Jay-Z Quotes

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!

My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.

In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.

New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.