Lil' Kim Quotes

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

Even if you're the greatest of all time, people are not just going to give it to you. It's a great lesson.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Everyone wants to be successful. What I've learned is how do you determine what that is?

I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

You grow when there are trophies in your trophy cabinet. I hope to achieve that here in Naples.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.

I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.

The sky is the limit when you work hard.