Aim for the highest.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Life well spent is long.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Men must know their limitations.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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

I’m much healthier now.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

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

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.