Top 120 Tyler Perry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!”

— Tyler Perry

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2. “He who has the gold makes the rules.”

— Tyler Perry

3. “It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.”

— Tyler Perry

4. “God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.”

— Tyler Perry

5. “The road that I’m on is a path that I didn’t choose. It chose me. I’m just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.”

— Tyler Perry

6. “It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”

— Tyler Perry

7. “A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.”

— Tyler Perry

8. “You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.”

— Tyler Perry

9. “My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.”

— Tyler Perry

10. “The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.”

— Tyler Perry

11. “Once you’re truly happy with yourself alone, that’s when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

— Tyler Perry

12. “Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.”

— Tyler Perry

13. “If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don’t know where I would be.”

— Tyler Perry

14. “When you haven’t forgiven those who’ve hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.”

— Tyler Perry

15. “I thank God for Closed Doors.”

— Tyler Perry

16. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.”

— Tyler Perry

17. “I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.”

— Tyler Perry

18. “Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”

— Tyler Perry

19. “Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”

— Tyler Perry

20. “Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.”

— Tyler Perry

21. “I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.”

— Tyler Perry

22. “It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.”

— Tyler Perry

23. “I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.”

— Tyler Perry

24. “Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.”

— Tyler Perry

25. “I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!”

— Tyler Perry

26. “I’m always on to something else. It’s like, I’m sitting here now jotting down notes for something that’s in my head. There’s always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.”

— Tyler Perry

27. “When it all comes down to it, life isn’t about how much we get – it’s about how much we share.”

— Tyler Perry

28. “I tell people, if you’re thinking about suicide, all that stuff I’ve attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.”

— Tyler Perry

29. “I’m a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.”

— Tyler Perry

30. “If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.”

— Tyler Perry

31. “My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don’t know where I would be right now.”

— Tyler Perry

32. “You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.”

— Tyler Perry

33. “I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.”

— Tyler Perry

34. “The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.”

— Tyler Perry

35. “Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.”

— Tyler Perry

36. “Tyler Perry’s brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I’ve built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney’s Touchstone. We can do anything. People don’t know what to expect from me yet.”

— Tyler Perry

37. “Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed – for the most part, every family’s got them.”

— Tyler Perry

38. “It ain’t what people call you. It’s what you answer to.”

— Tyler Perry

39. “True love can come more than once.”

— Tyler Perry

40. “The important thing for me is, and what I’d like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you’d find some pretty interesting things there.”

— Tyler Perry

41. “What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.”

— Tyler Perry

42. “What excites me? I think it’s moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.”

— Tyler Perry

43. “I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I’ve been looking for it but ain’t seen it since.”

— Tyler Perry

44. “When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, “Wow!” When nothing’s going on, that’s when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.”

— Tyler Perry

45. “It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.”

— Tyler Perry

46. “Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.”

— Tyler Perry

47. “Prayer really can change things.”

— Tyler Perry

48. “I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.”

— Tyler Perry

49. “Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.”

— Tyler Perry

50. “Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.”

— Tyler Perry