Drake Quotes

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I suffered a lot of setbacks when I started; I didn't have any work experience and no real confidence to go after the career that I knew in the back of my mind I really wanted. It affected my confidence as knock-back after knock-back left me feeling like I might never succeed.

Every day of your life is struggle. You are always struggling to achieve more and more. So one can never say, 'I am not struggling.'

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Winning takes care of everything.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Success is man's god.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.