Tucker Max Quotes

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

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

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.