Kanye West Quotes

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

It takes courage to break down the walls that keep you away from really living your life.

I don't operate in fear anymore.

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free