Top 60 Whitney Houston Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There can be miracles when you believe.”

— Whitney Houston

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2. “I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”

— Whitney Houston

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3. “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.”

— Whitney Houston

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4. “I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.”

— Whitney Houston

5. “I believe the children are our future.”

— Whitney Houston

6. “I’d rather be alone than unhappy.”

— Whitney Houston

7. “If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.”

— Whitney Houston

8. “When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.”

— Whitney Houston

9. “Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.”

— Whitney Houston

10. “My daughter is my greatest inspiration.”

— Whitney Houston

11. “You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.”

— Whitney Houston

12. “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”

— Whitney Houston

13. “If you say my eyes are beautiful, it’s because they are looking at you.”

— Whitney Houston

14. “Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be.”

— Whitney Houston

15. “Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.”

— Whitney Houston

16. “Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!”

— Whitney Houston

17. “I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.”

— Whitney Houston

18. “When you’re feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.”

— Whitney Houston

19. “My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.”

— Whitney Houston

20. “I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.”

— Whitney Houston

21. “God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?”

— Whitney Houston

22. “I’m tired of people taking off their clothes.”

— Whitney Houston

23. “Growing around great musicians, you just can’t help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.”

— Whitney Houston

24. “I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.”

— Whitney Houston

25. “I’ve always been a thin girl. I’m not going to be fat, ever. Let’s get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?”

— Whitney Houston

26. “I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.”

— Whitney Houston

27. “I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I’m not a person who wants to die. I’m a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn’t mistake it for anything else other than that.”

— Whitney Houston

28. “I’m good where I am at this moment.”

— Whitney Houston

29. “My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.”

— Whitney Houston

30. “When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do.”

— Whitney Houston

31. “No one makes me do anything I don’t want to do.”

— Whitney Houston

32. “I’m proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We’re all God’s children.”

— Whitney Houston

33. “I’m an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.”

— Whitney Houston

34. “No, I’m not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you’d get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.”

— Whitney Houston

35. “From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.”

— Whitney Houston

36. “I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I’m living for her, so I’m fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.”

— Whitney Houston

37. “I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.”

— Whitney Houston

38. “I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.”

— Whitney Houston

39. “In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”

— Whitney Houston

40. “Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you’re sitting in your home and you’re just trying to cover what you don’t want people to know. It’s painful. And then you want more just so that you don’t let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we’re not happy.”

— Whitney Houston

41. “I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”

— Whitney Houston

42. “Loneliness comes with life.”

— Whitney Houston

43. “My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.”

— Whitney Houston

44. “I love to sing, but it’s just not fun anymore.”

— Whitney Houston

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45. “Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.”

— Whitney Houston

46. “What’s in your soul is in your soul.”

— Whitney Houston

47. “When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.”

— Whitney Houston

48. “I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”

— Whitney Houston

49. “I’ve never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful.”

— Whitney Houston

50. “I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.”

— Whitney Houston