If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

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.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

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?‘

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I don’t want followers.

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 am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.