3. “Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.”
4. “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”
5. “I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning.”
6. “Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.”
7. “People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter—it’s that simple.”
8. “The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.”
9. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
10. “Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside, and something else takes its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.”
11. “You can get through this. You are bigger than your pain. Don’t give up. Don’t give in.”
12. “If you can look up, you can get up.”
13. “No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.”
14. “I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around—people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.”
15. “You master Monday, you start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!”
16. “I use pain to push me to greatness.”
17. “Your relationships will either make you or break you, and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship.”
18. “I am not suggesting that emotions don’t have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything.”
19. “I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give.”
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20. “Can you honestly say the environments you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?”
21. “Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind.”
22. “You can’t cheat the grind. It knows how much you’ve invested. It won’t give you nothing you haven’t worked for.”
23. “Stop whining, start grinding.”
24. “You want to be a millionaire, but your value system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!”
25. “Keep grinding! Stay persistent! One day you’re gonna wake up and be exactly where you dreamed you would be.”
26. “I’ve got a dream that’s worth more than my sleep.”
27. “You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You have to be willing to sacrifice sleep. If you sleep, you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”
28. “Maybe, just maybe, I was pointing the finger because it was easier to than it was to make adjustments.”
29. “Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about . Consistency!”
30. “The most important thing is this—to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are for what you will become!”
31. “God has a purpose for your pain, a reason for your struggles, and a reward for your faithfulness. Don’t give up.”
32. “I’m not the smartest. But you will not outwork me! I wake up every morning at 3 o’clock!”
33. “An uses the storm to reach unimaginable heights.”
34. “You can start from the bottom, and by the grace of God, work your way all the way up to the top man.”
35. “The difference between those who succeed and fail—not taking advantage of opportunities.”
36. “Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions, and actions.”
37. “Don’t cry to quit! You are already in pain, you already hurt! Get a reward from it!”
38. “Every trial you go through, every tribulation you go through, every setback you go through, God is redesigning you and putting more dimples on you baby, so you can go farther!”
39. “I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”
40. “Everybody wants to be a beast, until it’s time to do what real beasts do.”
41. “If you’re going to go to your next level, your values are going to have to change.”
42. “You’ll never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do.”
43. “Most of you won’t be successful because when you’re studying and you get tired, you quit!”
44. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
45. “Fall in love with the process and the results will come.”
46. “You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.”
47. “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanence!”
48. “When you get to a place where you don’t go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you’re gonna see your life change tremendously.”
49. “When you have something good, you don’t play with it! You don’t take chances with it! You don’t take risks with it! When you get something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.”
50. “I’m here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad, you just kinda want it.”
51. “You got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality—and when you do, you just got to take advantage of it.”
52. “You can’t shine like a diamond, if you are not willing to get cut like a diamond!”
53. “Yup, it’s hard. It’s difficult. Why? Because the process is weeding out the weak!”
54. “For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.”
55. “Although my circumstance was homeless, my vision wasn’t!”
56. “Don’t tell me you’re going to be on the honor roll. Go to work, and show me!”
57. “You gotta be willing to face every fear! Climb every mountain! Defy every odd!”
58. “When you find your ‘why’, you don’t hit snooze no more! You find a way to make it happen!”
59. “You can’t quit or give up before you get it!”
60. “Some of you, with the way you are running right now, the way you are working, you will be extinct.”
61. “When you’re great, you attract great. When you’re average, you attract average.”
62. “You ain’t average! But you know what? You’re playing small because it’s easier to be average.”
63. “Stop being average. You’re not even good. You were born to be great.”
64. “Get to the point where you get allergic to average! You don’t think average!”
65. “The difference between average and good, good and great, great and phenomenal, is their mindset!”
66. “I don’t ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.”
67. “Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness.”
68. “It’s realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory—the dream can be had by anyone. The memory must be made.”
69. “I’m that guy that comes into your high school and tells you, ‘You can make it happen! Greatness is upon you! You better act like it!’”
70. “We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.”
71. “My greatest asset is I was homeless. So, I can’t feel a whole lot of pain. I’ve already been alone. There’s not a whole of I can feel, on a little paper, on a little test.”
72. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, everyday. Greatness is never on discount.”
73. “What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.”
74. “You won’t be great until you do more without the ball in your hand than you do when the ball is in your hand.”
75. “Be phenomenal or be forgotten.”
76. “When you catch yourself thinking negatively, stop. Redirect to something positive.”
77. “Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.”
78. “Apply the ABC’s of success to your life—Ask, Believe and Claim it.”
79. “You know school ain’t my first love, but we gotta get in here and do itm so that young people can know that for real it’s past possible—there’s absolutely nothing that we can’t accomplish.”
80. “The problem is, you get more excited talking about it than you do when you’re actually doing it!”
81. “It’s one thing to talk about your destiny. It’s one thing to dream about your destiny. It’s one thing to look at your destiny. But it’s another thing to make the decisions—to wake up when you know you’re supposed to wake up!”
82. “Take advantage of opportunity, because if you do, doors are going to open up for you.”
83. “It’s about optimal movement, decisive movement—he most effective movement.”
84. “The competitive edge is not something that—it’s not the top tier management. It’s not something that they give you.”
85. “Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s okay to lose; but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it’s got to hurt.”
86. “Stop sabotaging yourself.”
87. “Some of you have never learned to grow up!”
88. “At the end of pain is success.”
89. “If you’re not where you are, if you’re not where you want to be, if you don’t have what you want, want to have, if you’re not where you think you should be at this particular place, it has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you’re not making the sacrifice.”
90. “Wilma Rudolph, Helen Keller, , Joan of Arc, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Edison, to name a few, not only climbed mountains, they exceeded limits and expanded boundaries—setting the tone for those who respect and admire them.”
91. “Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”
92. “You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you’re going to have to free yourself!”
93. “Be obsessed with improvement!”
94. “You’ve got to do me a favor, you can get around all these people and get around all this information, but if you do not believe, it ain’t gon’ happen!”
95. “Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth.”
96. “What you do the year before, you gonna reap the benefits of it this year.”
97. “It ain’t nothing you can’t have if you are willing to persevere—willing to stick in there!”
98. “You gotta decide to be happy. Where you wanna live, what you wanna drive—you have to make a decision!”
99. “You gotta stay hungry! Stay focused! And you better have heart—the heart of a champion!”
100. “The reason why you’ll never be successful is because you procrastinate. You never finish stuff!”
101. “What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days, you see a change in your life.”
102. “Success—meaningful success—begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life.”
103. “I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.”
104. “Be more intentional about the direction we allow our minds to go.”
105. “Information changes situations.”
106. “As long as you’re being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.”
107. “I’m intoxicated on success!”
108. “A setback is a setup for a comeback.”
109. “There is nothing wrong with dreaming big dreams; just know that all roads that lead to success have to pass through Hardwork Boulevard at some point.”
110. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
111. “Success is not for the weak and uncommitted. Sometimes it’s gonna hurt!”
112. “Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!”
113. “Avoid being your own enemy.”
114. “I’ve been trying to tell y’all—it’s not your circumstances or situation that determines if you’re gonna be successful or not. I’ve been telling you, it’s ! It’s the way you see it. It’s the way you think it right!”
115. “Look in the mirror, that’s your competition.”
116. “No alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me.”
117. “I don’t care if you’re broke, you grew up broke, or you grew up rich—you only get 24 hours!”
118. “I’m exactly where I wanted to be because I realized I gotta commit my very being to this thing.”
119. “Some of you need to give up your cell phone!”
120. “The time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success. The time you could be using to be successful, you’re using on the cell! And the cell phone is not bringing you anything but a bill!”
121. “At some point in life, you have to face your fears.”
122. “Be stronger than your excuses.”
123. “It’s not about where you come from, it’s about heart! You come to a place where you know being smart ain’t enough. You gotta have heart.”
124. “And the problem with most of you, you’ve never felt before.”
125. “If you think you can kind of chill out, start coasting; look, you are sadly mistaken.”
126. “Just because it doesn’t look like a blessing, doesn’t mean it ain’t a blessing.”
127. “There’s somebody else just like you trying to do it, but you gotta do it faster than they do it!”