DeMar DeRozan Quotes

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.

My aim is to write my own piece of history - to try to give joy to my family, all Real Madrid supporters and to everyone who believed in me.

There isn't really anyone I modelled myself on.

Black, white, Chinese, it don't matter - I've been told by multiple people that I'm very inspiring to them, and it makes them want to achieve whatever they can achieve.

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'

A young man who came from Columbus, Ohio and made it, and who wants every other young man and young woman, black or white, to know that if I could do it, they could do it. Me and my fans grew up together, and I believe they know I'm a walking billboard and proof of that. That's what I see when I look in the mirror.

If you want to inspire the world, first inspire yourself.

Another thing I like to say to my students is this: "How many Corinthians read Paul's letters?" The answer is none. They couldn't have cared less! There aren't even any Corinthians left, but Paul's letters persist. Paul was not a professional writer. He was called to something, and he sent his letters. That's a good way to look at it. That you might be making something that nobody cares about, but you have to do it. It's not that people should care, but that you should care.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!