T.I.
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.Collection: Hip Hop
Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.Collection: Speak
Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.Collection: Emotion
Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you’re celebrating?Collection: Party
Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.Collection: Character
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.Collection: Inspirational
God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.Collection: Heaven
The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?Collection: Together
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.Collection: Winning
If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.Collection: Hustle
You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.Collection: Environment
I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.Collection: Mean
Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.Collection: Hate
Let the losers worry about losin.Collection: Worry
Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.Collection: Heart
Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optionalCollection: Illogical
We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.Collection: Abundance
Nobody is gonna love you like you.Collection: Love You
You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom.Collection: Gone
If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.Collection: Devalue
Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.Collection: Doubt
I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.Collection: People
I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I standCollection: Running
It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.Collection: Elements
I think you have to drop an album to truly see the effects of your following.Collection: Thinking
(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.Collection: Hot Headed
People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.Collection: People
As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.Collection: Kings
It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't writeCollection: Nice
Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly like you. No one group of people can righteously rule the world. There will be people who differ in opinion, and even in that difference of opinion, we must respect each other.Collection: Christian
Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.Collection: Giving
As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].Collection: Long
I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.Collection: Rapper
I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.Collection: Thinking
MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.-one of the world's greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life.Collection: Artist
You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.Collection: Moving
I can't really see myself as an artist.Collection: Artist
I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.Collection: Thinking
All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.Collection: Effort
I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.Collection: Thinking
If you are a true fan, you're a fan for one of two reasons. You either support what I do or you support me as a person. If you support what I do, the quality of work speaks for itself. If you support me as a person, my personal and political views won't alienate you. If you find a way to be turned off, that means you were never a fan in the first place. You were just riding the wave.Collection: Mean
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.Collection: Children
We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities.Collection: Community
Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.Collection: Artist
We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.Collection: Children
Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.Collection: Skating
I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.Collection: Speak