Queen Latifah Quotes

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.