These Jennifer Lopez Quotes Will Remind You to Put Love First (2024)

"Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it,” she wrote in her 2014 autobiography, True Love.

Lopez wrote in 2014's True Love,"I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations."

"I’m not here to be perfect and I’m not here to be anything but my best, whatever that means for me,” she said in a 2017 interview with Hola! magazine.

When speaking about her decision to work towards living a more fulfilling life, she told Vanity Fair in 2018, "... your mistakes are not what define you. What defines you is what you do after your mistakes and how you learn what is meant to be learned from those moments.”

"You have to remember the value of your individuality—that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can," she said in a 2007 Glamour interview.

When being interviewed by Jane Fonda for Glamour in 2011, the songstress said: "You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be OK on your own before you can be OK with somebody else. You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything."

"You really have that power to make your life whatever you want it to be,” she said in her 2018 Vanity Fair Interview.

When explaining why she and A-Rod have such a great partnership she said to Hola! magazine, "We complement each other, and there’s really pure, true love. Just wanting to support the other person and make them happy. So there’s a different selflessness in the love that’s beautiful and different. And healthy!”

"You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am, you're the one with the problem!'" she told Cosmo for Latinas.

"Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re 21, and it doesn’t end because you’re 51. You are who you are until the day you die," she said in a 2010 Elle profile.

“Ultimately, we can never change someone else’s behavior—we can only change our own,” Lopez wrote in True Love.

She opened up for a chat with Glamour in 2010: "For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications."

When speaking with Cosmopolitan for Latinas in 2013, she revealed she had to perform in front of 35,000 people while filming Selena."I just said to myself: Don’t think about it. You can do this and you’ll be great,” she explains. “I walked out onto that stage. And then I did. I’ve been following that rule ever since.”

She wrote in her autobiography True Love, "Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are."

"I feel if in your mind you can do it, you can do it. You cannot doubt yourself. Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for," she said in Glamour in 2010.

"I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself," she told Glamour in 2007.

The Hustlers star told Glamour, "Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt—but you're going to be fine."

“Always remember. You will live. You will love. You will dance again,” she said in True Love.

"I think that's what a partnership is—you take the positives from both people and incorporate them," she said in Glamour.

"Sometimes it doesn’t work—and that’s sad. But I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love,” she told Vanity Fair in 2011.