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!

About Susan Powter

Susan Powteris an Australian-born American motivational speaker, nutritionist, personal trainer, and author, who rose to fame in the 1990s with her catchphrase “Stop the Insanity!”, the centerpiece of her weight-loss infomercial.
She hosted her own talk show The Susan Powter Show in the 1990s.

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

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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 right is love.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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!

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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.

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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!

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker

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

Australian author, motivational speaker

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!

Susan Powter

Australian author, motivational speaker