Kevin Gates Quotes: A Compilation of Wisdom on Life, Success, Love, and Music

In this exploration, we delve into some of the most impactful Kevin Gates quotes that can motivate you to lead your best life.

Kevin Gates transcends the typical rapper persona, revealing depths beyond his musical talents. He candidly discusses his battles with mental health, advocating for self-love and acceptance in our daily existence.

While his messages resonate powerfully, it’s his unfiltered authenticity that truly shines when he reflects on life. Here, we’ve compiled a collection of his thought-provoking quotes covering life, success, music, and love.

Let’s dive into this compilation of quotes from one of today’s most authentic voices in the rap scene!

Inspirational Kevin Gates Quotes About Life:

1. “True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and the mind.” ~ Kevin Gates
2. “In my life I’ve learned that comparison is the killer of all joy. Stop comparing your life to other people’s highlight films.” ~ Kevin Gates
3. “I always had music growing up and it was like my personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.” ~ Kevin Gates
4. “Some lessons are better lived than learned. Pain is the greatest motivator.” ~ Kevin Gates
5. “When you grow, your way of life changes. Everything changes. The things that were interesting at one point, they’re not as interesting now.” ~ Kevin Gates
6. “Even when it hurts, don’t surrender and don’t retreat. You gotta fight for you.” ~ Kevin Gates
7. “Don’t allow the things that have happened in your past to dictate your future.” ~ Kevin Gates
8. “Your friends won’t always agree with your vision. Even your family won’t always agree with your vision. That’s why the bravest thing you can do is believe in yourself.” ~ Kevin Gates
9. “If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.” ~ Kevin Gates
10. “Sometimes when you compromise who you are just to please others, you slowly feel yourself beginning to die inside.” ~ Kevin Gates
11. “I believe that you either learn fast or you die young.” ~ Kevin Gates
12. “When a man meets his mission, he and his mission become one.” ~ Kevin Gates
13. “If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.” ~ Kevin Gates
14. “Your body is an amazing instrument; it will tell you exactly what’s right and what’s wrong.” ~ Kevin Gates
15. “A lot of people don’t want to face themselves because it’s an act of valor to face yourself.” ~ Kevin Gates
16. “We all take losses in life; you’re measured by how you get back up after falling.” ~ Kevin Gates
17. “Freedom is you being free in your mind and your heart and your spirit. Being your authentic self is beautiful; that’s the greatest freedom there is.” ~ Kevin Gates
18. “Every day that I woke up with breath in my body, I believed that I could change my life.” ~ Kevin Gates
19. “I believe that the key to happiness is self-accountability. You have to hold yourself accountable to the best version of you.” ~ Kevin Gates
20. “In order to appreciate and understand peace, you have to go through and experience great pain.” ~ Kevin Gates
21. “The hardest thing to do in life is come from nothing and be greater than you were before.” ~ Kevin Gates

Deep Kevin Gates Quotes:

22. “When you stand for something, you’ve gotta stand for it all the way, not halfway.” ~ Kevin Gates

23. “With great wisdom comes great grief.” ~ Kevin Gates
24. “Anything lost can be found again, except for time wasted.” ~ Kevin Gates
25. “Great knowledge in the hands of a fool would be self-destruction.” ~ Kevin Gates
26. “When we adopt the ways of others, we suffer their same demise.” ~ Kevin Gates
27. “A lot of people can’t be alone with themselves. I can be alone; I don’t need to talk to nobody. I can figure out what I need to figure out on my own.” ~ Kevin Gates
28. “I consciously put positive energy into my body because the world beats us up with negativity all day long.” ~ Kevin Gates
29. “I had to learn how to kill my ego because I don’t ever want to put my ego before me.” ~ Kevin Gates
30. “Have you ever gone to sleep and woke up tired? That’s because your mind was never quiet; your mind never received true rest.” ~ Kevin Gates
31. “Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me, without a doubt.” ~ Kevin Gates
32. “Pain is the greatest motivator, and experience is the greatest teacher.” ~ Kevin Gates
33. “Through isolation is where we reach elevation.” ~ Kevin Gates
34. “I put my flaws front and center and the world accepted them, so I don’t have any flaws.” ~ Kevin Gates
35. “The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.” ~ Kevin Gates
36. “I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s by choice; those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t never been my focus.” ~ Kevin Gates
37. “I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. But I’m not alone, I think we all have this to some extent.” ~ Kevin Gates
38. “I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.” ~ Kevin Gates
39. “Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.” ~ Kevin Gates
40. “Life is about how we conduct ourselves. Two wrongs never make a right.” ~ Kevin Gates
41. “Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and in my feelings. I just like to share different states of the existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.” ~ Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates Quotes On Success & Hard Work:

