Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers … for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

No one looks stupid when they’re having fun!

[at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear she’s amazing in it.

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.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

That’s how we do it… we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

lf you don’t think everyday is a great day, try going without one.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

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.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Rules are meant to be broken.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.