R. Kelly Quotes

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

We become the books we read.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.

If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

It's no use blaming anyone now.

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.