42. “I adapt and adjust to whatever environment I’m in.” ~ Kevin Gates

43. “I don’t really like talking, I like to execute. I’m not a talking person, I’m an action person.” ~ Kevin Gates
44. “It ain’t where you start, it’s where you end up.” ~ Kevin Gates
45. “When you invest in something, when you hustle and grind for something, you have a different type of attachment to it.” ~ Kevin Gates
46. “Once you release the things that no longer serve you and you create space in your life, then you’ve created room for success.” ~ Kevin Gates
47. “Why accept failure when success is free?” ~ Kevin Gates
48. “I’m not allowing anything to distract me right now; I gotta focus on me.” ~ Kevin Gates

48. “My daily conversation consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom, sick and tired of struggle.” ~ Kevin Gates
49. “Don’t worry about it, just keep going hard and grinding because those who really love you will love you for who you are.” ~ Kevin Gates
50. “The days I don’t wanna go to the gym are always the days that I have my best workouts” ~ Kevin Gates
51. “My hustle is relentless. I’m not gonna stop. It took me a lot of losses to get where I’m at now.” ~ Kevin Gates
52. “Don’t get mad at me for being the best that I was created to be.” ~ Kevin Gates
53. “A vision without action is merely a dream. It’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.” ~ Kevin Gates
54. “If you keep grinding and keep taking losses, you’re gonna learn how to win one day. Trust the journey. Trust the process.” ~ Kevin Gates
55. “I wish they had a magic button, but they don’t. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you don’t grind, you don’t shine.” ~ Kevin Gates
56. “It’s not a race, it’s not a destination, it’s all about the journey of trying to get where you wanna go.” ~ Kevin Gates
57. “Never fold or break, that’s what it takes to be major.” ~ Kevin Gates
58. “My measure of success is me being able to do whatever I want to whenever I want to.” ~ Kevin Gates
59. “Whether it was good or bad, I always took full responsibility for my actions and that helped me be successful.” ~ Kevin Gates
60. “I don’t sleep much, I just work, work, and then work some more.” ~ Kevin Gates
61. “I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.” ~ Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates Quotes About Family:

63. “I always wanted a family.” ~ Kevin Gates

64. “I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for glory. I’m in the game to survive so that the people that I love can be straight.” ~ Kevin Gates
65. “When you’re in prison, you want to know that the people you care about are thinking about you.” ~ Kevin Gates
66. “Blood doesn’t make us related; love makes us related.” ~ Kevin Gates
67. “My life is a sacrifice but I don’t care for it. Because this sacrifice is for those who love me, not me.” ~ Kevin Gates
68. “My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.” ~ Kevin Gates
69. “I like being with my family. That’s my party.” ~ Kevin Gates
70. “To inform, to improve, to make better, and I believe that’s what my first daughter did to me, so I named my first album after my first daughter.” ~ Kevin Gates
71. “I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why other kids went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with children and the white picket fence because I never had that.” ~ Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates Quotes About Loyalty:

72. “Loyalty is a two way street. If you’re ridin’ with me I’m ridin’ with you.” ~ Kevin Gates

