You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

- Mary J. Blige

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

- Mary J. Blige

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

- Mary J. Blige

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

- Mary J. Blige

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

- Mary J. Blige

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

- Mary J. Blige

We are all just a work in progress.

- Mary J. Blige

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I ch…

- Mary J. Blige

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

- Mary J. Blige