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"2553 Motivational Quotes

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Comfortable People Life Matter
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Random Reward Safe Same
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There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same

Tendency Treat Prejudice Disability
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I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word

Play Document Disability Trigger
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Learn Speak Word Quiet
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Time Worst Storm Spring
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

People Thing Great Leader
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Better Best Rest Good
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

Struggle Unique Positive Talent's
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Know Define Ask Act
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Help Truth Hear Want
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Want Success Whom Much
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Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

Sense Smile Keep Humor
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Chance Notion Lead Overcome
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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Slow Break Progress Natural
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Long Day Smile Everyone
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Easy Faith Winner Discipline
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Endurance Fortune Come Bad
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The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Bottom Start Head Main
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Life Rest Impress Keep
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Fame Think Pay Work
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Lose Dear Permanent You
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When you’re trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain’t to be played with. You’ve got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon’ make music, let’s just make music.

Bring Already Lost Separate
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There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

Deserve Real Type Valid
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Believe Learning Best Process
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People die but legends live forever.

People Die Legend Forever
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If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.
Night Brighter Day Through
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No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.

Struggle Trouble Knows Hard
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Can’t close my eyes cause all I see is terror. I hate the man in the mirror cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer.

Eyes Terror Reflection Pain
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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Right Good Wise People
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The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.

Government Choice Worthwhile Art
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For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'

Me You Ready People
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.

Strong Black Narrative Educate
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Face Fears Doubts Worlds
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue Withstand Highest Bidder
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Human Progress Automatic Inevitable
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Preventing Action Acknowledge Fear
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So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT

Experience Often Connections Hardship
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