We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

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

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I got my own back.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

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.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I never say I am a guru.

The only shame is to have none.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

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.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.