Top 50 Gloria Gaynor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I will survive. As long as I know how to love, I know I’ll be alive.”

— Gloria Gaynor

2. “I’ve got all my life to live and I’ve got all my love to give.”

— Gloria Gaynor

3. “At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.”

— Gloria Gaynor

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4. “Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”

— Gloria Gaynor

5. “So you’re back from outer space.”

— Gloria Gaynor

6. “I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one’s character.”

— Gloria Gaynor

7. “I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.”

— Gloria Gaynor

8. “My look is always glitzy for New Year’s Eve, even if I am at home.”

— Gloria Gaynor

9. “Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It’s about who you are, and I didn’t think I was anything or anybody.”

— Gloria Gaynor

10. “I think I sound like Barry White.”

— Gloria Gaynor

11. “There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.”

— Gloria Gaynor

12. “All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.”

— Gloria Gaynor

13. “One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for ‘I Will Survive.’”

— Gloria Gaynor

14. “Well, I think it’s era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.”

— Gloria Gaynor

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15. “Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.”

— Gloria Gaynor

16. “The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.”

— Gloria Gaynor

17. “When I’m on stage, all is right with the world.”

— Gloria Gaynor

18. “God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.”

— Gloria Gaynor

19. “I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.”

— Gloria Gaynor

20. “I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.”

— Gloria Gaynor

21. “I have a European Fanclub that’s based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn’t had the foresight to collect myself.”

— Gloria Gaynor

22. “The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.”

— Gloria Gaynor

23. “I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.”

— Gloria Gaynor

24. “God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.”

— Gloria Gaynor

25. “My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.”

— Gloria Gaynor

26. “Actually I’m more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.”

— Gloria Gaynor

27. “People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn’t take them long to realise I’m just an average person.”

— Gloria Gaynor

28. “People always want to ask me about my drug problem – I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!”

— Gloria Gaynor

29. “Music is my life. The only other thing I’ve done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.”

— Gloria Gaynor

30. “A chic guy is in a suit. I don’t care what kind of tie they wear. I don’t care if they even wear a tie, as long as they can carry a suit.”

— Gloria Gaynor

31. “I had a fear of being alone.”

— Gloria Gaynor

32. “Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no better love affair.”

— Gloria Gaynor

33. “I still love a variety of kinds of music.”

— Gloria Gaynor

34. “That’s why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it’s the perfect camouflage for insecurity.”

— Gloria Gaynor

35. “Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.”

— Gloria Gaynor

36. “Personally I prefer Gospel music.”

— Gloria Gaynor

37. “That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.”

— Gloria Gaynor

38. “I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.”

— Gloria Gaynor

39. “I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.”

— Gloria Gaynor

40. “None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.”

— Gloria Gaynor

41. “First I have a collection of all of the albums I’ve ever done, on vax.”

— Gloria Gaynor

42. “Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.”

— Gloria Gaynor

43. “I started out doing covers.”

— Gloria Gaynor

44. “My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.”

— Gloria Gaynor

45. “I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn’t have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.”

— Gloria Gaynor

46. “Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.”

— Gloria Gaynor

47. “Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.”

— Gloria Gaynor

48. “The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.”

— Gloria Gaynor

49. “I’ve written a lot of songs but I haven’t had the opportunity to record a lot of them.”

— Gloria Gaynor

50. “Only if I could be known for being one of the world’s greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.”

— Gloria Gaynor