Kevin Hart Quotes

I DON’T have EX’s! I have Y’s. Like ‘Y the hell did I date you?!’ -Kevin Hart

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

i gotta stop saying "how stupid could you be?" I'm beginning to feel like people are taking as a challenge

How you handle rejection is very similar to how you’ll handle success. If you’re strong enough to handle rejection without taking it personally, without holding a grudge, and without losing your passion and drive, then you’ll be strong enough to reap the rewards. But if you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

There is no need to seek external approval when you already have internal approval.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like ! It was born 15 minutes ago it looks like a potato.

If you're too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you're too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones.

females will argue with you for 30 minutes then be like , "I aint even gonna argue with you!

He could be shorter than Kevin Hart and look like Flavor Flav.

You are somebody. You matter. And no one is allowed to take away your right to your property, your right to your safety, or your right to be yourself. Those are things that should be defended.

It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.

You need a teacher, because those who can’t do, teach. So if you wanna learn something, go to someone who can’t do it. Dammit, I think I wrote this one wrong.

when you truly love someone, you will be there every second they need you to! no matter what they are doing or what they want to be doing

You are already in your experience. So you can either resent and resist it, and make it that much less enjoyable, or you can accept it and find something positive in it.

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.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I chose not to lose my mom, and instead to gain an angel. In my mind, my heart, and my life, she is still completely present to this day -- and as wise, compassionate and stubborn as ever

Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter. It determines whether it’s comedy or tragedy, fairy tale or horror story, rags-to-riches or riches-to-rags. You can’t control the events that happen to you, but you can control your interpretation of them. So why not choose the story that serves your life the best?

If someone else is putting out negativity, then maneuver around them like you would a puddle on the ground. If you respond with negativity, you will only get dragged into the mud. It is a talent to stay positive and avoid negativity in the face of a sometimes cruel, unfair, and indifferent world. Cultivate that talent. It's the secret to living a happy life.

Can you fail and still be strong, Can you not fit in and accept yourself, Can you lose everything and still keep searching, Can you be in the dark and still believe in the light.

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I chose laughter.

One of the key factors for success—beyond work, talent, timing, relationships, and all the other qualities I’ve mentioned—is the glue that holds all of these together: commitment. What is commitment? Here’s what it means to me: keeping the promises you make to yourself and to others.

if you step into the life of someone you envy for just a day, you’ll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they’re usually worse than yours. Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

There is just one thing that tomorrow demands of you to make this happen: that you never stop believing in your power to create a better day.

She started asking us for cocaine. I explained that drugs weren’t our thing, unless she was looking for Tylenol, in which case we went Extra Strength

In the words of that great comedic philosopher Kevin Hart, “We gon’ learn today!

If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. And if you grow discouraged and give up when things get rough, you’ll miss out on your best possible destiny. So the secret is to be excited about what is in your power to control, be accepting of what’s not in your power to control, and then move with certainty into an uncertain future.

Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter. It determines whether it’s comedy or tragedy, fairy tale or horror story, rags-to-riches or riches-to-rags

If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. And if you grow discouraged and give up when things get rough, you'll miss out on your best possible destiny. So the secret is to be excited about what is in your power to control, be accepting of what's not in your power to control, and then move with certainty into an uncertain future.

My future was out there. It was just waiting for me to find it. And the challenge was not to give up on myself just because it seemed like everyone else was pulling ahead of me—and leaving me further and further behind in the months that followed. That’s the test that each of us faces in life: Can you fail and still be strong? Can you not fit in and still accept yourself? Can you lose everything and still keep searching? Can you be in the dark and still believe in the light?

Many people will tell you to ignore these doubters. Others will tell you to listen and then prove them wrong, which worked for me in those first shows. But I’m going to recommend something better that I learned much later: Don’t invite them into the conversation. You already know what you want to dedicate yourself to, so you don’t need to ask for their approval. There’s no need to seek external approval when you already have internal approval.

It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone else has it much better. But if you step into the life of someone you envy for just a day, you'll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they're usually worse than yours. Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

People call this the elusive obvious: It’s right there in front of your face, so close that everyone can see it but you.

It's spoken with a shoulder shrug, a side-to-side of the head, and roll of the eyes. It means: "I can't even fathom your reality, but I've decided to just accept it and move on.

There's a giant gap between what you imagine yourself doing and what you're capable of doing and it hurts pretty bad when you fall into that gap

I'm chasing after that Holy Shit Effect.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lightning and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at that particular time—and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward. You can be angry at the bad luck that you got struck or grateful for the good luck that you survived.

But I’ve learned that I’m not the only person in the world who’s making plans. Everyone is reaching for what they believe is a better future, and not all of those futures are in alignment. Some people’s plans conflict directly with the plans of others:

I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own greatness, no one else will. You’re limited only by your doubts, your fears, and your desire to fit in rather than stand out. And there’s room in this world for all of us to stand out.

