aspiring success Quotes

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.

I'm 30. I'm about to hit my prime now. I need to act and keep building.

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

My life has been in reverse. It wasn't fame, and it wasn't money, but I always wanted to succeed. The only way I could do that was to try with every job to be better than I was in the last one, and to learn.

But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Once I got to Leicester, I just wanted to prove myself.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

When I got into the business of entertainment, I did it for a reason. I didn't do it to not be successful. I did it to be successful. And to hopefully get to the highest level that I possibly could. Thus far, I'm achieving those goals. That doesn't make you stop. That doesn't make you complacent. It makes you want to do more.

I'm so proud of my parents. I need to make them as proud of me.

You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night.

I think when you have some success, you're living the dream, and you want to have more success.

Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.