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He is one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the “holistic-health” movement and has published more than 80 books including 22 New York Times best sellers.
Here are 116 profound Deepak Chopra quotes:
1. “If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.” – Deepak Chopra
2. “Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” – Deepak Chopra
3. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
4. “The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.” – Deepak Chopra
5. “The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.” – Deepak Chopra
6. “Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.” – Deepak Chopra
7. “So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.” – Deepak Chopra
8. “To think is to practice brain chemistry.” – Deepak Chopra
9. “So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly.” – Deepak Chopra
10. “Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.” – Deepak Chopra
11. “We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.” – Deepak Chopra
12. “The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.” – Deepak Chopra
13. “I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.” – Deepak Chopra
14. “But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.” – Deepak Chopra
15. “You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.” – Deepak Chopra
16. “Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.”- – Deepak Chopra
17. “Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.” – Deepak Chopra
18. “In every conversation I’ve had – with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums – everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma – that what you’re putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.” – Deepak Chopra
19. “No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.” – Deepak Chopra
20th Deepak Chopra Quote – “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” – Deepak Chopra
21. “The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.” – Deepak Chopra
22. “There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.” – Deepak Chopra
23. “Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.” – Deepak Chopra
24. “We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” – Deepak Chopra
25. “Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.” – Deepak Chopra
26. “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” – Deepak Chopra
27. “Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I’m speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I’m doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.” – Deepak Chopra
28. “Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.” – Deepak Chopra
29. “Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.” – Deepak Chopra
30. “New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.” – Deepak Chopra
31. “There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.” – Deepak Chopra
32. “The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.” – Deepak Chopra
33. “The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” – Deepak Chopra
34. “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” – Deepak Chopra
35. “The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.” – Deepak Chopra
36. “A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.” – Deepak Chopra
37. “Self-awareness is value-free. It isn’t scary. It doesn’t imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.” – Deepak Chopra
38. “People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.” – Deepak Chopra
39. “Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.” – Deepak Chopra
40th Deepak Chopra Quote – “Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.” – Deepak Chopra
41. “Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.” – Deepak Chopra
42. “Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.” – Deepak Chopra
43. “The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.” – Deepak Chopra
44. “Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” – Deepak Chopra
45. “For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.” – Deepak Chopra
46. “We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.” – Deepak Chopra
47. “There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.” – Deepak Chopra
48. “We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.” – Deepak Chopra
49. “Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it… every step of the way is mind over matter… We override our brains all the time.” – Deepak Chopra
50. “Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.” – Deepak Chopra
51. “Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child’s version of it cannot be the same as an old person’s.” – Deepak Chopra
52. “Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.” – Deepak Chopra
53. “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra
54. “Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” – Deepak Chopra
55. “Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.” – Deepak Chopra
56. “What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.” – Deepak Chopra
57. “Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it’s a mode of observation.” – Deepak Chopra
58. “The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.” – Deepak Chopra
59. “Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.” – Deepak Chopra
60. “Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space, time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.” – Deepak Chopra
61. “Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.” – Deepak Chopra
62. “Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world – hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.” – Deepak Chopra
63. “If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.” – Deepak Chopra
64. “Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.” – Deepak Chopra
65. “In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.” – Deepak Chopra
66. “I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn’t mean I’m going to miss my train, it just means that I’m not thinking about it right now because I’m speaking to you.” – Deepak Chopra
67. “No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.” – Deepak Chopra
68. “I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It’s part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.” – Deepak Chopra
69. “We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that’s conscious evolution.” – Deepak Chopra
70. “As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you’re going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.” – Deepak Chopra
71. “I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can’t explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.” – Deepak Chopra
72. “The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.” – Deepak Chopra
73. “It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.” – Deepak Chopra
74. “In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.” – Deepak Chopra
75. “In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.” – Deepak Chopra
76. “Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.” – Deepak Chopra
77. “We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.” – Deepak Chopra
78. “Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.” – Deepak Chopra
79. “I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.” – Deepak Chopra
80th Deepak Chopra Quote – “Passivity is the same as defending injustice.” – Deepak Chopra
81. “It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” – Deepak Chopra
82. “Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.” – Deepak Chopra
83. “Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.” – Deepak Chopra
84. “I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.” – Deepak Chopra
85. “Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.” – Deepak Chopra
86. “You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.” – Deepak Chopra
87. “People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don’t think of it like that.” – Deepak Chopra
88. “Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.” – Deepak Chopra
89. “And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which, for lack of a better word, we can call the soul. A collective component, which is more archetypal, and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.” – Deepak Chopra
90. “In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.” – Deepak Chopra
91. “There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.” – Deepak Chopra
92. “Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.” – Deepak Chopra
93. “Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.” – Deepak Chopra
94. “Every person is a god in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.” – Deepak Chopra
95. “A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.” – Deepak Chopra
96. “All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive, and quarrelsome.” – Deepak Chopra
97. “A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.” – Deepak Chopra
98. “Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.” – Deepak Chopra
99. “We’re living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.” – Deepak Chopra
100. “Karma is only in space, time, and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.” – Deepak Chopra
101. “I’ve always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.” – Deepak Chopra
102. “The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.” – Deepak Chopra
103. “There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people’s potential or even enthusiasm.” – Deepak Chopra
104. “I dislike the word ‘self-help.’ Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.” – Deepak Chopra
105. “In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.” – Deepak Chopra
106. “There is no separation between mind and body… Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.” – Deepak Chopra
107. “All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there’s an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.” – Deepak Chopra
108. “We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.” – Deepak Chopra
109. “When resources become skimpy, human beings don’t suddenly cooperate to conserve what’s left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.” – Deepak Chopra
110. “If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.” – Deepak Chopra
111. “When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people’s attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.” – Deepak Chopra
112. “Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.” – Deepak Chopra
113. “I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the prophet.” – Deepak Chopra
114. “Once you’re more aware of people’s needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you’re responsible for your own well-being, too.” – Deepak Chopra
115. “The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” – Deepak Chopra
116. “From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.” – Deepak Chopra
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Morgan Freeman is an American actor and narrator. Freeman has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He has also received 4 different Oscar nominations.
