Kanye West Quotes

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

One creates oneself.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.