Copeland Quotes & Sayings

Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey. — Misty Copeland

God put laws into being - we put them into motion. — Kenneth Copeland

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend. — Carson McCullers

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance. — Misty Copeland

Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page. — Brooklyn Copeland

Start unknown, finish unforgettable. — Misty Copeland

More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves. — Misty Copeland

It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing. — Misty Copeland

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move. — Misty Copeland

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. — Misty Copeland

Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose! — Kenneth Copeland

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible. — Misty Copeland

I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I think it is important to understand who you are. — Misty Copeland

Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move! — Kenneth Copeland

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. — Misty Copeland

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. — Misty Copeland

'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world. — Misty Copeland

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing. — Bill Copeland

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. — Bill Copeland

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States. — Misty Copeland

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas. — Lori Copeland

Knowing that it has never been done before makes me want to fight even harder. — Misty Copeland

Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the Glades by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him 'waterfront' lots to sell. As far north as Corkscrew Swamp, virgin stands of ancient bald cypress are dying. All the area north of Copeland had been logged out, and will never come back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with egret colonies dwindling, mullet getting scarce, mangrove dying of new diseases born of dryness. — John D. MacDonald

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it. — Misty Copeland

Life is a free circus. All you have to do is pay attention. — Bill Copeland

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is. — Misty Copeland

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me. — Misty Copeland

When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that. — Misty Copeland

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it. — Misty Copeland

How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away. — Bill Copeland

Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now. — Douglas Copeland

A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina. — Misty Copeland

Just to get into a company like ABT is a dream come true, but to have all of these opportunities on top of it, I don't think it will hit me until I'm 70. I'll be like, "Oh, my god, remember that amazing life you had?" It's an incredible honor to be a part of something like ABT. — Misty Copeland

I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is ... The biggest one in the whole Bible is God ... I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man ... Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one. — Kenneth Copeland

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself. — Misty Copeland

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this. — Misty Copeland

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. — Bill Copeland

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining. — Stewart Copeland

God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, 'Where have you been?' Wasn't any of God's business. He [Satan] didn't even have to answer if he didn't want to ... God didn't argue with him a bit! You see, this is the position that God's been in Might say, 'Well, if God's running things He's doing a lousy job of it.' He hadn't been running 'em, except when He's just got, you know, a little bit of a chance. — Kenneth Copeland

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet. — Misty Copeland

Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would be so excited to have an opportunity to continue to push myself and grow, as an artist. — Misty Copeland

My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people fall in love with their world, their planet. With the understanding that you don't save what you don't love. — Sebastian Copeland

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland

The Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true! — Kenneth Copeland

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them. — Misty Copeland

To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special. — Misty Copeland

Without my mentors, there is no Misty. — Misty Copeland

I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity. — Misty Copeland

Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me. — Misty Copeland

Doing the right thing is often a lonely road — Adam Copeland

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class. — Misty Copeland

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world — Misty Copeland

Decide what you want. Declare it to the world. See yourself winning. And remember that if you are persistent as well as patient, you can get whatever you seek. — Misty Copeland

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice. — Misty Copeland

It is not just saying prayers that gets results, but it is spending time with the Father, learning His wisdom, drawing on His strength, being filled with His quietness, and basking in His love that bring results to our prayers. Praise the Lord! — Germaine Copeland

If you are sad and depressed, that means you're not believing God. — Gloria Copeland

I love heels. I'm 5-foot-2, and I like feeling tall. — Misty Copeland

I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world. — Misty Copeland

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family. — Lori Copeland

I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do. — Misty Copeland

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. — Misty Copeland

Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard. — Adam Copeland

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class. — Misty Copeland

I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should. — Misty Copeland

It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good. — Chris Copeland

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies — Kenneth Copeland

Lilith," he says, and he sounds so boy next door, so apologetic, that I can hardly even believe he's breaking up with me. [...]
I told you - I told you - that guys like Copeland Park were the most dangerous. The nice ones, the sweet ones, the ones that promise that everything will be okay with a single look. They're the ones that fuck you over the hardest. — C.M. Stunich

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality. — Stewart Copeland

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s. — Misty Copeland

I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday — Misty Copeland

In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance. — Misty Copeland

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be. — Misty Copeland

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event. — Stewart Copeland

You are not your body. — Douglas Copeland

Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work. — Gloria Copeland

After all is said and done, sit down. — Bill Copeland

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the ... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner. — Misty Copeland

Rookie agent Melody Ganz spoke up. Ganz was on temporary assignment to Bravo after her gorgeous legs caught Kelli Randleman's attention early on in the Copeland investigation. Although basically straight, Melody had experimented a little in college and saw nothing wrong with switch-hitting if it got her out of the Bureau's dreadful backwater office in Jacksonville, South Carolina. — Jess Money

Be BLESSED-spirit, soul, body and financially. — Kenneth Copeland

When I was dancing, I felt in control and happy. I'm a Virgo, so I really like to be in control. — Misty Copeland

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed. — Misty Copeland

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education. — Misty Copeland

We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft. — Libby Copeland

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love. — Lori Copeland

A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according to high ethical standards. It must be self-policing. Without such a code, a professional soldier or a group soon loses identity and effectiveness. Once we know our job, have a genuine code of ethics, and maintain unquestioned personal integrity, we have met the first and most demanding challenge of leadership. — Silas L. Copeland

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose. — Misty Copeland

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments. — Stewart Copeland

The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style. — Taylor Hawkins

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there. — Misty Copeland

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world. — Misty Copeland

My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it. — Misty Copeland

With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time. — Heather Watts

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith. — Kenneth Copeland

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one. — Misty Copeland

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special. — Misty Copeland

I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe. — Misty Copeland

So are you saying I'm your Superman?"

--- Josh Copeland — Dawn Chartier

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods! — Kenneth Copeland

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation — Misty Copeland

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal. — Misty Copeland