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.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.