Stuart Wilde Quotes

To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

Some shots, for me, are a good shot even if it's forced. The way it might look to a person watching, they might look at it like, 'That's a tough shot.' But for me, it's not a tough decision. I'm committed to those shots, and I spend time working on them.

It may not be the most popular thing online, but I believe in what I'm doing. I believe in what I'm creating at my dojo.

I'm happy to fight for any role.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.