"Go find your team. Get to work. Whatever that work is that you find worth doing. Do it, and find some people to love who'll do it with you."
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"Now go find your team. Get to work. Whatever that work is that you find worth doing. Do it, and find some people to love who'll do it with you."
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"I am big enough to admit I am often inspired by myself."
- Leslie Knope
Inspiration
"We have to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles and work. Or waffles, friends, work. But work has to come third."
- Leslie Knope
Balance
"I have the most valuable commodity in America: the blind, stubborn belief that I am doing what is right."
- Leslie Knope
Belief in Self
"There's nothing we can't do if we work hard, never sleep, and shirk all other responsibilities in our lives."
- Leslie Knope
Hard Work
"When you love something, you don't threaten it. You don't punish it. You fight for it. You take care of it. You put it first."
- Leslie Knope
Love
"There are very few things I have asked for in this world. To build a new park from scratch, to eventually become president and to one day solve a murder on a train."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"It is my dream to build a park… that I one day visit with my White House staff on my birthday. And they say President Knope, this park is awesome."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"These people are members of the community that care about where they live. So what I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring loudly at me."
- Leslie Knope
Empathy
"I love you, and I like you."
- Leslie Knope
Love
"It’s gotten a lot harder to work in government. You think Winston Churchill ever had to pull his pants down and show his butt? No. But would he have? Yes. Now could he have? Well maybe not towards the end of his life. But, he would have, because he loved his job."
- Leslie Knope
Determination
"We need to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn’t matter, but work is third."
- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
Balance
"I'm ready."
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"Sometimes you have to make the hardest climb to see the most beautiful sunrise."
- Leslie Knope
Perseverance
"The only thing I'm guilty of is loving Pawnee. And punching Lindsay in the face and shoving a coffee filter down her pants."
- Leslie Knope
Belief in Self
"We have to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles and work. Or waffles, friends, work. But work has to to come third."
- Leslie Knope
Balance
"I guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies."
- Leslie Knope
Empowerment
"I am a Goddess. A glorious female warrior."
- Leslie Knope
Belief in Self
"You go big or you go home."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"If you want to bake a pie, that's great. If you want to have a career, that's great too."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"What's Galentine's Day? Oh it's only the best day of the year."
- Leslie Knope
Joy
"I am big enough to admit that I am often inspired by myself."
- Leslie Knope
Self-confidence
"Winning is every girl's dream. But it's my destiny."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"I am a Goddess, a glorious female warrior."
- Leslie Knope
Self-confidence
"You know my code: Hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries."
- Leslie Knope
Belief in Self
"Yesterday I was tough and direct; today I have to be charming. Basically, yesterday I was Hillary Clinton and today I am Bill."
- Leslie Knope
Adaptation
"I have the most valuable currency in America: a blind, stubborn belief that I’m 100% right."
- Leslie Knope
Belief in Self
"Hey, Leslie. It's Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"I took your idea and I made it better."
- Leslie Knope
Creativity
"You only get one chance to make a second impression."
- Leslie Knope
Personal Growth
"Hey, Leslie. It’s Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."
- Leslie Knope
Self-care
"Hey Leslie. It's Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."
- Leslie Knope
Self-improvement
"What I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring really loudly at me."
- Leslie Knope
Awareness
"Ann, you're such a good friend. You are a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox."
- Leslie Knope
Compassion
"Winning is every girl's dream."
- Leslie Knope
Ambition
"I need you to text me every 30 seconds that everything is going to be OK."
- Leslie Knope
Self-awareness
"Ann's my doctor. And she's the most beautiful nurse in the world."
- Leslie Knope
Love
"Ann, you poetic, noble land mermaid."
- Leslie Knope
Love
"You know my code: hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries."
- Leslie Knope
Love
"What's Galentine's Day? Oh, it's only the best day of the year."
- Leslie Knope
Joy
"February 13th, Galentine's Day, is about celebrating lady friends."
- Leslie Knope
Connection to Earth
"Organizing my agenda. Wait, that doesn't sound fun... jammin' on my planner!"
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"Yellow-haired female. Likes waffles and news."
- Leslie Knope
Self-awareness
"Hobbies? Organizing my agenda. Wait. That doesn't sound fun. Jammin' on my planner!"
- Leslie Knope
Motivation
"No matter what I do, literally nothing bad can happen to me. I'm like a white, male U.S. senator."
- Leslie Knope
Optimism
"Everyone should love waffles. If they don't, they're crazy."
- Leslie Knope
Joy
"Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?"
- Leslie Knope
Joy
"I don't know. But I know how I feel and I want to be with you. But I'm done steamrolling people."
- Leslie Knope
Relationships
"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things."
- Leslie Knope
Boldness
"So I just slept seven hours, which is twice as long as I usually sleep... so I'm a little disoriented."
- Leslie Knope
Self-awareness
"Don't you dare feed that waffle to that dog to get it to poop."
- Leslie Knope
Boldness
"The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history."
- Leslie Knope
Boldness
"I'm going to be direct and honest with you. I would like a glass of red wine and I'll take the cheapest one you have because I can't tell the difference."
- Leslie Knope
Honesty
"That's horrifying and so is Orin. You should not be friends with him."
- Leslie Knope
Boldness
"I would like a glass of red wine, and I'll take the cheapest one you have because I can't tell the difference."
- Leslie Knope
Honesty
"It's not that I don't trust Ben. It's that I don't have faith in Ben. And also I'm starting to forget who Ben is."
- Leslie Knope
Awareness