Drake Inspiring Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Motivate Your Journey

"Everybody dies but not everybody lives."

- Drake

"Accept yourself. You don’t have to prove anything to no one except yourself."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"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."

- Drake

"Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."

- Drake

"If you think I’mma quit before I die dream on."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"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."

- Drake

"Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn."

- Drake

"A goal is just a dream with a deadline."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"I’m always going to work like I have something to prove."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down."

- Drake

"Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"The moment I stop having fun with it, I’ll be done with it."

- Drake

"Kill them with success and bury them with a smile."

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"I know they say the first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest."

- Drake

"You don’t gotta prove shit to no one except yourself"

- Drake

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

- Drake

"Life can always change, you have to adjust"

- Drake

"Sometimes it’s about going there, not getting there. Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. And sometimes when you get there, you’ll look back and you’ll realize that you wish you could go there again because all the experiences are the reason that you are who you are today."

- Drake

"Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success."

- Drake

"Everybody has an addiction, mine happens to be success."

- Drake

"'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection."

- Drake

"I’m trying to do better than good enough."

- Drake

"Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long."

- Drake

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

- Drake

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

- Drake

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

- Drake

"I’d rather tell you how I really feel."

- Drake

"I push myself in a lot of aspects."

- Drake

"Each day I'm thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality, and like that, turned into love."

- Drake

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Smile and let everyone know that today, you're a lot stronger than you were yesterday."

- Drake

"I feel this great responsibility to see how far can we take it, how out of reach can I set that bar for whoever comes after. While I'm here, I'm gonna keep pushing that bar higher and higher up and make you really work for it."

- Drake

"I could stop right here and say, 'Okay. I own this. You know, it’s cool. I could stop,' but why? I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be. So I’m going to work in the gym two hours a day. And try and be up there on stage, looking strong, looking iconic."

- Drake

"Life can always change; you have to adjust."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"Always smile more than you cry, give more than you take, love more than you hate."

- Drake

"No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless."

- Drake

"I rarely celebrate anything. For anyone watching this that's wondering how this happened, that's really the answer: It's being so unsure how you're getting it done that you just keep going in the hopes of figuring out the formula. Feeling so lucky and blessed that the fear of losing it keeps you up at night."

- Drake

"Strength isn't always shown in what you can hold on to; sometimes, it's shown in what you can let go of."

- Drake

"Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser."

- Drake

"We may be worlds apart in the sense of, you know, where you’re from, where I'm from, what I'm doing, what you're doing—but what are we talking about? We're talking about very simple human emotions. We're talking about love, sometimes. We're talking about triumph, we're talking about failure, we're talking about nerves. We're talking about fear. We're talking about doubt. It doesn't matter what you're doing—you gotta at least hear what I'm saying to you. And I pray that it helps."

- Drake

"I'm always going to work like I have something to prove I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day."

- Drake

"It's funny when you come in first but you hope that you're last, you just hope that it lasts."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"Judge me, and you’ll have no time left to love me."

- Drake

"You know its real when you are who you think you are"

- Drake

"Always felt like my vision been bigger than the bigger picture."

- Drake

"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."

- Drake

"I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection."

- Drake

"Count your blessings, not problems."

- Drake

"My life is mine to remember."

- Drake

"Careful what you wish for, you just might get it all."

- Drake

"I swear this life is like the sweetest thing I’ve ever known."

- Drake

"Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight."

- Drake

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

- Drake

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

- Drake

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

- Drake

"Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending."

- Drake

"Last name Ever, first name Greatest."

- Drake

"I'm a human being that's willing to show you I'm a human being. That, to me, is supreme confidence —the fact that I can express the issues I have."

- Drake

"Everyone who doubted me is asking for forgiveness. If you ain't been a part of it, at least you got to witness."

- Drake

"Life can always change, you have to adjust."

- Drake

"It's funny. I remember I used to have this mentality where I'd be at the Grammys or at the MTV Awards, sitting at my seat, saying,'Oh, God, I hope they cancel my performance, or maybe the stage will break and I won't have to do this tonight—I'm nervous.' Like, on tour, I'd say, 'I hope something happens where they have to clear the building, and we'll get one night off.' This was early on, around the first album. But now I'm just like, 'Man, I hope they give me five extra minutes.'"

- Drake

"Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice."

- Drake

"I live for the nights that I can't remember, with the people that I won't forget."

- Drake

"Be true to yourself, love yourself first, don't assume you're being attacked, and be mindful of your words."

- Drake

"I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges me, I'm not going to back down."

- Drake

"Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending."

- Drake

"I never said it'd be fair but when you're all alone, I hope you truly know how bad I want to be there."

- Drake

"One day you're going to remember me and how much I loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for letting me go."

- Drake

"Sometimes love is irrational. But that can be the fun part."

- Drake

"I never had you, although I would be glad to I'd probably go and tattoo, your name on my heart."

