Orlando Jones Quotes

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

Love and hope can conquer hate.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.