Curtis jackson quotes

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

its not about the dog in the fight, its about the fight in the dog!

I have less compassion than the average human.

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them

Show No Love , Cus Love Can Get U killed

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

Being broke is against my religion.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

I'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

I've been patiently waiting to blow!

You either pray or worry. Don't do both.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

I never allowed my fear to limit me.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.

If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?

Get rich or die tryin'.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself.

If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

If I'm focused while I'm strokin I could change how you walk

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

He who fears fate lives like a coward

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.

At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.

Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red.

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

what comes around goes around.

I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

Show no love, cause love will get you killed.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

I have a romantic side. I do things.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

What I want to be is the best bad guy you've ever seen.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

Success is my drug of choice.

Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...