Top 83 Eminem quotes about motivation

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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.

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Eminem is among the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of over 220 million records.

He is credited with popularizing hip hop in Middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time.

After his debut album Infinite (1996) and the extended play Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP.

His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002), were worldwide successes and were both nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

He released the US number one albums The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), Revival (2017), Kamikaze (2018) and Music to Be Murdered By (2020).

Billboard named him the “Artist of the Decade (2000–2009)”.

He has won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy Award and an MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award.

Here are the top 83 Eminem quotes about motivation :

“There’s no limit on how far I would go, no boundaries, no lengths.”–Eminem

“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”–Eminem

“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”–Eminem

“We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.”–Eminem

“I just can’t sit back and wallow, in my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I’ll be one tough act to follow.”–Eminem

“You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.”–Eminem

“I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.”–Eminem

“Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!”–Eminem

“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.”–Eminem

“Don’t ever try to judge me dude, you don’t know what the f**k I’ve been through.”–Eminem

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“I’m standing up, I’mma face my demons, I’m manning up, I’mma hold my ground.”–Eminem

“You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.”–Eminem

“You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.”–Eminem

“Sometimes you just gotta let s*** go and say ‘To hell with it’ and move on.”–Eminem

“Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get f****d, just stay true to you.”–Eminem

“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”–Eminem

“Be proud of who you are.”–Eminem

“In my mind I’ma fighter, my heart’s a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”–Eminem

“You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s*** out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse.”–Eminem

“Nobody knows me I’m cold, walk down this road all alone. It’s no one’s fault but my own, it’s the path I’ve chosen to go.”–Eminem

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“Success is my only option, failure’s not.”–Eminem

“Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.”–Eminem

“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”–Eminem

“If I could take it all back now, I wouldn’t. I would have done more s*** people said I shouldn’t.–Eminem

“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’.”–Eminem

“I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.”–Eminem

“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”–Eminem

“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.”–Eminem

“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”–Eminem

“To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.”–Eminem

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“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”–Eminem

“I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.”–Eminem

“Love is just a word, but you bring it’s definition.”–Eminem

“Straighten up little soldier, stiffen up that upper lip. What are you crying about? You got me.”–Eminem

“Yeah, it’s been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one. Now some of you might still be in that place. If you’re trying to get out, just follow me, I’ll get you there.”–Eminem

“The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.”–Eminem

“When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.” – Eminem

“A normal life is boring.”–Eminem

“You know, not to sound corny or nuthin’, but I felt like a fighter comin’ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.”–Eminem

“I started learning how to not be so angry about things, learning how to count my f—ing blessings instead. By doing that, I’ve become a happier person, instead of all this self-loathing”–Eminem

“And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are.”–Eminem

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“They can trigger me. But they’ll never figure me out.”–Eminem

“Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter.”–Eminem

“Have you ever loved someone so much you’d give an arm for? Not the expression. No, literally give an arm for!”–Eminem

“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.”–Eminem

“There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.”–Eminem

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“From the beginning, it wasn’t about the ends. It was about busting raps and standing for something.”–Eminem

“I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”–Eminem

“I’d do whatever it takes, when I’m with you I get the shakes. My body aches when I ain’t with you I have zero strength.”–Eminem

“I’m supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure. Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders, I ain’t even supposed to show it, my crew ain’t supposed to know it.”–Eminem

“Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.”–Eminem

“If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”–Eminem

“I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.”–Eminem

“I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”–Eminem

“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”–Eminem

“For anyone who’s ever been through s**t in their lives, ’til they sit and they cry at night, wishin’ they’d die, ’til they throw on a rap record and they sit and they vibe.”–Eminem

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“Maybe one day we’ll all wake up and this will just be a dream.”–Eminem

“I don’t do ‘black music,’ I don’t do ‘white music’…I make fight music, for high school kids.”–Eminem

”I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.”–Eminem

“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.”–Eminem

“It happens all the time. They take your heart and steal your life. And it’s as though you feel you’ve died ’cause you’ve been killed inside. But yet you’re still alive, which means you will survive.”–Eminem

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“I was a poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”–Eminem

“The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.”–Eminem

“You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay ’em, But you won’t take the sting out these words before I say ’em”–Eminem

“And I am, whatever you say I am. If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?”–Eminem

“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.”–Eminem

“There is no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that I can’t learn how to fly.”–Eminem

“I act like sh*t don’t phase me, inside it drives me crazy. My insecurities could eat me alive.”–Eminem

“Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.”–Eminem

”Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.”–Eminem

“If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.”–Eminem

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“That’s why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.”–Eminem

“Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bulls**t hands we’re dealt. We’ve gotta take these cards ourselves and flip them don’t expect no help.”–Eminem

“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.”–Eminem

“Just promise you’ll think of me, every time you look up in the sky and see a star.”–Eminem

“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”–Eminem

“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”–Eminem

“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.”–Eminem

“You better lose yourself in the music. The moment, you own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.”–Eminem

“There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.”–Eminem