Dolly Parton Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life (2024)

“I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself," Parton told Billboard in 2014. "I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love.”

In an interview with BBC, the country music star said, “Everybody has their own journey, they have their own way of doing things. And who am I to judge?”

“People say how you stay looking so young? I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup," the 74-year-old said in an interview with BBC.

“I always count my blessings more than I count my money. I don’t work for money, never did," she said in a CBS Sunday Morning interview.

“I still believe that women should get paid equal and should be treated with respect. I’m all about that," Parton said in an ABC interview with Robin Roberts. "I don’t get out and have to preach it or march in the streets, I write about it.”

“Everybody’s life is a soap opera. Everybody’s life is a country western song, depends on who’s writing it," the nine-time Grammy Award winner said in an interview with BBC.

“If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's,” the chart-topping singer-songwriter said in her 2015 film Coat of Many Colors.

In July 2019, Parton tweeted: “If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours.”

“So I say a silent prayer for creatures great and small. Peace on Earth, good will to men is the greatest gift of all," the Christmas at Dollywood star sings in her song "The Greatest Gift Of All."

In her book Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, Parton joked, “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.”

“I’m flashy, and I’m flamboyant. Had I not been a girl, I definitely would have been a drag queen," the Tennessee-born star told Elle.

“I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, as a writer, as a professional, as a human being," she said in a 2019 interview with Elle. "A rhinestone shines just as good as a diamond.”

“Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of ambition," Parton sang in her popular hit, "9 to 5."

“People always say, ‘But you always look so happy.’ Well that’s Botox!" she wrote in her book Dream More. "Nobody’s happy all the time. But I work hard at it.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose,” the long-time Hollywood icon wrote in a tweet on April 8, 2015.

“I'm just a working girl. I never think of myself as a star because, as somebody once said, ‘A star is nothing but a big ball of gas’–and I don't want to be that," Parton said in a 2014 interview with Billboard.

Dolly tweeted on April 4, 2013: “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”