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

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

‚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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I have goals.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

No great thing is created suddenly.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Success is not a stop sign.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.