Best Lil’ Wayne Quotes on Life, Love and Success

These Lil Wayne quotes will have you pumped up and ready to spit your own game at 100.

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., otherwise known as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper and record executive who is commonly regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists of his generation.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wayne began his career in 1995 when he was signed by Cash Money Records.

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Following years of contractual disputes between the rapper and his recording label, Lil Wayne finally released his twelfth studio album, Tha Carter V, on September 28, 2018.

The long-awaited album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with the second-largest streaming week for an album.

According to Nielsen Music, Tha Carter V earned an incredible 433 million streams in just the United States and in just the first week when it dropped on streaming platforms. 

The enormous number makes complete one of the year’s most successful comebacks, after a long period that the rapper basically spent in the recording wilderness.

Lil Wayne has received many accolades including five Grammy Awards, 11 BET Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and eight NAACP Image Awards.

Wayne is also the CEO of his own label, Young Money Entertainment.

Here is a collection of some of our favorite Lil Wayne quotes.

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Best Lil’ Wayne Quotes Life and Success

1. “I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.” – Lil Wayne

2. “I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success. Thankfully, there’s no rehab for success.” – Lil Wayne

3. “I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.” – Lil Wayne

4. “Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.” – Lil Wayne

5. “Love me or hate me, I swear it won’t make or break me.” – Lil Wayne

6. “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like being sorry for being real.” – Lil Wayne

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7. “I don’t need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne

8. “I’m blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.” – Lil Wayne

9. “Hate is only a form love that hasn’t found a way to express itself logically.” – Lil Wayne

10. “We’re here to live. We’re here to do, we’re here to be.” – Lil Wayne

11. “Jail didn’t make me find God, He’s always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.” – Lil Wayne

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12. “I look at things as ‘Everything is meant to be.'” – Lil Wayne

13. “I go wherever my creativity takes me.” – Lil Wayne

14. “I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.” – Lil Wayne

15. “The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” – Lil Wayne

16. “I know the world is so cold and deceiving, but I keep my head up like my noise is bleeding.” – Lil Wayne

17. “Mirror on the wall, through my rise and fall, you’ve been my only friend.” – Lil Wayne

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18. “I got these haters, like “when will he stop? Maybe a minute after never, so set your clocks.” – Lil Wayne

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19. “I don’t think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live.” – Lil Wayne

20. “I know it’s an experience that I need to have if God’s putting me through it.” – Lil Wayne

21. “I’m not looking down, but I see no one above me!” – Lil Wayne

22. “I’m on the road to riches, it’s just a lil traffic.” – Lil Wayne

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23. “I’m a lion on redeem, inspired by the green. Never tired nor fatigued, never defiant to my team.” – Lil Wayne

24. “My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts.” – Lil Wayne

25. “They don’t know where I came from but they know where I’m going.”  – Lil Wayne

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26. “There’s strength in numbers but there’s honor over strength.”  –  Lil Wayne

27. “And I’ll be waiting for you, for you, for you
On the dark side of the moon.” –  Lil Wayne

28. “So if a nigga kill me, hope he mean it
I just hope I die for a reason”  –  Lil Wayne

29. “And if you happen to get there before me
Leave a message in the dust just for me
If I don’t see it, I’ll be waiting for you”  –  Lil Wayne

30. “They probably won’t miss me ’til they need me”  –  Lil Wayne

31. “The end of the world is coming soon, I’ma miss it”  –  Lil Wayne

32. “I hope I leave more of an impression on my kids
To be destined to have blessings to believe in, Lord”  –  Lil Wayne

33. “Had to swallow my pride, though, swear it tastes like spearmint”  –  Lil Wayne

34. “Man in the mirror, my hero
He helped me center my ego
When I think I’m bad like Michael
He bring me back down to Tito”  –  Lil Wayne

35. “I live and I learn, then die tryna teach ’em, Lord”  –  Lil Wayne

36. “The game ain’t easy, but it’s fair”  –  Lil Wayne

37. “The object in the mirror is more near than it appears, oh shit
And sometimes I fear who in the mirror, that nigga weird
He done died so many times but still here”  –  Lil Wayne

38. “We was such a team, we was chasin’ our dreams”  –  Lil Wayne

39. “Beat odds, never beat women
Keep an open mind, let ’em peek in it
Reach highs, never reach limits”  –  Lil Wayne

40. “I never really knew my dad good
But still grew up to be the big bad wolf”  –  Lil Wayne

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41. “I’ll find love again, I ain’t find it yet”  –  Lil Wayne

42. “Dear Life
What is my meaning? My reason?”  –  Lil Wayne

43. “Man in the mirror, my hero
He helped me see like a eagle
He helped me hear enemies cry wolf
Then he see me take off my sheep clothes”  –  Lil Wayne

44. “The dirt under your feet could be the grave you fill
You don’t know how dead you feel ’til you’re dead for real”  –  Lil Wayne

45. “Never come in second, make the most of your seconds” –  Lil Wayne

46. “Lookin’ in the mirror at the one that know me better” –  Lil Wayne

47. “Beat the odds like mosquitoes” –  Lil Wayne

48. “Take a good look at what you are lookin’ at
You never know when it’s your last look” –  Lil Wayne

