Top 40 Hill Harper Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.”

— Hill Harper

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2. “Change happens from the bottom up – all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.”

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3. “Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.”

— Hill Harper

4. “Money is simply a tool to give you choices.”

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5. “If you can’t get excited about living life, then what are you doing?”

— Hill Harper

6. “I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.”

— Hill Harper

7. “I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.”

— Hill Harper

8. “This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.”

— Hill Harper

9. “Honesty, trust, and friendship in a relationship are crucial, and no relationship can survive without them.”

— Hill Harper

10. “I’m not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn’t I?”

— Hill Harper

11. “You cant have justice unless you have truth.”

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12. “You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.”

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13. “I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it’s received and reciprocated and it grows. That’s the beauty of it.”

— Hill Harper

14. “The most impactful place that Ive been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.”

— Hill Harper

15. “All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.”

— Hill Harper

16. “Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.”

— Hill Harper

17. “Gabrielle Union is my best friend.”

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18. “You can’t be free if the cost of being you is too high.”

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19. “Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.”

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20. “Here’s the deal: I believe – and I attempt to live my life this way – we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.”

— Hill Harper

21. “You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do.”

— Hill Harper

22. “I believe that reality TV should be called ‘not reality’ TV; it’s fiction.”

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23. “I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I’m traveling.”

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24. “I’ve read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.”

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25. “It’s not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.”

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26. “The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.”

— Hill Harper

27. “All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.”

— Hill Harper

28. “I’m not telling anyone, ‘Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.’”

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29. “People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.”

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30. “If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don’t just say, ‘I’m not going to file.’ There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it’s a credit card company or tax department.”

— Hill Harper

31. “I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.”

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32. “There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.”

— Hill Harper

33. “Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.”

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34. “I’m not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.”

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35. “I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.”

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36. “At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won’t come from our bank balance.”

— Hill Harper

37. “I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.”

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38. “In acting class, teachers talk about how the ‘givens’ of a situation help define a character.”

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39. “I don’t want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.”

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40. “We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.”

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41. “I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?”

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42. “Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?”

— Hill Harper

43. “Now this might get me into trouble but I’m just going to write it. Many of my most jaded female friends want a man who has already “arrived” and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, I’ve noticed that if many of these women hold up a mirror to themselves, they would realize that they are still “works in progress,” as well.”

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44. “We don’t have to allow stereotypical notions or past experiences to immediately alter our personal future.”

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45. “We make irrational and often destructive choices because we have given money and its pursuit too much value.”

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46. “We are expecting less and demanding less, and those lower expectations are making us unfulfilled and taking us farther from each other.”

— Hill Harper