Inspirational Michael Jackson Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Motivate and Uplift

"You can’t do your best when you are doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?"

- Michael Jackson

"I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."

- Michael Jackson

"In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe."

- Michael Jackson

"Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don’t be looking at all the other things. Start with you."

- Michael Jackson

"I don’t care if the whole world is against you, teasing you or saying you’re not gonna make it. Believe in yourself."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror, I'm asking him to change his ways; And no message could have been any clearer, If you wanna make the world a better place, Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!"

- Michael Jackson

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

- Michael Jackson

"No matter what, the most powerful thing in the world is the human mind, and prayer, and belief in yourself, and confidence, and perseverance. No matter how many times you do it, you do it again until it’s right. And always believe in yourself, and no matter who’s around you that’s being negative, or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off; because whatever you believe, you become."

- Michael Jackson

"No matter what, the most powerful thing in the world is the human mind and prayer. Believe in yourself, have confidence and perseverance. No matter how many times you do it, you do it again, until it's right. Whatever you believe you become. Block out negative energy. I don't care if the whole world is against you, tease you, or say you're not going to make it, believe in yourself, no matter what."

- Michael Jackson

"If you don't believe in yourself, who will?"

- Michael Jackson

"Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror"

- Michael Jackson

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."

- Michael Jackson

"Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart."

- Michael Jackson

"I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want."

- Michael Jackson

"Dream it.  See it.  Believe it.  Make it happen."

- Michael Jackson

"Never give up on your dreams. Don’t let anyone stand in the way. Just go straight ahead because nothing is impossible."

- Michael Jackson

"I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams."

- Michael Jackson

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved."

- Michael Jackson

"I’m interested in making a path instead of following a trail and that’s what I want to do in life, in everything I do."

- Michael Jackson

"Love is the juice and energy that motivate my music, my dancing, everything. As long as love is in my heart, it’s everywhere."

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"Even if you’re sweeping floors or painting ceilings, do it better than anyone in the world. No matter what it is that you do, be the best at it. And have respect for others, and be proud of yourself."

- Michael Jackson

"I am the captain of my ship. I take suggestions and listen to what everyone has to say, but the final decision is mine."

- Michael Jackson

"Every day create your history. Every page you turn, you’re writing your legacy. Every hero dreams of chivalry. Every child should sing together in harmony."

- Michael Jackson

"Our life begins to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Michael Jackson

"They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting."

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"It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie."

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"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."

- Michael Jackson

"If you don’t aim for something you’ll never know whether you could have hit the mark."

- Michael Jackson

"The best dreams are when your eyes are wide open…go for you dreams."

- Michael Jackson

"Your mind is powerful enough to help you obtain whatever you want."

- Michael Jackson

"The more I believe, the more the dream will be mine."

- Michael Jackson

"It’s knowing what you want to do and having a will of iron. If the whole world says ‘No!’, you say YES!!"

- Michael Jackson

"Everything I’ve achieved started with a dream."

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"I have always been kind of determined. I have always had a vision of things I have wanted to do and goals I have wanted to reach and nothing could stop me getting there. I am focused and I know what I want and what I want to achieve and I won’t get side-tracked. And even though I get down sometimes, I keep running the race of endurance to achieve those goals. It keeps me on track. I am dedicated."

- Michael Jackson

"No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best."

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"Let’s love one another. Let’s forget hatred and turn to those that are suffering, not just today, but every day. Join me in healing the world and making it a better place."

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"Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough."

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"I'm a perfectionist; I'll work until I drop."

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"It's easy to mistake being innocent for being simpleminded or naive. We all want to seem sophisticated; we all want to seem street-smart. To be innocent is to be "out of it." Yet there is a deep truth in innocence. A baby looks in his mother's eyes, and all he sees is love. As innocence fades away, more complicated things take its place. We think we need to outwit others and scheme to get what we want. We begin to spend a lot of energy protecting ourselves. Then life turns into a struggle. People have no choice but to be street-smart. How else can they survive? When you get right down to it, survival means seeing things the way they really are and responding. It means being open. And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades."

- Michael Jackson

"I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want."

- Michael Jackson

"I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who’ve worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them—to me that’s magic."

- Michael Jackson

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

- Michael Jackson

"We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment."

- Michael Jackson

"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true"

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"Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed."

- Michael Jackson

"To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world."

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"Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist."

- Michael Jackson

"I just do what I do and I love doing it. I pray that I’m doing my job, what I’m here to do on Earth."

