Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

Growing up, I wanted to be in WWE because of watching characters like Stephanie McMahon and Paul Heyman. They just are such incredible storytellers, such incredible, compelling characters.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

I've got a lot of male energy.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.

There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you.

If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable. It was rare for me to idolize a movie star or a singer...because, truly, children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.