Drake Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.