Kanye West Quotes

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

We're stronger than we realize.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Be strong, and of good courage.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to get turned down for all sorts of jobs. I used to writhe in pain, but then I would say, 'Good. Good. I will get stronger for this.'

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

People have talked down to me, and that fuels my fire.

I've been an underdog my whole life with the shape that I have and the way that I look. But once I get in the ring it's a whole different ball game.

You are always bigger than the problem, the problem can never be bigger than you.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.