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"When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love."

- Michael Jackson

"I feel like I’ve done what I’m supposed to do on Earth.. I’m compelled to do these things."

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"My mission is healing – plain and simple."

- Michael Jackson

"People don’t look at themselves honestly. They don’t look at themselves and point the finger; it’s always the other guy’s fault. You should change yourself. Look at yourself."

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"And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades."

- Michael Jackson

"It is cruelty, it’s ugly and I hate it. You are my brother (points out to the children). They are my brothers. If you are black, white, Arab….we are all the same. I love all races equally…. I love all people of the world."

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"I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am."

- Michael Jackson

"In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have."

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"I remember going swimming as a child and making a wish before I jumped into the pool. [...] I'd stretch my arms out, as if I were sending my thoughts right into space. I'd make my wish, then I'd dive into the water. I'd say to myself, "This is my dream. This is my wish," every time before I'd dive into the water."

- Michael Jackson

"My real goal is to fulfil God’s purpose."

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"You never know how long you have with someone, so don’t forget to say I love you while you can."

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"Stay humble with the humbleness that a child like a new-born baby has. Even though you become powerful […] be as humble as a child, as a baby, and be as kind and as giving and loving. Don’t become puffed up with pride."

- Michael Jackson

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

- Michael Jackson

"For me, Love is something very pure."

- Michael Jackson

"The courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love."

- Michael Jackson

"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."

- Michael Jackson

"Love is the human family’s most precious legacy, its richest bequest, its golden inheritance."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am."

- Michael Jackson

"Feel humanity, don’t do it because I’m asking you to, do it because it’s the right thing to do."

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"Others can’t overcome fear for you; you have to do it on your own.  It’s hard because fear and doubt hold on tight."

- Michael Jackson

"Make love your weapon to overcome any evil."

- Michael Jackson

"Keep the faith. Don’t let nobody take you down. Just keep your eyes on the prize and get your feet back on the ground."

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"I don’t care what you wanna be in life just make sure you’re happy with it and be the greatest at it."

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"There are people out there who don't actively hold you back as much as they work quietly on your insecurities so that you hold yourself back."

- Michael Jackson

"Whenever I accept my own doubt and insecurity, I’m more open to other people.  The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear."

- Michael Jackson

"I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to. Jesus said continue to love. Always love."

- Michael Jackson

"It’s very important to be loved and to tell people that you love them and to look in their eyes and say it."

- Michael Jackson

"I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me."

- Michael Jackson

"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child."

- Michael Jackson

"I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."

- Michael Jackson

"What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waitingto be recognized, within our own hearts."

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"People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song."

- Michael Jackson

"I don’t hire colour. I hire competence."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."

- Michael Jackson

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily."

- Michael Jackson

"Racism is not my motto. I happen to be colour-blind."

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"Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."

- Michael Jackson

"Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep."

- Michael Jackson

"But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to."

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"I want to heal the world, help our children and they hate me for it. They want to destroy everyone righteous."

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"Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it."

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"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?"

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"I don’t like our music to be labelled. Labels are like racism."

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"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone."

- Michael Jackson

"In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way."

- Michael Jackson

"When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one."

- Michael Jackson

"I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading."

- Michael Jackson

"I don’t like to copy. I like to be original."

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"But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me."

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"Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?"

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"You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they are made of. In fact, when peoples minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them."

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"Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater."

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"Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends."

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"Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever."

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"I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work."

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"Music is color blind."

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"I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself."

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"I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?"

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"Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share."

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"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."

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"I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?"

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"Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel."

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"Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance."

- Michael Jackson

"All of us are products of our childhood."

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"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

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"I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go."

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"Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him."

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"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

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"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."

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"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."

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"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court."

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"It 's strange that God doesn't mind expressing Himself/Herself in all the religions of the world, while people still cling to the notion that their way is the only right way. Whatever you try to say about God, someone will take offense, even if you say everyone's love of God is right for them. For me the form God takes is not the most important thing. What's most important is the essence. My songs and dances are outlines for Him to come in and fill. I hold out the form. She puts in the sweetness."

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"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

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"I was a veteran, before I was a teenager."

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"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."

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"They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another."

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"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed and I embarass easily."

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"Look beyond yourself.."

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"I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating."

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"This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on."

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"Me and Janet really are two different people."

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"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."

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"I just wish I could understand my father."

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"Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her."

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"I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it."

- Michael Jackson