J. Cole Quotes

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.

What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.

The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

I love that feeling of inspiring other women.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense.

There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

Night and day, you are the one.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.