Jay-Z Quotes

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

Life is a gift, love opens it up.

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self.

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

just when i thought i had everything, i lost it all

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep