K'naan Quotes

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

I'm living out my dreams every day.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

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.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.