Kanye West Quotes

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways.

People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else.

Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.