If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

It is natural to want to have a future.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Losing is tough.

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

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

To lead people walk behind them.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I always make my dreams into goals.

A good song never gets old.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.