Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

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.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I have goals.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Success is the child of audacity.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

All great achievements require time.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Well begun is half done.

My reputation precedes me now.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.