Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Bring them on.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.