I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

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.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

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.

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.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Success is the child of audacity.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

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

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Of course awards matter.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

All great achievements require time.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The only way round is through.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.