Jay-Z
Don't make decisions based on the fear.Collection: Decision
Men lie, women lie, numbers dontCollection: Lying
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.Collection: Air
I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.Collection: Flower
You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.Collection: Real
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.Collection: Stress
I believe you can speak things into existence.Collection: Motivational
Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.Collection: Judging
In trouble waters I had to learn how to floatCollection: Water
I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealthCollection: Motivational
Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.Collection: Sky
Everyone needs a chance to evolve.Collection: Needs
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.Collection: People
I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not tryingCollection: Success
No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.Collection: Matter
I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for meCollection: Dope
Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.Collection: Lasts
Jealousy’s a weak emotion.Collection: Hustle
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.Collection: Two
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do itCollection: Motivational
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.Collection: Father
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.Collection: Strength
Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!Collection: Garbage Cans
It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.Collection: Artist
Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.Collection: Rap
I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.Collection: Past
You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.Collection: Church
The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.Collection: Not Giving Up
I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship