Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eminem Quotes
FriendshipPerseverancePovertyStereotypesUpbringing Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
IdentityPassionPurposeTalent Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
All or NothingIntensitySelf-awareness I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
AllurementFameLifestyleSocial ExpectationsStruggle You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
Innocence When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
AuthenticityIndividualismIntegritySelf-Expression I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
EmpathyEqualityRaceSelf WorthUnderstanding Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Inner StrengthOvercoming NegativityPersonal GrowthResilienceSelf-awareness I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Financial ResponsibilityForesightWisdom I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
CreativityExpressionIntuitionMusicSpontaneity The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
AdaptabilityProblem SolvingResilience Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
ChallengeDisappointmentDreamReality I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
LonelinessSelf-ImageUnhealthy HabitsWeight I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.
AuthenticityHonestyOriginResilience I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
EntertainmentHumorPositivity Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
BetrayalStrengthVigilance Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Life ExperiencesMusicReflectionSelf-Expression I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
Personal GrowthRedemptionSelf ReflectionTransformation It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
External PerceptionHumilityInfluenceSelf-Perception I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.
AuthenticityDirectnessHonestySelf-Expression My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Breaking BoundariesCreativityFreedomOpportunityPersonal Achievement I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
CreativityInspirationSpontaneityWriting Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.