Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I’m much healthier now.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

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

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Hope is a waking dream.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.