Quotes from Kevin Hart

The trouble is so many people run around avoiding things their entire lives. It's just too uncomfortable for them to look in the mirror at the roughest and darkest parts of themselves. Or they're terrified of spending five seconds looking bad and saying, "You know what, I fucked up. This is on me. I didn't do this or think about that, and so this happened. But here's what I'm going to do to help, and here's what I'm going to do next time.

But at times, life is random if not downright stupid

Kids can say anything in a mocking, singsong voice, and make it sound uncool. "You have ears. Nyah-nyah-na-nyah-nyah, you have eee-ars and they're on the side of your fay-ace!

And you take any consequences on the chin. You shoulder them because you know nothing can make you buckle. What people don't realize is that discomfort is temporary.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don't appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.

Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Because no matter how low you go and how lost you feel, there is always tomorrow. And tomorrow just may be the day when you get lifted up and find your way.

These are challenging times. Only the strong survive. And by the strong, I mean people with a strong enough mindset to make it through this particular place that we're in as a society. Because we're taking steps backward. We really are going backward.

The only path that leads to the ultimate you—because beyond goals, that's really what we're talking about—is the path you choose yourself. Nobody is in charge of you but you.

You have to risk negativity, risk banishment, risk hatred to have a life worth living.

Anyone can do this if they really understand the true meaning behind life. There's a start and there's an end. We all start in the same place. Then we get older and it ends. All of the stuff that happens in the middle, for those of us lucky enough to have one—it's all helping us to basically be a fucking great example to those who are coming after us. It's all education. It's all knowledge. It's all wisdom.

Deciding to do something and going past whatever the goal was that you set is a major mental achievement. You get to feel proud of yourself for completing something. You feel good for successfully controlling yourself and doing something positive.

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

I didn't want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I've been known to preach.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.