Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Hill Harper - Page 2

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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.
For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.
We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. — © Hill Harper
We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.
No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.
The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.
If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?
My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.
It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.
At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.
People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.
Voting is an individual, personal thing. — © Hill Harper
Voting is an individual, personal thing.
The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.
Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.
Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.
The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'
Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.
I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.
What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.
Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.
I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter.
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.
I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'
Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership. — © Hill Harper
Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.
My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.
We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.
I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.
We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.
Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?
Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life. — © Hill Harper
Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.
I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.
You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.
There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.
This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.
It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.
All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.
People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do.
Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.
My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
Money is simply a tool to give you choices.
Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
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