Top 35 Marie Osmond Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.”

— Marie Osmond

2. “The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.”

— Marie Osmond

3. “You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.”

— Marie Osmond

4. “You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.”

— Marie Osmond

5. “If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

— Marie Osmond

6. “Tragedy plus time equals humor.”

— Marie Osmond

7. “You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.”

— Marie Osmond

8. “My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.”

— Marie Osmond

9. “I don’t claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.”

— Marie Osmond

10. “I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, ‘Marie, you need some chocolate.’”

— Marie Osmond

11. “I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.”

— Marie Osmond

12. “When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes – I call them chocolate eyes – I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn’t.”

— Marie Osmond

13. “Right now I don’t call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.”

— Marie Osmond

14. “I don’t play politics; I don’t do that. I think there’s too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it’s our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.”

— Marie Osmond

15. “What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it’s even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.”

— Marie Osmond

16. “I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it; that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”

— Marie Osmond

17. “I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.”

— Marie Osmond

18. “Depression doesn’t wait till Monday.”

— Marie Osmond

19. “When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.”

— Marie Osmond

20. “Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, ‘Hey, let’s just all get together and help each other be brilliant.’”

— Marie Osmond

21. “This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I’m a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.”

— Marie Osmond

22. “I feel blessed – I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don’t want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I’ve gained in that time.”

— Marie Osmond

23. “I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn’t end up in an unhealthy body like she did.”

— Marie Osmond

24. “When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, ‘We relate to you. I’ve been divorced. I’m raising kids on my own.’ Or, ‘You’ve had money. You’ve lost money.’”

— Marie Osmond

25. “Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.”

— Marie Osmond

26. “I lost boundaries as a child that I didn’t even realize it and it wasn’t talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?”

— Marie Osmond

27. “I don’t know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it’s not done till it’s done, even if it’s three or four in the morning. I don’t want them to grow up with entitlement.”

— Marie Osmond

28. “My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn’t do herself. She always taught by example.”

— Marie Osmond

29. “I’ll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.”

— Marie Osmond

30. “The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don’t test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.”

— Marie Osmond

31. “There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.”

— Marie Osmond

32. “What a cute man! Hey, I may be pregnant, but I can still see!”

— Marie Osmond

33. “I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me ‘Person of the Week,’ and like I told her, ‘Diane, I love my daughter.’ I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.”

— Marie Osmond

34. “This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that’s where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.”

— Marie Osmond

35. “We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.”

— Marie Osmond

36. “I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don’t know how I would have been able to get through what I’ve been through.”

— Marie Osmond

37. “That’s what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.”

— Marie Osmond

38. “So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it’s not the mother’s fault. This is the thing: they shouldn’t feel ashamed. They didn’t cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.”

— Marie Osmond