Inspiring Quotes About Personality From Your Favorite Celebrities

In need of a positivity boost? We’ve compiled a list of quotes from your favorite celebrities to bring some motivation and wisdom to your day. From Dolly Parton to Julie Andrews, here are some of the most inspiring quotes for every personality type.

Michelle Obama quotes (ESTJ)

“Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Let them make you even hungrier to succeed.”

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts...good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful.”

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”

Mindy Kaling quotes (ENTJ)

“Sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.”

“No matter how good you have it, it’s cool to want more.”

“I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don’t beat myself up over it.”

Dolly Parton quotes (ESFP)

“I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be, because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.”

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”

“The seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”

“Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.”

Steve Harvey quotes (ESFJ)

“Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.”

“Do not ignore your gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort.”

“It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.”

Janelle Monáe quotes (ENFJ)

“I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.”

“You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others, without expectation.”

“I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.”

Julie Andrews quotes (ENFP)

“Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.”

“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”

“I’ve come to realize that home is a feeling as much as it is a place; it is as much about loving what I do as being where I am.”

Robert De Niro quotes (ISTJ)

“If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.”

“I've never been one of those actors who have touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.”

“There is a mixture of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. The talent is in the choices.”

Greta Thunberg quotes (INTJ)

“When you have so many people listening to what you’re saying and especially when you write speeches that will be heard by a lot of people, you need to have solid ground, you can’t make assumptions, you need to have facts on everything and sources on everything.”

“Sometimes NOT doing things – like just sitting down outside the parliament – speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.”

“They go off on things like my personality, and how I am, and how I look, and how I behave, and that is just a sign that they don’t have any more arguments.”

Beyoncé Knowles quotes (ISFJ)

“The ocean makes me feel really small, and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.”

“I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.”

“Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.”

Eddie Murphy quotes (ESTP)

“I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

“As you get older, you get different, and I’m a mushier, softer person as I get older.”

“I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.”

“Weird Al” Yankovic quotes (ENTP)

“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.”

“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.”

“If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.”

Billie Eilish quotes (ISTP)

"I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter."

“If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.”

"I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad."

Kevin Costner quotes (ISFP)

“I stand up for what I believe.”

“Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.”

“I think you should be fair about how you treat people.”

“Everyone feels like they could have done things differently in life. But I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.”

Kristen Stewart quotes (INTP)

“People have to try to understand that it is very weird for me to talk to people I don't know about something I care about so much.”

“It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.”

“I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.”

Timothée Chalamet quotes (INFP)

"I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground."

"I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places."

"I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity."

“I don’t know what chapter I’m on. I only know where I am.”

Jane Goodall quotes (INFJ)

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don’t change.”

“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”