Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

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.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Hope is a waking dream.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Genius, when young, is divine.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

There are no second acts in American lives.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.