Leslie Knope's Most Inspirational Quotes: A Celebration of Wit and Wisdom

"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

"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

"I am big enough to admit I am often inspired by myself."

- Leslie Knope

"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

"I have the most valuable commodity in America: the blind, stubborn belief that I am doing what is right."

- Leslie Knope

"There's nothing we can't do if we work hard, never sleep, and shirk all other responsibilities in our lives."

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"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."

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"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

"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

"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."

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"I love you, and I like you."

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"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

"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

"I'm ready."

- Leslie Knope

"Sometimes you have to make the hardest climb to see the most beautiful sunrise."

- Leslie Knope

"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

"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

"I guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies."

- Leslie Knope

"I am a Goddess. A glorious female warrior."

- Leslie Knope

"You go big or you go home."

- Leslie Knope

"If you want to bake a pie, that's great. If you want to have a career, that's great too."

- Leslie Knope

"What's Galentine's Day? Oh it's only the best day of the year."

- Leslie Knope

"I am big enough to admit that I am often inspired by myself."

- Leslie Knope

"Winning is every girl's dream. But it's my destiny."

- Leslie Knope

"I am a Goddess, a glorious female warrior."

- Leslie Knope

"You know my code: Hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries."

- Leslie Knope

"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

"I have the most valuable currency in America: a blind, stubborn belief that I’m 100% right."

- Leslie Knope

"Hey, Leslie. It's Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."

- Leslie Knope

"I took your idea and I made it better."

- Leslie Knope

"You only get one chance to make a second impression."

- Leslie Knope

"Hey, Leslie. It’s Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."

- Leslie Knope

"Hey Leslie. It's Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."

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"What I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring really loudly at me."

- Leslie Knope

"Ann, you're such a good friend. You are a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox."

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"Winning is every girl's dream."

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"I need you to text me every 30 seconds that everything is going to be OK."

- Leslie Knope

"Ann's my doctor. And she's the most beautiful nurse in the world."

- Leslie Knope

"Ann, you poetic, noble land mermaid."

- Leslie Knope

"You know my code: hoes before bros. Uteruses before duderuses. Ovaries before brovaries."

- Leslie Knope

"What's Galentine's Day? Oh, it's only the best day of the year."

- Leslie Knope

"February 13th, Galentine's Day, is about celebrating lady friends."

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"Organizing my agenda. Wait, that doesn't sound fun... jammin' on my planner!"

- Leslie Knope

"Yellow-haired female. Likes waffles and news."

- Leslie Knope

"Hobbies? Organizing my agenda. Wait. That doesn't sound fun. Jammin' on my planner!"

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"No matter what I do, literally nothing bad can happen to me. I'm like a white, male U.S. senator."

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"Everyone should love waffles. If they don't, they're crazy."

- Leslie Knope

"Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?"

- Leslie Knope

"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

"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things."

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"So I just slept seven hours, which is twice as long as I usually sleep... so I'm a little disoriented."

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"Don't you dare feed that waffle to that dog to get it to poop."

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"The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history."

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"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."

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"That's horrifying and so is Orin. You should not be friends with him."

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"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

"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."

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