73. “I give you the utmost respect, but I also demand mine.” ~ Kevin Gates
74. “You have to be patient with a person when they are undergoing their healing process.” ~ Kevin Gates
75. “I may forgive you for what you did, but I’m not gonna forget what you did.” ~ Kevin Gates
76. “People betray you because it’s easier to violate a friend than it is a stranger.” ~ Kevin Gates
77. “Protecting your energy is not a crime. If I don’t like you, I’m going to stay away from you.” ~ Kevin Gates
78. “Loyalty is hard to find; trust is easy to lose.” ~ Kevin Gates
79. “The ones that hate you the most tend to be the people you know.” ~ Kevin Gates
80. “Everybody around you pretending that they are your partner, but let you have a problem they won’t even help you out.” ~ Kevin Gates
81. “Watch people daily and you will see their true colors.” ~ Kevin Gates
82. “The most loyal people don’t have too many friends because they have witnessed too many disloyal actions from people they thought were real.” ~ Kevin Gates
83. “I think being a skeptic is a beautiful thing because it makes you investigate. It makes you ask why people are doing what they’re doing.” ~ Kevin Gates
84. “I don’t judge people based on the inside. I respect the heart, integrity, and morals and principles of an individual.” ~ Kevin Gates
85. “I have a cult-life following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.” ~ Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates Quotes On Love:

86. “If my heart isn’t telling me to do it, then I’m not gonna do it.” ~ Kevin Gates

102. “I’m on a journey now of learning to love the stranger that was once myself.” ~ Kevin Gates
103. “It’s hard to be stuck between “I don’t wanna feel that type of hurt again” and “I wanna feel that type of love again.” ~ Kevin Gates
104. “When you truly love me, you accept me for who I am. Because who I’m not..I will never be.” ~ Kevin Gates
105. “It doesn’t matter how great of a person she is to you, it matters how great of a person she is for you.” ~ Kevin Gates
106. “If I hurt your feelings I’m gonna do it with pure intentions. I love you but I love me more.” ~ Kevin Gates
107. “Don’t lose your mind trying to wait for people to come to their senses.” ~ Kevin Gates
108. “Love is a battlefield, not a one night stand.” ~ Kevin Gates
109. “Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.” ~ Kevin Gates
110. “When you start doing things for you, then you can make someone else happy because you’re happy.” ~ Kevin Gates
111. “When you follow your heart, you always win.” ~ Kevin Gates
112. “You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.” ~ Kevin Gates
113. “When you’re always living to please others, you’re gonna be in a constant state of depression. You’ve gotta love yourself and put yourself first.” ~ Kevin Gates
114. “When people start loving themselves and each other, the world changes.” ~ Kevin Gates
115. “You don’t know pain until you’ve sat back and asked God to heal your heart.” ~ Kevin Gates
116. “My heart’s bigger than my body, that’s why I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is my music.” ~ Kevin Gates
117. “I could care less about the particular, I just like to make music.” ~ Kevin Gates
118. “I put my heart and my soul into my music and people just gravitate towards it because I make emotion-based music.” ~ Kevin Gates
119. “Rap really saved my life, and it also provided me with an outlet to mentor young people on the same mission.” ~ Kevin Gates
120. “It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.” ~ Kevin Gates
121. “What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine went through, I rap about all of it.” ~ Kevin Gates
122. “Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.” ~ Kevin Gates
123. “I put my heart and my soul into my music and people just gravitate towards it because I make emotion-based music.” ~ Kevin Gates
124. “I could care less about the particular, I just like to make music.” ~ Kevin Gates
125. “I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is my music.” ~ Kevin Gates

Final Thoughts:

Kevin Gates is not just a rapper; he’s a mission-driven individual aiming to inspire and make a positive impact on the world. His raw, emotional approach to music and life resonates with many, encouraging self-acceptance, positivity, and relentless pursuit of dreams.

May his words serve as a reminder that, no matter the challenges, you possess the strength to overcome them.