Lupe Fiasco Quotes

Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Every time something bad happens to me, I don't ask the question, 'Why did it happen to me?' The question I ask is, 'Why did it happen for me?'

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

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.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around.