Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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.

I don’t regret anything.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Success is the child of audacity.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

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

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

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

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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.

You should never give up your inner self.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Libraries raised me.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.