What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

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

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.