They’ve been tryna stop the wave, but the wave don’t stop.

My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Know they’d kill me in my hood, but I just keep on comin’ through.

If you don’t know where you make your mistakes, that’s your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin’ and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

Getting off parole is like walking out them cells all over again.

I don’t feel like it’s a problem putting out a lot of content, especially for an artist like me.

I’ve been dealing with fake friends, though, like a lot of people trying to come around.

I don’t know all the ingredients in that, and I don’t know what all that’s made of, and love that. Just like I don’t know you.

I’m still at the point where I’m trying to get people to fall in love with who Tee Grizzley is.

I’m experiencing a lot of new things in life – cars, houses, jewelry – and getting the family situated.

So, I am capable of loving something I don’t know everything about.

I just wanted to put out new content, and that was the first thing.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don’t just want to do this for temporary money.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

I pay my mama bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

Remain humble but stay hungry.

I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

I don’t even know what to feel, they don’t even know what’s real.

Money come around like a hoover making Freebandz in the future.

I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself. Man, I been on my own, Lord, I’ma need some help.

Man, it’s been so damn long, dealing with the things I’ve felt.

I can’t even trust my friends. Most of them might be foes.

They only know Denzel Curry, but they don’t really know Denzel.

As you cry on me a thousand lakes on my shoulder blade, I say everything’s gonna be okay.

When I go, I know death don’t do apologies.

It makes me feel good just to know that I’m touching people.

Everything I do standout I feel like, everybody gravitates towards it.

I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive.

All I watch is war movies. The stories be touching… just to see what they go through on both sides of the fence.

I respect mother**king character. Actions. Backgrounds.

It’s like a third person feeling. It’s like, you see it happen. It’s like my soul came out of my body and I was watching myself get hit.

I feel like I had more fun when I was young.

My music is my music, that’s what people want to hear, so I’m going to give ’em what they want to hear.

What does the cross on your forehead signify? It’s a knife, it’s a dagger.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won’t hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.

I don’t cook, ’cause I don’t know how to cook.

Cause our presence is a present, just to kick it is a blessing.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

Life is a bitch, life is a like a ho. Hoes want the money, money come and goes.

I’m starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn’t think listen to me really do.

My all gold grills give her cold chills. Said she’s got a coke feel cause I’m so trill.

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.

I don’t need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

I feel like God put me here to help out with people’s soul, man.

You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.

Take a shot, make a friend, just enjoy the moment. I’m Luke Skywalkin’ on these haters

I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever, especially if they’re around me.

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

I ain’t want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don’t want anybody to kind of look at me like that.

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.

In my world, of course, it don’t matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write … This is a true freestyle in general.

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you’re a kid.

When it comes to swag, there’s no gender involved.

I just put anything on my back. I take what I have on hand.

I don’t want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

There is no better day than today to do the things you’ve been putting off. Take action; it’s the only way to change your life!

Never give up believing that there is hope for better days to come. Bad things happen for a reason and sometimes it is to bring us to those better days.

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It’s an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It’s a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it. 

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Better days are coming, I wish that they could bear with me. So all the blessings that I get, they can share it with me. 

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray. 

Have faith in tomorrow, for it can bring better days. Never wish for yesterday, for it has gone its separate ways. Believe in today, for it’s what you’re living now. 

If you were a quitter you would have given up on life a long time ago. The fact that you’re still here proves that you’re a fighter with hopes of better days. 

As you wait for better days, don’t forget to enjoy today, in case they’ve already started.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. 

Don’t ever lose hope because better days are coming.

The very second you begin to doubt is the minute you lose sight of your outcome. Even in our darkest hour, will we find better days. Don’t let the years pass, reflecting the light that becomes your shadow. 

Every situation in life is temporary so, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And when life isn’t so good, remember that I will not last forever and better days are on the way.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.

Life has no limitations except the ones you make. 

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeeded.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. 

If I persist long enough I will win. 

The first step is you have to say that you can. 

Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.

At the end of the day, all you need is hope and strength. Hope that it will get better, and strength to hold on until it does.

It never gets easier; you just get better.

Maybe not today or not tomorrow. But things will get better and you will say “I made it!”

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now but it never rains forever. 

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.”

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Don’t start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today. 

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. 

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

You get better at working by working. And if you don’t work, you’re not getting better.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

If you believe in what you’re doing, you should just do it. You’ll keep getting better.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better. 

You can always get better. The day you stop getting better is the day you shouldn’t be living. Gotta constantly improve and continue to grow within yourself. 

I’m getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says ‘I’ve never had an awkward moment with a girl’ is a liar. 

When you’re younger, it’s about, ‘How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?’ As you get older, it’s, ‘How can this football team improve?’ While all along getting better along the way.

I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game – you know, a putback dunk off a rebound. I had never done that. He told me that he’d get me a pair of new shoes if I did it. I just kept trying. I couldn’t get it, couldn’t get it, couldn’t get it. It took me a year or so. Finally, one game, I got it. 

Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better. 

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting spectators.

I just want to keep improving, to keep getting better. 

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we’re out on the football field. We’re working out or playing Madden. We’re spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.

I like to think that as I get older I’m getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better. 

As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

If everyone just accepted you the way you are, then, probably, you’d still be the way you were. So for anyone who didn’t accept you at one point, just give ’em a smile in your heart and say, “Thank You”!

Acknowledging our heartache and our hardship is the first step in coping and dealing with it. 

Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell. 

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves. 

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. — Faefever

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. ― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. ― The Glass Menagerie

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Behind every successful man, there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.

I’ve never met a person with an easy past.

One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain. – Unknown

No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself. — Unknown

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth. — Unknown

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. — Unknown

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. 

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — Christopher Robin to Pooh

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. 

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 

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.

The hardest thing to do in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. 

Don’t pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Nothing good comes cheaply so we shouldn’t be surprised when we meet the hard while going for the best. Hard times are not quit times.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn’t do. 

There are three things that I’m addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I’m addicted to the cheer moment. ‘Librarians’ has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and ‘Librarians’ is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved. 

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard – sometimes unbearably hard – and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that’s a cool thing.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

I’ve always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse. 

I think most people have a general sense that when you’re released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that’s true only for a relative few.

If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A dancer’s life is hard – it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I think there’s nothing better than laughing in life, so that’s nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It’s ’cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that’s fine.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there’s no president of England, and I’m not British.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard.

Life is hard. It is. And it’s like, I don’t want anybody feeling any pain.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

When I hear somebody say ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask ‘Compared to what?’

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube.

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they’re gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that’s what I give them. That’s all I’m trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it’s all easy.

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours – and, if you’re really lucky, full days – where everything feels just right.

Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness. Those are actually the days I am fighting my hardest.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

When you’re feeling your worst, that’s when you get to know yourself the best.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them in other people’s eyes.

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.