Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.