Jay-Z Quotes - Page 3

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

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

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

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

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

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

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.

Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

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.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

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

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

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

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life