Sam Donaldson Quotes

My dad said: Now Teddy, you have to make up your mind whether you want to have a constructive and positive attitude and influence on your time. And if you're not interested in a purposeful, useful, constructive life, I just want you to know I have other children that are out there that intend to have a purposeful and constructive life. And so you have to make up your mind about which direction you're going to go. I remember getting - climbing into bed and staring at the ceiling for a good time, but the night hadn't been over when it was very clear to me what kind of life I wanted to lead.

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

There's still time to change the road you're on...

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career.

Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.