Drake is arguably one of the best artists in music today. What a lot of people don’t know about him is his extreme motivation to reach a certain level of success, not just in music, but also in life and other business ventures he is involved in.

In 2013, Drake was announced as the Global Ambassador for the Toronto Raptors, a professional basketball team. He has said on record many times how he is addicted to success and wants to be number 1. With the determination that he has, he’s become one of the best selling music artists of all time, with over 170 million records sold. 

Here are 55 of Drake’s most memorable quotes and lyrics:

1. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.”

2. “Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.”

3. “Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success.”

4. “People will wish you all the success in the world and then hate you when you get it.”

6. “Judge me, and you’ll have no time left to love me.”

7. “It’s never too late to realize what you want in your life and it’s never wrong to fight for it.”

8. “You know its real when you are who you think you are”

9. “Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday.”

10. “Strength isn’t always shown in what you can hold on to, sometimes it’s shown in what you can let go of.”

11. “I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.”

12. “Always felt like my vision been bigger than the bigger picture.”

13. “Everybody dies but not everybody lives.”

14. “The moment I stop having fun with it, I’ll be done with it.”

16. “Know life is just a game in which the cards are facing down. I’m in the world where things are taken, never given how long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

17. “I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”

18. “Life can always change, you have to adjust”

19. “Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.”

20. “Count your blessings, not problems.”

21. “Everybody has an addiction, mine happens to be success.”

22. “I’m trying to do better than good enough.”

23. “Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.”

24. “When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.”

25. “I’m not confrontational but if someone challengesme I’m not going to back down.”

26. “My life is mine to remember.”

27. “The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.”

28. “When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.”

29. “People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.”

30. “Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there.”

31. “I’d rather tell you how I really feel.”

32. “I have an urge to communicate.”

33. “I push myself in a lot of aspects.”

34. “Accept yourself. You don’t have to prove anything to no one except yourself.”

35. “I’m trying to better than good enough.”

36. “Careful what you wish for, you just might get it all.”

37. “I sit and eat with some of the hardest working people in the business. And I observe and I try to apply it to my own craft.”

38. “If you think I’mma quit before I die dream on.”

39. “When you get hurt by the one you living for, pain can make you wanna love no more.”

40. “I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.”

41. “Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.”

42. “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.”

43. “When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.”

44. “I’m always going to work like I have something to prove.”

45. “You know life is what we make it, and a chance is like a picture, it’d be nice if you just take it.”

46. “I swear this life is like the sweetest thing I’ve ever known.”

47. “Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight.”

48. “Make the most out of tonight, and worry about it all tomorrow.”

49. “I live for the nights that I can’t remember, with the people that I won’t forget.”

50. “Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish… being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.”

51. “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”

52. “The good ones go, if you wait too long.”

53. “Wish you would learn to love people and use things, and not the other way around.”

54. “I know they say the first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.”

55. “The girl that I want to save is like a danger to my health. Try being with somebody that want to be somebody else.”

Check out Drake’s motivational video below for more inspiration:

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