- Drake

"Sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on. That is when you are the prettiest, I hope that you do not take it wrong."

- Drake

"I've always been feeling like she was the piece to complete me."

- Drake

"She said, Do you love me? I tell her, only partly."

- Drake

"The game ain't always fair, and that's the thing, though. You can play your heart out; everybody doesn't get a ring, though."

- Drake

"I think I'm addicted to success."

- Drake

"I've already sacrificed so much of my time that I have to push it as far as I possibly can because I've ten up a lot of years."

- Drake

"Life is just a game in which the cards are facing down."

- Drake

"I'm in a world where things are taken and never given how long they choose to love you will never be your decision."

- Drake

"All I want to do is work. I just want to make this album as incredible as I can. That's really the best way to put it."

- Drake

"They ain't make me what I am; they just found me like this."

- Drake

"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."

- Drake

"Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin' with no makeup on, that's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong."

- Drake

"If your whole heart wasn't in it, I know a piece of it was."

- Drake

"My soulmate is somewhere out in the world just waiting on me."

- Drake

"Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments."

- Drake

"And the dirt that they threw on my name turned to soil, and I grew up out of it."

- Drake

"Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up."

- Drake

"Sometimes I laugh with God about how you can't stop me."

- Drake

"I'm his darkest angel probably but he still got me."

- Drake

"I'm gettin' mine, but still I better lives."

- Drake

"But the last thing I grew up as was rich."

- Drake

"I wake up in the morning, and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy."

- Drake

"I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out."

- Drake

"You can never reminisce when you forget it all. Careful what you wish for, you just might get it all."

- Drake

"I'm actually here in front of you living the truth. I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out."

- Drake

"I mean, I’m really trying. It's not like I'm just sitting here, just f**kin' shooting with my eyes closed. Like, I'm trying. I'm really trying to make music for your life."

- Drake

"I like it when money makes a difference but don't make you different."

- Drake

"I just want to be remembered as somebody who was himself. Not a product."

- Drake

"I just have new goals, new places to go, new people to meet. I live off a different high point every day."

- Drake

"I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures."

- Drake

"Everybody dies, but not everybody lives."

- Drake

"Tables burn, bridges burn, you live and learn."

- Drake

"I'm trying to do better than good enough."

- Drake

"Not being vulnerable is never gonna be my thing. I'm always going to share with you what's going on in my life."

- Drake

"I wanted to prove that there’s distance between me and the people you consider to be my peers. I have something special."

- Drake

"I'm at a great place in my life. My life is about peace, my life is about drinking espressos and wine, I'm trying to make this album, I'm enjoying being a father, I'm enjoying my house. My mind isn’t plagued by beef."

- Drake

"I'm thinking about this body of work—and asking myself: Where am I at in my life, how can I sum it up, and how can I make it relatable?"

- Drake

"All in all I learned a lesson from it though, you never see it coming you just get to see it go."

- Drake

"What bothers me most is sometimes I feel like I don't get enough credit 'cause I'm not enough of a loose cannon. People just want me to go off more and lose my composure. That's not me. I'm a naturally poised individual, I don't want to come out making mistakes."

- Drake

"It's funny when you coming in first but you hope that you're last, you just hope that it lasts."

- Drake

"We don't like to do too much explaining, story stayed the same, I never changed it."

- Drake

"I’ve never been reckless—it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated."

- Drake

"The truth is, I'm really bad at taking compliments. I'm really self-conscious about my music. Even if I do a good job, I always wonder how I could have done it better."

- Drake

"Please, think before you come for the great one."

- Drake

"Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely."

- Drake

"Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"YOLO."

- Drake

"My ex asked where I'm going, I said moving on to other things."

- Drake

"How beautiful our kids would be, I don't need convincing."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"The good ones go, if you wait too long."

- Drake

"Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time."

- Drake

"Talk to me, please, don't have much to believe in I need you right now are you down to listen to me?"

- Drake

"People like to build their own stories about my life."

- Drake

"I don't know if it makes them feel better or if it makes it okay for them not to like me."

- Drake

"Make the most out of tonight, and worry about it all tomorrow."

- Drake

"I have an urge to communicate."

- Drake

"I guess you lose some and you win some, as long as the outcome is income."

- Drake

"Ask you to please excuse my table manners; I was making room for the table dancers."

- Drake

"Cancel out my ex, I put a line through that b*tch."

- Drake

"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."

- Drake

"I got somewhere to be."

- Drake

"Trigger fingers turn to Twitter fingers."

- Drake

"I don't know why they've been lying, but your sh*t is not that inspiring."

- Drake

"And look man, Ye's pool is nice, mine's just bigger's what I'm saying."

- Drake

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

- Drake

"You need to act your age and not your girl's age."

- Drake

"Make sure you hit him with the prenup."

- Drake

"Bout to call your a*s an uber."

- Drake

"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen."

"Count your blessings, not your problems."