Quotes by Susan Powter

About Susan Powter:

Susan Powter is an Australian-born American motivational speaker, nutritionist, personal trainer and author, who rose to fame in the 1990s with her catchphrase "Stop the Insanity!", which was the centerpiece of her weight loss infomercial.
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Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

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I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

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I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

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The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

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There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

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We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

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You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

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I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

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If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

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I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

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There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

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What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and r...

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Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

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Author Bio

  • NameSusan Powter
  • DescriptionAustralian author, motivational speaker
  • BornDecember 22, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Presenter; Motivational Speaker