Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Never, never, never give up.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

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

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.