Morgan Freeman is known for his distinctively smooth, deep voice. He is ranked as the 4th highest box office star with over $4.3 Billion total box office gross sales, averaging over $74 million per film.
With a net worth of an estimated $150 million, Morgan Freeman is one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood today.
Here are 48 Extraordinary Morgan Freeman Quotes:
1. “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” – Morgan Freeman
2. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.” – Morgan Freeman
3. ”If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.” – Morgan Freeman
4. “I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.” – Morgan Freeman
5. “I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” – Morgan Freeman
6. “Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.” – Morgan Freeman
7. “I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.” – Morgan Freeman
8. “I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.” – Morgan Freeman
9. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” – Morgan Freeman
10. “People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.” – Morgan Freeman
11. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.” – Morgan Freeman
12. “Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.” – Morgan Freeman
13. “I gravitate towards gravitas.” – Morgan Freeman
14. “And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” – Morgan Freeman
15th Morgan Freeman Quote – “It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.” – Morgan Freeman
16. “I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.” – Morgan Freeman
17. “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
18. “Most of the time it’s the role. Sometimes it’s the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It’s the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I’m saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.” – Morgan Freeman
19. “I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.” – Morgan Freeman
20. “I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.” – Morgan Freeman
21. “Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.” – Morgan Freeman
22. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” – Morgan Freeman
23. “Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.” – Morgan Freeman
24. “The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we’ll do it for nothing. That’s a basic fact – you gotta do it.” – Morgan Freeman
25. “My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.” – Morgan Freeman
26. “It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.” – Morgan Freeman
27. “I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” – Morgan Freeman
28. “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.” – Morgan Freeman
29. “Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it’s a title. Don’t go around asking executive producers what they do because they don’t do anything, alright?” – Morgan Freeman
30th Morgan Freeman Quote – “Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.” -Morgan Freeman
31. “When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” – Morgan Freeman
32. “If you’re playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks – in your own mind.” – Morgan Freeman
33. “Not only do I have to live right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
34. “There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.” – Morgan Freeman
35. “Life doesn’t offer you promises whatsoever so it’s very easy to become, ‘Whatever happened to… ?’ It’s great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.” – Morgan Freeman
36. “Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.” – Morgan Freeman
37. “When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.” – Morgan Freeman
38. “As far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.” – Morgan Freeman
39. “I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.” – Morgan Freeman
40. “I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.” – Morgan Freeman
41. “You’re going to relegate my history to a month.” – Morgan Freeman
42. “Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.” – Morgan Freeman
43. “One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.” – Morgan Freeman
44. “Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.” – Morgan Freeman
45. “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away the part of you that knows it was a win to lock them up does rejoice.” – Morgan Freeman
46. “When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.” – Morgan Freeman
47. “I only get one life, and I will not let Fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.” – Morgan Freeman
48. “We humans are more concerned with having than with being.” – Morgan Freeman
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Leonardo DiCaprio is an award-winning actor and a three-time Academy Award nominee.
Born in Hollywood, California, DiCaprio started acting at the age of 14. His breakthrough feature film role came in Michael Caton-Jones’ 1993 screen adaptation of Tobias Wolff’s autobiographical drama “This Boy’s Life.”
