Stevie Wonder quotes

quotes - Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Stevie Wonder

quotes - Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”

— Stevie Wonder

quotes - You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

“You can't base your life on other people's expectations.”

— Stevie Wonder

quotes - Time is long but life is short.

“Time is long but life is short.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

— Stevie Wonder

“God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Minds ripen at very different ages.”

— Stevie Wonder

“What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!”

— Stevie Wonder

“Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.”

— Stevie Wonder

“First of all, I'm no better than the next person.”

— Stevie Wonder

“For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I am all for stem cell research.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I am not a normal man.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I do believe in women. I really do.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.”

— Stevie Wonder

“If you don't ask, you don't get.”

— Stevie Wonder

“My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I know there are thousands of images of me.”

— Stevie Wonder

“I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.”

— Stevie Wonder