110+ Dolly Parton Quotes On Beauty, Success And Friendship

Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her work in country music and her compositions have been covered by many other artists. Parton has received numerous awards throughout her career, including seven Grammy Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, and seven Academy of Country Music Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dolly Parton on love, life, beauty.

Top 10 Dolly Parton Quotes

1. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
2. Storms make trees take deeper roots.
3. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
4. It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
5. A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.
6. I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.
7. I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
8. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
9. I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
10. I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Dolly Parton Image Quotes

Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. — Dolly Parton

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Short Quotes

• You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
• A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.
• When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.
• My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
• There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.
• Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
• I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.
• I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
• I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!
• A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

Dolly Parton Quotes About Love

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! — Dolly Parton

I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach. — Dolly Parton

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. — Dolly Parton

I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside. — Dolly Parton

To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone. — Dolly Parton

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it. — Dolly Parton

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs. — Dolly Parton

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha! — Dolly Parton

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening. — Dolly Parton

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Life

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. — Dolly Parton

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause! — Dolly Parton

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love. — Dolly Parton

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. — Dolly Parton

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. — Dolly Parton

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else. — Dolly Parton

My life has been very full. — Dolly Parton

Life is a song to me. — Dolly Parton

I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs. — Dolly Parton

I have a life outside the arenas. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Beauty

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked. — Dolly Parton

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men. — Dolly Parton

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone. — Dolly Parton

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. — Dolly Parton

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period. — Dolly Parton

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks]. — Dolly Parton

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Success

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down. — Dolly Parton

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area. — Dolly Parton

Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success. — Dolly Parton

No one is ever successful at everything that they do. — Dolly Parton

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved. — Dolly Parton

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you. — Dolly Parton

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. — Dolly Parton

I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Strength

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. — Dolly Parton

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do. — Dolly Parton

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. — Dolly Parton

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Country

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. — Dolly Parton

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. — Dolly Parton

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do. — Dolly Parton

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields. — Dolly Parton

I'm just a simple country girl. — Dolly Parton

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound. — Dolly Parton

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording. — Dolly Parton

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. — Dolly Parton

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Inspirational

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball — Dolly Parton

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. — Dolly Parton

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. — Dolly Parton

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. — Dolly Parton

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets. — Dolly Parton

I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more. — Dolly Parton

Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world. — Dolly Parton

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair — Dolly Parton

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something. — Dolly Parton

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.' — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About People

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there. — Dolly Parton

What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them. — Dolly Parton

If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep. — Dolly Parton

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts. — Dolly Parton

People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity. — Dolly Parton

I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out! — Dolly Parton

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. — Dolly Parton

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty. — Dolly Parton

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano. — Dolly Parton

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Years

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!' — Dolly Parton

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. — Dolly Parton

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road. — Dolly Parton

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans. — Dolly Parton

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!' — Dolly Parton

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it. — Dolly Parton

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday. — Dolly Parton

That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old! — Dolly Parton

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when 'Jolene' was a big hit. — Dolly Parton

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Songs

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another. — Dolly Parton

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time. — Dolly Parton

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. — Dolly Parton

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart. — Dolly Parton

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens. — Dolly Parton

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs. — Dolly Parton

I love story songs because I've always loved books. — Dolly Parton

'Wrecking Ball' is a great song. — Dolly Parton

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends. — Dolly Parton

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Quotes About Kind

I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried. — Dolly Parton

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. — Dolly Parton

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches. — Dolly Parton

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that. — Dolly Parton

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on. — Dolly Parton

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good. — Dolly Parton

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. — Dolly Parton

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money. — Dolly Parton

We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another. — Dolly Parton

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another. — Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Famous Quotes And Sayings

Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. — Dolly Parton

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn. — Dolly Parton

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. — Dolly Parton

You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em. — Dolly Parton

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold. — Dolly Parton

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. — Dolly Parton

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt. — Dolly Parton

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way. — Dolly Parton

There's nothing like white trash at the White House. — Dolly Parton

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! — Dolly Parton

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can. — Dolly Parton

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage. — Dolly Parton

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. — Dolly Parton

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. — Dolly Parton

When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman. — Dolly Parton

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood. — Dolly Parton

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. — Dolly Parton

I count my blessings far more than I count my money. — Dolly Parton

I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow. — Dolly Parton

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. — Dolly Parton

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills. — Dolly Parton

You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so. — Dolly Parton

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures. — Dolly Parton

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen. — Dolly Parton

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me. — Dolly Parton

I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people. — Dolly Parton

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better. — Dolly Parton

I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children. — Dolly Parton

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away. — Dolly Parton

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things. — Dolly Parton

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed. — Dolly Parton

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you. — Dolly Parton

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing. — Dolly Parton

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. — Dolly Parton

My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done! — Dolly Parton

I'll never graduate from collagen. — Dolly Parton

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains. — Dolly Parton

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. — Dolly Parton

I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. — Dolly Parton

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book. — Dolly Parton

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call. — Dolly Parton

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. — Dolly Parton

I always wanted to be loved. — Dolly Parton

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. — Dolly Parton

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul. — Dolly Parton

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face. — Dolly Parton

I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast. — Dolly Parton

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale. — Dolly Parton

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!. — Dolly Parton

I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em. — Dolly Parton

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural. — Dolly Parton

I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on. — Dolly Parton

I have surrounded myself with very smart people. — Dolly Parton

Life Lessons by Dolly Parton

1. Dolly Parton has taught us that with hard work, dedication, and a positive attitude, anything is possible. She has shown us that it is possible to achieve success and make a positive impact on the world, no matter where you come from.
2. Dolly Parton has also taught us the importance of self-love and self-care, as well as the importance of giving back to the community and helping those in need.
3. Finally, Dolly Parton has taught us that it is important to be kind and compassionate to everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from. She has shown us that we can all make a difference in the world if we put our minds to it.