If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The older you get, the better you get.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.