Wale Quotes

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I'll probably be the same. I'll still think I'm not the greatest singer I can be.

I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

I like pushing myself.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

I love to push myself.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

I'm always trying to improve.

I am obsessed with improving.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.

I still look at myself and want to improve.