Common

Hip Hop Rapper Actor American Born 1972 (age 54)

Conscious rapper whose poetic lyrics addressed social issues and relationships.

371 quotes

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself."
Motivation
"If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Adventure
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Wisdom
"The measure of your life will not be in its length, but in its depth."
Life
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
Peace
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."
Family
"The only true failure is the failure to try."
Perseverance
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Strength
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
Hope
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
Philosophy
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Love
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Wisdom
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but that we wait so long to begin it."
Life
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
Happiness
"The wound is the place where Light enters you."
Hope
"Let your light shine so brightly that others can see their way out of the dark."
Inspiration
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Freedom
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Kindness
"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
Gratitude
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Time
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy
"To thine own self be true."
Truth
"The only way out is through."
Perseverance
"We cannot selectively numb emotions."
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
War
"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Courage
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Perseverance
"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
Love
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Literature