Morgan Freeman Quotes

Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.