Misty Copeland Quotes

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.