80+ Kanye West Quotes About Life, Fame, and Success

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self-esteem.

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

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.

I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

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

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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.

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

I’m like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

Being fresh is more important than having money.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side.

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

My greatest pain in life is that I’ll never be able to see myself perform live.

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

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

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 feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.

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

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

Let the music defuse all the tension.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.

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

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

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

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

When we die, the money we can’t keep, But we probably spend it all ’cause the pain ain’t cheap…

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

It’s a tough world out there. You’re going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees – and usually when you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

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

For me, you know, I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing, we’re constantly making mistakes, we’re constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

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

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

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

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.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

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

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

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

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Believe in your flyness…conquer your shyness.

There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.

I don’t particularly like photos of myself, though.

You can’t look at a glass half full or empty if it’s overflowing.

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won’t even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

If you know you’re the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

I’ve been saying how I feel at the wrong time.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

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

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

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

If you’re taught you can’t do anything you won’t do anything, I was taught I could do everything.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

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

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.