Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is the “King of Pop“, and one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. He had a lasting impact, rather than a fleeting entertainment. His music inspired and changed billions worldwide. Inspirational Michael Jackson quotes will make you mentally stronger and encourage you to be a better person.
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Best Michael Jackson Quotes
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change. – Michael Jackson
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. – Michael Jackson
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. – Michael Jackson
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. – Michael Jackson
Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me…. – Michael Jackson
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? – Michael Jackson
Me and Janet really are two different people. – Michael Jackson
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. – Michael Jackson
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. – Michael Jackson
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. – Michael Jackson
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. – Michael Jackson
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. – Michael Jackson
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. – Michael Jackson
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to. – Michael Jackson
I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am. – Michael Jackson
I’m going to search for my star until I find it. It’s hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder. – Michael Jackson
Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough. – Michael Jackson
You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town. – Michael Jackson
My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience. – Michael Jackson
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court. – Michael Jackson
Some friends are like shadows, you only see them when the sun shines. – Michael Jackson
To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world. – Michael Jackson
I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. – Michael Jackson
I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing? – Michael Jackson
I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you’re not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what. – Michael Jackson
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I’d hide my face in the dark, I wouldn’t want to look in the mirror and my father teased me, and I just hated it and I cried every day. – Michael Jackson
I will never stop helping and loving people. – Michael Jackson
A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life. – Michael Jackson
Inspirational Michael Jackson Quotes on Life, Music and Dreams
I just wish I could understand my father. – Michael Jackson
My attitude is if fashion says it’s forbidden, I’m going to do it. – Michael Jackson
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. – Michael Jackson
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I’m crazy about her. – Michael Jackson
Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky. – Michael Jackson
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. – Michael Jackson
Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become. – Michael Jackson
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. – Michael Jackson
Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little, I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her. – Michael Jackson
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater. – Michael Jackson
My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. – Michael Jackson
This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on. – Michael Jackson
You can’t hurt me, I found peace within myself. – Michael Jackson
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice. – Michael Jackson
Work like there’s no tomorrow. Train. Strive. Really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. – Michael Jackson
Sometimes when you’re treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe. – Michael Jackson
Sometimes I really want to ask, what happened to the truth? Is it out of fashion? – Michael Jackson
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK? But when people make up stories that I don’t want to be what I am it hurts me. – Michael Jackson
It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Michael Jackson
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. – Michael Jackson
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him. – Michael Jackson
Some people try to find love outside themselves, while love is in my heart, it’s everywhere. – Michael Jackson
Deep Michael Jackson Quotes on Success and Happiness
Before you judge me, try hard to love me, look within your heart. Then ask: – have you seen my childhood? – Michael Jackson
I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity or bad words. – Michael Jackson
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. – Michael Jackson
I’d slit my wrists rather than hurt a child. I could never do that. No-one will ever know how much these wicked rumors have hurt me. – Michael Jackson
I’m interested in making a path instead of following a trail. – Michael Jackson
They used to call me a 45-year-old midget wherever I went. – Michael Jackson
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. – Michael Jackson
She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene, I said, ‘Don’t mind, but what do you mean I am the one, who will dance on the floor in the round?’ – Michael Jackson
When you have a special gift, you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift. – Michael Jackson
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have busloads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children and enjoy it. – Michael Jackson
All of us are products of our childhood. – Michael Jackson
You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? – Michael Jackson
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. – Michael Jackson
Chin up kid, they’d love to see you fall. – Michael Jackson
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink – it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. – Michael Jackson
Forever continue to love, heal and educate the children, the future shines on them. – Michael Jackson
Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do. – Michael Jackson
Famous Michael Jackson Quotes To Broaden Your Perspective
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. – Michael Jackson
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. – Michael Jackson
I’m starting with the man in the mirror. – Michael Jackson
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. – Michael Jackson
Always believe in yourself, no matter who’s around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off because whatever you believe, you become. – Michael Jackson
I know who I am inside and outside, and what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams. – Michael Jackson
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work. – Michael Jackson
I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am. – Michael Jackson
I think it’s important to help out as much as you can. Just to help one person means a lot. It’s a big step forward. – Michael Jackson
I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. – Michael Jackson
We can fly, you know. We just don’t know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground. – Michael Jackson
I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am. – Michael Jackson
People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell. – Michael Jackson
The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world. – Michael Jackson
When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see. – Michael Jackson
My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. – Michael Jackson
I’ll always be Peter Pan in my heart. – Michael Jackson
Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel. – Michael Jackson
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting. – Michael Jackson
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. – Michael Jackson
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. – Michael Jackson
I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily. – Michael Jackson
People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me. – Michael Jackson
Unknown Michael Jackson Facts
Jackson dreamed of playing the role of Spiderman so much that he once tried to purchase Marvel Comics when it filed for bankruptcy just so he could cast himself as the character.
He has faced some issues with skin color over his years performing and later in his retirement appeared in the media for his strange actions.
Jackson claims Mexican food was his favorite type of cuisine to order for takeout.
Whilst growing up Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson would force Michael alongside his siblings to practice music.
While many fans are familiar with Jackson’s treasured pet llamas, Louis and Lola, they may not know that he routinely took the pair with him to his recording studio in Los Angeles.
Growing up in this environment forced Michael to be the best at what he did musically and caused a lot of mental pressure on him.
The love interest in Thriller was Ola Ray, a Playboy Playmate who apparently tried to proposition Michael when they were filming the music video.
The Neverland Ranch mansion was listed for $100 million in 2015, but was discounted several times until the Pittsburg Penguins co-owner purchased the estate for $22 million in 2019.
Jackson’s doctor said that he had Vitiligo, a skin disease where the color of your skin changes, but there are many other thoughts and theories.
