LL Cool J Quotes

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

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.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

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

Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.

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

I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.