“There’s more to life than movies.” Paul Walker was an American actor started becoming well known in films such as Varsity Blues and She’s All That. He saw international fame for his role of Brian O’Conner in the ‘Fast and the Furious’ franchise. Paul Walker past away in a major car accident in 2013 due to sustained injuries.  RIP Paul Walker.

Check out these motivational Paul Walker quotes on life and success!

Here are 62 Inspirational Paul Walker Quotes:

1. “Sometimes the hurdles aren’t really hurdles at all. They’re welcome challenges, tests.” – Paul Walker

2. “If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.” – Paul Walker

3. “I’m extremely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorize me, I sorta get hungry.” – Paul Walker

4. “There’s a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.” – Paul Walker

5. “Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.” – Paul Walker

6. “I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.” – Paul Walker

7. “When you put good will out there, it’s amazing what can be accomplished.” – Paul Walker

8. “There’s a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I’m not as cool as I once was.” – Paul Walker

9. “The dream is to have it all. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time – I want to get it all in.” – Paul Walker

10. “Train your mind to see the good in everything.” – Paul Walker

11. “My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.” – Paul Walker

12. “I’m a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, ‘I should be there; I should be helping out.’” – Paul Walker

13. “I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It’s really, really hard for me.” – Paul Walker

14. “If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.” – Paul Walker

15. “I’m a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.” – Paul Walker

16. “You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.” – Paul Walker

17. “We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.” – Paul Walker

18. “Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it’s easy to lose sight of your dreams.” – Paul Walker

19. “I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.” – Paul Walker

20. “What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.” – Paul Walker

21. “You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” – Paul Walker

22. “There are a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I’m not as cool as I once was.”- Paul Walker

23. “As for Hollywood, I’ve got a killer job, and I’m having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can’t afford it. And, God willing, I’ll be able to do all that till the day I die.” – Paul Walker

24. “You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective.” – Paul Walker

25. “Basically, you’re selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it’s like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.” – Paul Walker

26. “What I’ve found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it’s the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.” – Paul Walker

27. “I don’t care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.” – Paul Walker

28. “Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.” – Paul Walker

29. “It’s not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.” – Paul Walker

30. “I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.” – Paul Walker

31. “My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I’m not a big sugar guy.” – Paul Walker

32. “‘The Fast’ is tough; it’s not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that’s what also makes it fun.” – Paul Walker

33. “When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.” – Paul Walker

34. “Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it’s okay for us to say ‘I love you’ or whatever. It’s always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That’s just the way he always was.” – Paul Walker

35. “Attitude is attitude, whether you’re a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?” – Paul Walker

36. “I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.” – Paul Walker

37. “I almost sabotaged my career. ‘The Fast and the Furious’ didn’t let me, and I’m grateful now. That franchise gave me the opportunity.” – Paul Walker

38. “My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.” – Paul Walker

39. “I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn’t happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.” – Paul Walker

40. “That’s one thing about Hollywood. People don’t always want what’s real. People always want a little more. So for me, it’s a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.” – Paul Walker

41. “I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.” – Paul Walker

42. “I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.” – Paul Walker

43. “I’m a crazy car guy. I’ve got an airplane hangar full of cars.” – Paul Walker

44. “I wanna work with good people. I don’t want to work with screaming, yelling directors who’ve got daddy issues. I just don’t want to deal with those guys.” – Paul Walker

45. “I’ve always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I’m not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That’s just not who I am. I’m more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.” – Paul Walker

46. “I hope I’m in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.”- Paul Walker

47. “If you spend any time with a man, you’ll realize that we’re all still little boys.”- Paul Walker

48. “I’m not afraid of anything. That’s just the way I am.”- Paul Walker

49. “My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.”- Paul Walker

50. “Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing.”- Paul Walker

51. “Maybe this is just horribly bad, but I think I’ve had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There’s no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.”- Paul Walker

52. “I grew up hunting and fishing. I’ve always been into archery. I’ve always been into cars… In my family, that was just stuff we did. That’s just the way it was.”- Paul Walker

53. “I’ve always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.”- Paul Walker

54. “I’m a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.”- Paul Walker

55. “I’m a science guy. I’m a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I’d be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.”- Paul Walker

56. “I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing’s simple. It’s real.” – Paul Walker

57. “One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I’ve never pulled this myself.”- Paul Walker

58. “I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.”- Paul Walker

59. “I think my mom put it best. She said, Little girls, soften their daddy’s hearts.”- Paul Walker

60. “I don’t go for the flash and panache.”- Paul Walker

61.  “In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I’m across the board.”- Paul Walker

62.  “The mornings along the coast where the fog and must meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favorite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains – The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!”- Paul Walker

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