Jay-Z Quotes

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

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

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

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

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

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

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

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

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.

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

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

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

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

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

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

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

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

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

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

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

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

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

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

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.