Dizzee Rascal Quotes

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

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

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.

That is what we should be doing: liberating everyone's potential, whether it's a self-made individual, whether it's someone taking the university route, whether it's the apprenticeship route. They are all equal and good and worthwhile.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

I wasn't good at school, so I wouldn't have gone to university. I'm so grateful for football, and I don't know where I would be without it, but I know I would have worked hard.

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in life, whatever it is you do.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.