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

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

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

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

My life is my argument.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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 think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I’m a genetic optimist.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.