49. “Don’t let the money come between us” –  Lil Wayne

50. “Blessings shower from the north side
From the brightest flower out the darkest skies
Love is blind but we caught eyes
It’s a bumpy road but a joyride” –  Lil Wayne

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51. “I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It’s gonna be hard to tell me I’m slipping.” – Lil Wayne

52. “I don’t like to stop. I believe you stop when you die.” – Lil Wayne

53. “I don’t look for signs. But when things happen, I say, ‘OK, something must be right.’ Or ‘OK, something must be wrong.’” – Lil Wayne

54. “I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.” – Lil Wayne

55. “Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.” – Lil Wayne

56. “Life is a beach and i am juss playing in the sand! :DD”― Lil Wayne

57. “Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress.” – Lil Wayne

58. “I do what I do and u do Wat u can do about it.”― Lil Wayne

59. “Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives!!”― Lil Wayne

60. “Be good, or be good at it.”― Lil Wayne

61. “I don’t want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.”― Lil Wayne

62. “Prepared for the worst, but still praying for the best.”― Lil Wayne

63. “You could love me or hate me
I swear it won’t make me or break me.
I’m goin where ever the money takes me.”― Lil Wayne

64. “Protect me from my friends
I can take care of my enemies.”― Lil Wayne

65. “I just always expect the best because I’m a competitor and if I’m competing, then obviously I’m trying to be better in everything.”― Lil Wayne

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Insightful Lil’ Wayne quotes

66. “You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That’s what Martin Luther King told me.” – Lil Wayne

67. “You can love me or hate me, I swear it won’t make me or break me.”― Lil Wayne

68. “Let me do me.” – Lil Wayne

69. “I don’t think you’re beautiful I think you’re beyond it.”― Lil Wayne

70. “My aim is just to make good music every single time.” – Lil Wayne

71. “I just feel out of this world sometimes.” – Lil Wayne

72. “One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.” – Lil Wayne

73. “I’ve been criticized for the things I chose and things I’ve chosen to do.” – Lil Wayne

74. “Where I come from, the block become your daddy.” – Lil Wayne

75. “I love to work.” – Lil Wayne

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76. “Don’t judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that’s about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It’s me against the world – that’s how I feel.” – Lil Wayne

77. “Just hope you’re heaven sent, and you’re hell proof.”― Lil Wayne

78. “Nothing scares me but God.” – Lil Wayne

79. “If I have a rap album I’m dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.” – Lil Wayne

80. “I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you’re going, someone’s supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.” – Lil Wayne

81. “As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.” – Lil Wayne

82. “I like being misunderstood.” – Lil Wayne

83. “I’m not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn’t have been born. Straight up.” – Lil Wayne

84. “I tried to pay attention but attention paid me.”― Lil Wayne

85. “I don’t take nothin’ from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I’m gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can’t do that, then I’ll just die.” – Lil Wayne

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86. “What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.” – Lil Wayne

87. “When a girl cries over a guy, she really loves him. When a guy cries over a girl, he will never love another girl like her.” – Lil Wayne

88. “Your gonna need a space shuttle or a ladder that’s forever to get on my level.” – Lil Wayne

89. “Take them shoes of your teeth and quit running your mouth.” – Lil Wayne

90. “Most of your don’t get the picture unless you got the flash on!” – Lil Wayne

91. “Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was. And when nobody else gave a damn I did.” – Lil Wayne

92. “I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.” – Lil Wayne

93. “Drag my name through the mud, i come out clean.” – Lil Wayne

94. “God can judge me, I don’t need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing’s my security.” – Lil Wayne

95. “I love weed so much I tried to marry juana.” – Lil Wayne

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96. “I’m a gangster, and gangsters don’t ask questions.” — Lil Wayne

97. “Life is a lot like skateboarding.” — Lil Wayne

98. “I believe in God and his son, Jesus.” — Lil Wayne

99. “Don’t make an opinion on me if you don’t know nothin’ about me.” — Lil Wayne

100. “Don’t judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel.” — Lil Wayne

101. “I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.” — Lil Wayne

102. “Get in line with the rest of them that’s about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It’s me against the world—that’s how I feel.” — Lil Wayne

103. “A lot of women don’t know how to love because there’s deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.” — Lil Wayne

104. “I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best.” — Lil Wayne

105. “When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.” — Lil Wayne

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106. “Everything gets betters with time, and time is forever.” – Lil Wayne

107. “The best way to not get your heart broken is to pretend you don’t have to one.” – Lil Wayne

108. “Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well, consider then lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.” – Lil Wayne

109. “I always do my rap from the outside, looking in. like I do my rap as if I’m looking at me, rap.” – Lil Wayne

110. “Prepared for the worst but still praying for the best.” – Lil Wayne

111. “Nobody gives you a chance; you gotta take chances.” – Lil Wayne

112. “The best things in life are unseen; that’s why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream.” – Lil Wayne

113. “I made something out of nothing, thanks for nothing.” – Lil Wayne

114. “I listen to her heartbeat cause it plays my favorite song.” – Lil Wayne

115. “My life is like a movie, and I do my own stunts.” – Lil Wayne

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September 20, 2022 5:00 AM EST