Avery Brooks Quotes

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

For me, leadership is tied to self-knowledge. The examined life has become one of my ideals. To lead a people, you have to know who you are, where you come from, what you believe and why, what you're prepared to fight for or even die for, where you draw your strength, why and how you share yourself, and finally, where you would want to take the nation.