Nipsey Hussle Quotes About Love, Life, and Success

Nipsey Hussle was an American rapper who was gunned down in front of his Marathon Clothing Store in Los Angeles in March 2019. He was 33.

Hussle was a father of two children.

He independently released his first mixtape, Slauson Boy Volume 1, in December 2005. 

His debut studio album, Victory Lap, was released on February 16, 2018, via Atlantic Records and All Money In No Money Out.

List of 44 Nipsey Hussle Quotes About Love, Life, and Success:

#1 ”A speaker of truth has no friends.”

#2 ”Don’t let your past create your future. Everyone can change.”

#3 ”We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.”

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#4 ”The best thing you can do for a person is to inspire them. That’s the best currency you can offer: inspiration.”

#5 ”Before rap, my last name was my lifestyle, and when I visualize success, it looked like right now.”

#6 ”Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.”

#7 ”I’m more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.”

#8 ”Premature certainty is the enemy of truth.”

#9 ”I was raised different because even if you wish me the worst Ima still wish you the best.”

#10 ”Anytime I done set my sight on something that seemed way outlandish, it always come back exactly how I seen it.”

#11 ”Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.”

#12 ”Success to me is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through.”

#13 ”Having strong enemies is a blessing.”

#14 ”When my hope was low, I found life within. I know its ups and downs so every loss I took I knew to strike again.”

#15 ”When your intentions are pure you don’t lose anyone, they lose you.”

#16 ”I knew I wanted to work for myself when I was about eleven.”

#17 ”Try to have more faith and less fear, try to express it to your peers, I’m talking about dreams.”

#18 ”At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.”

#19 ”The company you keep has a large influence on the situations you bring to yourself.”

#20 ”Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.”

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#21 ”Be your own biggest fan, your own biggest believer, and put it on your back and carry the weight.”

#22 ”If you start small and build on what you have, you can continue to multiply that into something greater.”

#23 ”Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end.”

#24 ”As human beings, everybody has a natural gift and a natural passion.”

#25 ”Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you are. You weren’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.”

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

#27 ”You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.”

#28 ”Be truthful with yourself and other people, and try your best to make decisions outside of your ego.”

#29 ”You may not always have the necessary tools and resources, but you always have something.”

#30 ”Most the time, when it rains it starts pouring, but how we grind it makes the weather change for us.”

#31 ”I know in my heart that it’s a higher power and a higher value to what we can do.”

#32 ”My presence is positive. My presence is law of attraction. Mind over matter. That’s really the fabric of my creativity.” (Genius)

#33 ”How long should I stay dedicated? How long ’til opportunity meet preparation?”

#34 ”Don’t waste your time. It doesn’t make you rich.”

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#35 ”I am an anomaly in my space. The way I exist is unique.”

#36 ”Define who you are and what you are, and be clear on that. Meditate on that and then, live and die by that.”

#37 ”Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.” (Forbes)

#38 ”Be a man of your word, do what you say you’re gonna do, respect people the way you would like to be respected.”

#39 ”One of the most important things to know is when it’s over. Even with a stock, with a business, whatever.” (Complex)

#40 ”The most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing, it’s not gonna work.”

#41 ”I’m about seeing long term, seeing a vision, understanding nothing really worthwhile happens overnight.”

#42 ”Don’t expect from others. Put in your own work.”

#43 ”Instead of trying to build a brick wall, lay a brick everyday.”

#44 ”Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.”

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