Stacey Abrams Quotes

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

I know what really matters in my life.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I don't want only a career.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

The holidays are a time of reflection, and I think it becomes really clear in people's minds around this time of year what they want to get out of life, who they want to spend their life with, and what kind of person they want to be.

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?

At 22 years old, I tattooed 'family' on my wrist to not lose sight of my true goal.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.

Money is important, but it's not the only driving factor for me.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.