Nia Long Quotes

Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

Just don't hate on anybody; just do what you, you know what I'm saying? Just do you. Just work at it, keep workin' at it.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

Be sure of what you want work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

It's so important that you are constantly moving. And when things are hard, it will just make you fight harder - that's what you need to develop as a person, I think.

It's a learning process, and now I know that even when you don't have a title, or you're not in a main event caliber program, you have to remain 'main event level' and always not allow anything to hinder that.

When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.

You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.

You play the game to compete and you want to be a starter, but at the same time you don't want to rush yourself to be in any situation that could possibly lead you back to where you are today.

Education, hard work, dedication, a support system, and knowing my life had value - these were what had made all the difference.

If you keep a healthy state of mind, you give yourself a great chance to bring out the best in yourself.

I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

I want to clean up my handle. Get stronger. Those are the things that will help me out in the long run.

I can only control what I can control, which is taking care of my business here and working hard every single day, and eventually that time will come.

I will always continue to work hard, become stronger, and learn to love myself for who I am, imperfections and all.

I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.