Kanye West Quotes

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.