Latest Lauryn Hill Quotes from Interviews

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• As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Long, Firsts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

  Lauryn Hill

  World, Should, Knows

  "Queen of Hip-Hop". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2010.

• You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

  Lauryn Hill

  Home, Space, Light

• Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

  Lauryn Hill

  Doors, Way, Mediocrity

  "Queen of Hip-Hop". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

  Lauryn Hill

  Should, Higher, Comfortable

  "Queen of Hip-Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, Constant, Don't Believe

• I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mean, Done, Littles

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Awards, Achievement

• Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

  Lauryn Hill

  Retirement, Life Is, Should

• The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

  Lauryn Hill

  Awards, Honor, Helpful

• If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Would Be, Facts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Encouragement, Thinking

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

  Lauryn Hill

  Couple, Sprung Up, Acting

• I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Important

• I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

  Lauryn Hill

  Practice, Long, Perfect

  "Lauryn Hill on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

  Lauryn Hill

  Abundance Of Love, Joy, Comfort

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

  Lauryn Hill

  Committed, Happens, Diligent

• I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

  Lauryn Hill

  Ambition, Love Is, Get Better

  "Lauryn Hill on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

  Lauryn Hill

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

  Lauryn Hill

  Reflection, Want, Helping

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Scottsdale, Arizona, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

  Lauryn Hill

  Focus, Style, Trying

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  Lauryn Hill

  War, Reading, Water

• I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Occupation, Firsts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

• Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

  Lauryn Hill

  Strong, Blessed, Giving

• I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Sustenance

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.