Top 90 Jennifer Hudson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I accept any challenge.”

— Jennifer Hudson

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2. “Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.”

— Jennifer Hudson

3. “If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.”

— Jennifer Hudson

4. “Don’t block your blessings. Don’t let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.”

— Jennifer Hudson

5. “God always works through people.”

— Jennifer Hudson

6. “Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.”

— Jennifer Hudson

7. “I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.”

— Jennifer Hudson

8. “The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.”

— Jennifer Hudson

9. “Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.”

— Jennifer Hudson

10. “Dreams do come true. If anyone’s proof of that, it’s me.”

— Jennifer Hudson

11. “I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.”

— Jennifer Hudson

12. “God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.”

— Jennifer Hudson

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13. “Family makes a house a home.”

— Jennifer Hudson

14. “That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”

— Jennifer Hudson

15. “The talent should speak for itself.”

— Jennifer Hudson

16. “Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free – like Rocky!”

— Jennifer Hudson

17. “I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy.”

— Jennifer Hudson

18. “I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.”

— Jennifer Hudson

19. “I don’t believe in doing things just to do them.”

— Jennifer Hudson

20. “It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.”

— Jennifer Hudson

21. “Traditional values are big in my life.”

— Jennifer Hudson

22. “When I’m acting I don’t sing, and when I’m recording I’m not acting.”

— Jennifer Hudson

23. “Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.”

— Jennifer Hudson

24. “Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.”

— Jennifer Hudson

25. “I don’t do clubs. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke.”

— Jennifer Hudson

26. “You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.”

— Jennifer Hudson

27. “I try to do everything to say, ‘OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she’s happy and she’s smiling down at me from heaven?’ And that’s what I try to go by and walk by.”

— Jennifer Hudson

28. “I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.”

— Jennifer Hudson

29. “No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.”

— Jennifer Hudson

30. “I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn’t God’s fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He’s given me.”

— Jennifer Hudson

31. “I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.”

— Jennifer Hudson

32. “I feel like I’ve lived about three or four different lives.”

— Jennifer Hudson

33. “It’s not a diet, it’s a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!”

— Jennifer Hudson

34. “Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.”

— Jennifer Hudson

35. “My mother was a very wise and strong person.”

— Jennifer Hudson

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36. “You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.”

— Jennifer Hudson

37. “I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.”

— Jennifer Hudson

38. “Love is as hard to hide as hate.”

— Jennifer Hudson

39. “When you’re shopping you forget about eating!”

— Jennifer Hudson

40. “I’m really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, ‘You’re not supposed to be like that ’ I’m not exactly sure what ‘that’ is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.”

— Jennifer Hudson

41. “We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”

— Jennifer Hudson

42. “I think to each its own, if nobody is hurting anybody-who cares? Everyone should be able to do what they want and be happy. Who you love is who you love. That’s the way I see it.”

— Jennifer Hudson

43. “Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.”

— Jennifer Hudson

44. “If you’re asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.”

— Jennifer Hudson

45. “Everything I see, I now see through a mother’s eyes.”

— Jennifer Hudson

46. “My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it’s the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can’t control myself. So why put it in my domain?”

— Jennifer Hudson

47. “People get comfortable with the way you are – they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.”

— Jennifer Hudson

48. “Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.”

— Jennifer Hudson

49. “Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.”

— Jennifer Hudson

50. “I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it’s a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.”

— Jennifer Hudson