Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

If I can sit on national television, and people are listening to what I think, anyone can do anything.

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

I tell people to use me as example of what they can do if they don't give up. I like people to see me as a 'girl next door' who conquered and went after what she wanted.

People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in 'That Will Never Work' I show them how!

I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

You can do anything you want to do.

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.