Al Sharpton Quotes

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

The best path through life is the highway.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.