J. Cole Quotes

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.

I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

The same ones you love will bring you pain.

If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.

Hard to move on when you always regret one.

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

Don't worry, Even Jesus never saw his real father

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set

You hate it before you played it. I already forgave ya.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.

If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?