Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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

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

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Affluence means influence.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

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.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I am just one human being.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

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

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I’m filthy rich!

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I think and that is all that I am.

I don’t regret anything.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.