Can you fail and still be strong, Can you not fit in and accept yourself, Can you lose everything and still keep searching, Can you be in the dark and still believe in the light.

In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.

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.

You matter. And no one is allowed to take away your right to your property, your right to your safety, or your right to be yourself. Those are things that should be defended.

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.

My dad hung his head and accepted his fate. He walked apologetically into the bedroom, and got cussed out royally. Usually, he could say “I love you” to calm her down.

If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. And if you grow discouraged and give up when things get rough, you’ll miss out on your best possible destiny. So the secret is to be excited about what is in your power to control, be accepting of what’s not in your power to control, and then move with certainty into an uncertain future

Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) I’m watching the UCLA & FLORIDA game in amazement because I performed in the same arena where they are playing now & sold out #GodisGood Hey, let’s not make this about you, eh? Also, if God is real and we have the same one, and a big priority for him is making sure you sell out a show at a college basketball arena, then I want out.

This way, when your best possible future comes looking for you—almost always at a time and in a place you least expect it—you will be able to recognize its face and respond to its call.

It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone else has it much better. But if you step into the life of someone you envy for a day, you'll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they're usually worse than yours. because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

If life is a struggle, then struggle. If you get rejected, get rejected again. If your dreams are smashed, keep dreaming. Just keep your eyes on the prize—and always remember that you have to fail to win.

Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it? To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads: My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!

most out of this book, there are three important words you’re going to need to know and understand. The first word is: “Huh?” It’s pronounced short and sharp, as if someone just hit you in the stomach. Typically,

that had little to do with the real world. I felt like school, and this way of learning—cramming random knowledge into my head and then trying to retain it long enough to pass a test or two about it—wasn’t for me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That’s the biggest difference between the amateur and the professional, between the wannabe and the star, between the dabbler and the expert. The unsuccessful get halfway to the finish line, then turn around. The successful get halfway, then keep going. Both run the same distance, but only one makes it to the finish line. To win the race, then, having talent, speed, and endurance help, but those things are nothing without commitment. To commit successfully, you don’t have to always believe in yourself—because, let’s face it, we all have our doubts at times. But you do have to believe in something higher than yourself: your purpose. If you believe in your purpose, you can survive the most challenging times, because God or destiny or your will—or whatever you prefer to believe in—is on your side. If you know it’s your purpose to win the race, then you’re not going to turn around, because there is no other option but to win.

Confidence is just entitlement. Entitlement has gotten a bad rap because it’s used almost exclusively for the useless children of the rich, reality TV stars, and Conrad Hilton Jr., who gets kicked off an airplane for smoking pot in the lavatory and calling people peasants or whatever. But entitlement in and of itself isn’t so bad. Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you’d better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it? To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads: My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work! HARD

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.

The gravity of this world will pull you toward a negative mindset 99 percent of the time. The constant static of negativity is deafening. But it’s completely fucking useless. It’s just noise. It nurtures self-doubt, judgment, and comparison. But positivity is creative. It’s generative. It’s beautiful. It’s inspiring. Positivity uplifts and encourages. Positivity creates options and possibility. Positivity is movement. Positivity makes room for hope. Positivity is freedom.

Think about people who changed the world, like Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Mother Teresa. Now search their name along with the word scandal, and see what comes up. Now imagine: If you had the whole world shouting those things at you, whether or not you did them, could you still keep your mental strong, decide to press forward, and succeed on an even bigger scale? Because here’s a secret: Most people hate change. Most people don’t like something new. So if you want to make an impact, you will have to deal with negativity and people exposing the worst things about you. And somehow, you have to take the appropriate steps to surthrive and move forward on your mission. Yeah, I made that word up. Not sure if I like it yet. But I’m risking negativity. Remember these three words: Mindset. Is. Everything.

Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

Your friends may love you, but the problem is that they love you as you are. You play a role in their lives that they've gotten used to, so they don't always want you to change. Most of them think their job is to keep you humble and in your place.

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

Control. I just wanted control. When I had it, I felt like I could breathe. Like everything was going to be okay. And when I didn’t have it, I was filled with anxiety, feeling like every little thing could go wrong.

It’s only when we trust each other, rely on each other, and give each other our best instead of saving it for ourselves that we can experience the full banquet of life. We might even experience heaven on earth.

If you’re always trying to avoid discomfort and temporary pain, then you’re also probably avoiding the path that will lead to your greatest happiness.

The same thing happens when you quit avoiding what freaks you out. When you try something new, and start stepping into your fears a little bit, suddenly the playing field of life becomes ten times bigger. You’re exposed to so many more opportunities. By taking a chance on losing, you also get the opportunity to win. And most of the time, you probably will. After all, success is in getting it done, not in what other people think. That’s something that, once the monster leaves, you learn you can’t control.

