80+ Kim Namjoon Quotes That Motivate You to Believe In Yourself

BTS Namjoon Quotes

Let's hear some Kim Namjoon quotes as the leader of BTS.

• "I’m Kim Nam Jun, RM of BTS. I’m a hip-hop idol and an artist from a small town in Korea. Like most people, I made many mistakes in my life. I have many faults and I have many fears, but I am going to embrace myself as hard as I can, and I’m starting to love myself, little by little.

• "Our fans have become a major part of this campaign with their action and enthusiasm. We truly have the best fans in the world!"

• "I would look up at the night sky in wonder and dream the dreams of a boy. I used to imagine that I was a superhero, saving the world."

• “If you can't respect, don't even open your mouth.”

• “Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”

• “I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.”

• “No one is born ugly, we're just born in a judgemental society.”

• “Why is there no opposite word of loneliness? Could it be because people, until they die, have no moments of not being lonely?”

• “So, let’s all take one more step. We have learned to love ourselves, so now I urge you to speak yourself.
  I would like to ask all of you. What is your name? What excites you and makes your heart beat?
  Tell me your story. I want to hear your voice, and I want to hear your conviction. No matter who you are, where you’re from, your skin colour, gender identity: speak yourself.
  Find your name, find your voice by speaking yourself.”
  

• “Peaches and cream
  Sweeter than sweet
  Chocolate cheeks
  And chocolate wings
  But your wings are wings of the devil
  In front of your sweet is bitter bitter”
  

• “Thank you for accepting us. The 7 boys from Korea who sing in Korean.”

• “Even when the world ends, we need cotton-candy makers.”

• “I know they talk like you're too naive ~ you're too young but eventually fools change the world.”

Namjoon Inspirational Quotes

Some of these Kim Namjoon quotes can inspire you.

• “Doing my best in the things that are in front of me is the best way that I can answer the question of my existence.”

• “I hope you know your limits well, but don’t stay within those limits. Overcome the limits each day."

• "Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast."

• "They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness."

• "Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds."

• "I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration."

• "No sleep makes a human into another human."

• "If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that."

• "In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me."

• "We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides."

• "BTS fans - the 'ARMY' - tell us about their feelings, failures, passions, and struggles all the time."

• "When we're talking about our title tracks, 'DNA' is about the expression of a young, passionate love."

• "It's not easy to run a social media account over a long period of time, but we love communicating with our fans every day and night."

• "Came from a song that I made from, like, 2012 - there was some phrase like 'Rap Monster', and I just, I thought it was so cool. But as I grow up, and as I came to America, I think it felt like too much. So I just abbreviated it to 'RM', and it could symbolize many things. It could have more spectrums to it."

• "I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard."

• "It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch 'Friends.' I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word."

• "I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!"

• "I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me."

• "I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name."

• "I'm always ready to be challenged. Like, 'Wings: Outro,' it was hip-house. That was the first time I'd ever listened to that genre... but I liked it."

• "If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first."

• "When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self."

• "We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate."

Quotes by Kim Namjoon

More Kim Namjoon quotes are here.

• My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student."

• "I have no driver's license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That's what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free."

• "I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that."

• "I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us."

• "When I perform my role well, I feel proud."

• "Music really transcends languages, and it means so much."

• "Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going."

• "Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us."

• "It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time."

• "We try to make our own BTS context. Maybe it's risky to bring some inspiration from novels from so long ago, but I think it paid off more. It comes through like a gift box for our fans. That's something you can't find easily from American artists."

• "I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap."

• "When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives."

• "I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one."

• "It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed."

• "We are so lucky because all our fans from around the world are great. We love all our fans from everywhere, and they want us to visit them. We will try! They are really the best fans we could wish for."

• "J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group."

• "I think we're always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut."

• "I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example."

So, from all of these Kim Namjoon quotes, which one touches your heart the most? Or maybe all of them? But, we know for sure that RM is the best leader in the world!