Tupac Shakur Quotes

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

Walls have never stopped people from trying to better their lives.

It's truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

In life, you have ups and downs, but you should never give up. You should always try to get ahead.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.

Sometimes, we find what we want by also finding out what you don't want. All of that is trial and error. Once you're in that pit, the trial and error is important. It's up to us; we've got to keep moving forward.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

At Atletico, I always played with older players, sometimes out of position. I'd keep going back until I beat them.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.