I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Everybody has a purpose.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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 grew up in a funny way.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.