Nafessa Williams Quotes

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

Life is short. You've got to live your dreams.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

I am just a girl chasing her dreams and having an amazing adventure.

I feel life becomes very boring when you don't have challenges in life.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I'm living out my dreams every day.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

Life itself is inspiration.

It's quite a feeling to be living your dream, and it seems easy to be like I am.

For most of my career, I've known what it's like to be in the audience and to enjoy what I'm seeing but still have the ambition to say, 'I can do that, I know I can do that. And I want to do that, and I can't wait for that to happen.'

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

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.