51 Inspirational Viola Davis Quotes About Life (BELIEVE)

Top 15 Most Famous Viola Davis Quotes (BEST)

I will not be a woman who takes things for granted anymore. I will not be a woman who brushes off compliments. I will not be a woman who is silent about my achievements.

I grew up in a world where I just wanted to be perfect. And I realized that perfect was the enemy of the great.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within strength, courage, dignity. — The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: **strength**, **courage**, **dignity**.

The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. — The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is **opportunity**.

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

You have to have the audacity to believe in your own talent. — You have to have the audacity to **believe** in your own **talent**.

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, truly being who you are. — I **believe** that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, truly being who you are.

You have to envision your own success. It's important to have a vision for yourself, for what you want your life to be. — You have to envision your own **success**. It’s important to have a **vision** for yourself, for what you want your **life** to be.

My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love. — My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your **life**. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had **love**.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are. — Your **ability** to adapt to **failure**, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear. — There’s no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy, and I think that’s a message a lot of women need to hear.

I became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.

The only thing that's everlasting is love. The only thing that's transformative is love. — The only thing that’s everlasting is **love**. The only thing that’s transformative is love.

17 Inspirational Viola Davis Quotes About Life

“I don’t think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who, from an early age, knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
Viola Davis

I now understand that life, and living it, is more about being present. I’m now aware that the not-so-happy memories lie in wait; but the hope and the joy also lie in wait. — I now understand that life, and living it, is more about being present. I’m now aware that the not-so-happy **memories** lie in wait; but the **hope** and the joy also lie in wait.

I knew my life would be a fight, and I realized this I had it in me. — I knew my life would be a fight, and I realized this: I had it in me.

Dreams don't have an expiration date. If you don't give up, you can achieve them at any time. — **Dreams** don’t have an expiration date. If you don’t give up, you can achieve them at any time.

All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.

My mom always said, 'Don't ever let anyone rob you of your joy.' And I've never forgotten that. — My mom always said, ‘Don’t ever let anyone rob you of your joy.’ And I’ve never forgotten that.

Your only job as an artist is to put the truth out there into the world. — Your only job as an artist is to put the **truth** out there into the world.

You can only shine if you’re included in the narrative, and narratives start when you put the pen to paper and you use your imagination. You just tell a story. That’s all you do. — You can only shine if you’re included in the narrative, and narratives start when you put the pen to paper and you use your **imagination**. You just tell a story. That’s all you do.

May you live long enough to know why you were born.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself. — When you **pray**, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

They say to serve is to love. I think to serve is to heal, too. — They say to serve is to love. I think to serve is to **heal**, too.

What do you want What do you want your life to be What do you want your testimony to be Go for it! — What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

The happily ever after comes after you’ve done the work. — The **happily** ever after comes after you’ve done the work.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent. — I want my work to reflect my level of **gifts** and **talent**.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive. — When your **passion** and drive are bigger than your **fears**, you just dive.

When you’re really passionate, you’re going to grab hold of every rope you see and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out.

Living out loud is living a life that’s bigger than yourself. Living out loud is long after you’re gone –you leave something on this Earth that’s bigger than yourself.

10 Wise Viola Davis Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“It’s futile to ask why. Instead ask yourself, ‘What did I learn from this? What have I learned from all of it?’ There is absolutely no way whatsoever to get through this life without scars.”
Viola Davis

You can’t be hesitant about who you are.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny. — You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own **dreams** and **destiny**.

I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me. — I don’t have any **time** to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t **love** me has to say about me.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past. — **Forgiveness** is giving up all **hope** of a different past.

Remember the love... Don’t play the pain and betrayal, play the woman fighting hard to restore the love. — Remember the **love**… Don’t play the pain and **betrayal**, play the woman fighting hard to restore the love.

You must know that you are worth everything. You must know that you are worth more than many sparrows.

But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women are to take the worst situations and create from that point.

All you really need to do is shift people just a bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.

9 Thought-provoking Viola Davis Quotes that Will Make You Think

“Memories are immortal. They’re deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.”
Viola Davis

I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated. — I know that **love** is real when it’s not convenient, when it’s not selfish, when it’s **challenged**, sometimes even if it’s not reciprocated.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are. — There’s got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I don't think you can become an actor if you have any sense of dignity. — I don’t think you can become an actor if you have any sense of **dignity**.

I spent so many years at Juilliard just wanting to beat somebody up. I think it was the height of my anger; that chip on my shoulder.

“When you’re poor, you live in an alternate reality. It’s not that we have problems different from everyone else, but we don’t have the resources to mask them. We’ve been stripped clean of social protocol.”
Viola Davis