But as bad as I felt at that moment and as embarrassed as I was, it did not shake me from my dreams. So I guess I showed them, huh?”"

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"I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."

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"I'm just a simple country girl."

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"Now people are always asking me, What do you want people to say about you 100 years from now?' I always say I want them to say ‘Dang, don't she still look good for her age.’"

- Dolly Parton

"I never felt I belonged. Never belonged in my whole life, even as a little kid. I was just different and so I never really found my place till I moved to Nashville and got in the music business. That was my real place, so I fit in."

- Dolly Parton

"I never let a rhinestone go unturned!"

- Dolly Parton

"You gotta bloom where you're planted."

- Dolly Parton

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one"

- Dolly Parton

"When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I’ve done it all."

- Dolly Parton

"You can’t just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give ’em wings, arms, legs…whatever it takes to make your dreams come true."

- Dolly Parton

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"You are my joy and my laughter/You are the moon and you gave the stars light/You are my ever after/Forever love, the light of my life."

- Dolly Parton

"Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means."

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"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."

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"If you’re comfortable with yourself and know yourself, you’re going to shine and radiate and other people are going to be drawn to you."

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"Just stay on track and never look back."

- Dolly Parton

"You gotta put up with the rain!"

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"I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different."

- Dolly Parton

"I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different."

- Dolly Parton

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

- Dolly Parton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Storms make trees take deeper roots"

- Dolly Parton

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time, but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

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"paving another one."

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"As long as you live. there's something new everyday."

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"The way I see it, if you want the Rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"My weaknesses have always been food and men 6in that order."

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"Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing."

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"Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy."

- Dolly Parton

"“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”"

- Dolly Parton

"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

""The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.""

- Dolly Parton