Demi Lovato

The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

You try to smile it away, some things you can’t disguise.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

Don’t ever call a girl fat. Even if you’re joking.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

It is surprinsingly how easy it is to forget that the way to get things done is to do them.

There is no substitute for hard work.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

You are what you think about all day long.

Its kind of fun to do the impossible.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

Hope will never be silent.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.