Here are 87 Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes:
1. ” I’m not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I’m definitely an individual.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
2. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
3. “I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
4. “The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it… It’s a great outlet. I’m not really sure who I am – it seems I change every day. “– Leonardo DiCaprio
5. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
6. “I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
7. “I don’t see why I can’t have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It’s crazy.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
8. “I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
9. “I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
10. “The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
11. “I’m just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it’s taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
12. “It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!” – Leonardo DiCaprio
13. “I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
14. “The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
15. “I’ve always been spontaneous and outgoing… I’ve tried lots of things so I’ve got some good life experiences, which is great ’cause it means I’ve got lots of material to work with as an actor.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
16. “I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don’t get the opportunities that I’m getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
17. “Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don’t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I’m a weirdo.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
18. “My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
19. “My mother is a walking miracle.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
20. “Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
21. “I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
22. “I’ve managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
23. “I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people’s opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
24. “I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
25. “I really don’t know what I’m doing… I don’t. It’s terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that’s all I really do.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
26th Leonardo DiCaprio Quote –“Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
27. “I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
28. “My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
29. “I’ve been planted here to be a vessel for acting… That’s why I’m really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it’s going to be.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
30. “Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
31. “Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
32. “School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
33. “I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I’d do little unexpected performances.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
34. “I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
35. “Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
36. “I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the balls that Romeo did.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
37. “My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists – not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
38. “Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible… Her presence on screen is outstanding.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
39. “Last night’s win at the ??Oscars? was an incredible honor – but it was also an important opportunity to bring even more attention to ??climate change?. Last year was the hottest in recorded history. Climate change is real, it is the most dire crisis our species has ever known, and it is happening right now. We must empower leaders who don’t speak for corporate interests but who speak for us, our children’s children and those whose voices cannot be heard. Take action!” – Leonardo DiCaprio
40. “Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
41. “Only you and you alone can change your situation. Don’t blame it on anything or anyone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
42. “Wrong connection will give you shock throughout your life.but the right one will light up your life.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
43. “If you have done the very best you can. worrying won’t make it any better. if you want to be successful, respect one rule.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
44. “Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
45. “Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
46th Leonardo DiCaprio Quote – “Why Worry?” – Leonardo DiCaprio
47. “Never let failure take control of you.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
48. “Relationships are like electric currents.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
49. “Pay close attention to people who don’t clap when you win.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
50. “I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
51. “We are all shaped from memories we have as young people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
52. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
53. “If money isn’t everything work at McDonalds.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
54. “Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
55. “Smile, Nod, Agree, and do whatever you were going to do anyway.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
56. “I’m 97% sure you don’t like me. But I’m 100% sure i don’t care.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
57. “Cheers to my Haters, There is so much more to come!” – Leonardo DiCaprio
58. “I’m Really moved by all the people on the internet demanding that i should win an Oscar. but to be honest, I only do this job because i love it, not to win prizes” – Leonardo DiCaprio
59. “To join the top 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
60. “I will succeed and nothing in this world is going to stop me.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
61. “97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
62. “Its business! Leave your emotions at the door.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
63. “Cheers to the ones who doubted me.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
64. “Fall in love with the person who enjoys your madness. Not an idiot who forces you to be normal.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
65. “Work until you don’t have to introduce yourself.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
66. “It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: ‘Pain is temporary. Film is forever.’” – Leonardo DiCaprio
67. “I didn’t worry about what DeNiro thought… I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I’d never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
68. “Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
69. “I’ve just got to maintain my passion for what I do.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
70. “That’s the cool part of the business, going to different countries with your friends and having everything paid for by the studios.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
71. “Growing up in this business and truly wanting to be a part of the world of film, I’m a truly privileged person standing here today. But I must say, the pinnacle, the pinnacle of all that has been to work alongside one of the greatest contributors to the world of cinema of our time, and that is the great Martin Scorsese.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
72. “Enough is enough. The truth is our planet’s alarm is now going off and it’s time to wake up and take action.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
73. “This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
74th Leonardo DiCaprio Quote – “When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’” – Leonardo DiCaprio
75. “I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
76. “I always feel like I’m on a roller-coaster, but I never want to get off! There’s a certain high you’re always on.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
77. “Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
78. “People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
79. “Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
80. “Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I’m alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
81.”I’ve changed. You can’t help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
82. “When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
83. “The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be dow.”– Leonardo DiCaprio
84. “Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You’ve got to keep the faith. Who doesn’t like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It’s very romantic.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
85. “When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that’s not what I want to do. I don’t want to be a comedian to please other people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
86. “Anyone I’m with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
87. “What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
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The legendary Jim Rohn is considered to be the godfather of the self-help industry. If you haven’t heard of Jim Rohn, then you need to youtube him, google him, or buy his books today.
Jim is the guy that mentored Tony Robbins back in the day and is responsible for transforming 100’s of thousands of lives around the world.
Jim Rohn passed back in 2009 but his name, inspirational quotes and words still live on.
Enjoy, share and prepare to be inspired.
23 Inspirational Jim Rohn Quotes
“Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.” – Jim Rohn
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
“Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” – Jim Rohn
“You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” – Jim Rohn
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” – Jim Rohn
“No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude.” – Jim Rohn
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of your attention.” – Jim Rohn
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” – Jim Rohn
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
“Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom” – Jim Rohn
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.” – Jim Rohn
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
