Kanye West Quotes

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

Nothing in life is promised except death.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

Success is the best revenge.

I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

Being fresh is more important than having money.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

I don't expect to be understood at all.

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

My wife has dated broke black dudes.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome