Patrick Swayze Quotes

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

My work... is my legacy.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.