It’s only when we trust each other, rely on each other, and give each other our best instead of saving it for ourselves that we can experience the full banquet of life.

your need to control didn’t make things any safer. It only made them smaller. It will ultimately shrink everything, from your joy to your relationships to your life span.

When everybody’s trying to feed themselves, and get theirs, they end up starving. They don’t get anywhere. They miss the point. It’s only when we trust each other, rely on each other, and give each other our best instead of saving it for ourselves that we can experience the full banquet of life. We might even experience heaven on earth.

The more you chase comfort, the more unhappy you become. Because happiness isn't about being comfortable; it's about growing and improving. And by nature, growing is not comfortable.

As you grow up, they grow up with you. They get born in a moment, and start off crawling. They’re kinda cute then. Other people like to pet them. People might think of them affectionately as the little quirks of your personality. Then they learn to walk. Then they start running. Then they go to the gym and start doing squats and bench presses and pull-ups. They get faster and stronger and swole. Until, one day, they hit a tipping point, and the monsters become more powerful than you.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. —Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

if you don’t have your shit together, it’s that very lack of togetherness that becomes your sentence to pain and suffering.

when you have to sit with the consequences of your actions, and you really don’t want to live with them, you almost have no choice but to gain a new perspective and become a different person.

doing it wrong, you never give them a chance to do it right. This

Note that when we are very young and can’t flee physically, we flee in our minds, and that’s called the “freeze response.” So if your monster controls more on the inside, and makes you run away or shut down, that can happen when you had a parent who could explode and get real mad without warning. Or maybe they were dominant, inflexible, or narcissistic, and they always got heated or wanted to get their way and be right. This parent was out of control with control. And when you’re real small, fighting back in these situations usually isn’t a smart idea. That might just make the problem worse. So, to avoid getting blowback and the consequences that come with it, the best control strategy was to start walking on eggshells. You kept them and any situation from getting out of hand by shutting up and going with the flow.

Self-awareness plus self-control equals the best possible life you could ever hope for.

when you use avoidance as protection, you’re strapping huge limitations on yourself and what’s possible in your life. You may never get what you want because you’re a pushover. There’s so much you never take a chance on, because it involves even the smallest amount of risk. Your dreams might sit on the shelf, collecting dust. You miss out on so many amazing things you could have done and people you could have met. You miss out on the exhilarating adventure that is life, because you were busy clinging to safety and certainty.

The more you chase comfort, the more unhappy you become. Because happiness isn’t about being comfortable; it’s about growing and improving. And by nature, growing is not comfortable.

Any form of control, at the end of the day, is really just protection. And you get protective because you’re afraid of something bad happening. And the reason you’re afraid of something bad happening again is because you don’t trust yourself or others to handle a situation.

If somebody else starts pushing and arguing for their way, even though you might disagree, you get quiet or let yourself get pushed over, so they can have it their way. That’s because a piece of you is afraid of facing some intensity and having somebody get mad at you. So you end up controlling what everyone thinks of you by not being authentic.

Just because people aren’t like you doesn’t mean they’re not capable. Because there’s only one you. There are not going to be more versions of you. You can’t judge others by comparing them to yourself. You have to let people show you what they’re capable of. Because when you’re so worried about people doing it wrong, you never give them a chance to do it right. This monster doesn’t allow you to empower others because it’s too busy trying to control them.

One of the most common misconceptions is that happiness equals pleasure.

Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a “failure,” he called them “temporary defeats.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Instead of putting my anxiety on my family and the people I work with, if I take responsibility and let go of it, then I’ll be freed up to give everyone trust. And when I give trust instead of anxiety, it makes both our worlds more harmonious.

The question at all times is: How are you helping to make sure this movie is amazing? The best it can be. Are you making your fellow actors and actresses better? Is that your intention?

Because here’s a secret: Most people hate change. Most people don’t like something new. So if you want to make an impact, you will have to deal with negativity and people exposing the worst things about you. And somehow, you have to take the appropriate steps to surthrive and move forward on your mission. Yeah, I made that word up. Not sure if I like it yet. But I’m risking negativity. Remember these three words: Mindset. Is. Everything.

But we have so many misconceptions about what happiness is. One of the most common misconceptions is that happiness equals pleasure. Doing and having the things that make you feel nice and comfortable in the moment. The trouble with that is a lot of what makes you feel nice in the moment doesn’t add up to much in the bigger picture. And without self-control, you can quickly get lost in monsterlike behavior that you didn’t expect to get lost in.

There’s a way out for you personally. And you can lead by example. Let’s put you in a position to celebrate the positive. It’s easy to get trapped talking about what’s bad, but after today, we are no longer going to choose easy. We are going to decide to celebrate the positive. Together, let’s change the narrative and talk about what’s good.