42 J. Cole Inspiring Quotes to Fuel Your Dreams and Ambitions

"Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles."

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"I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do."

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"Never give up until you've given out all your very best. It's better to fail trying, than wondering what could have happened if you tried."

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"You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned in pain."

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"I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it."

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"You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough."

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"If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot them down."

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"I'd rather be happy being myself than sad trying to please everyone else."

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"If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!"

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"Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere."

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"Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn."

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"We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em."

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"If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it."

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"You have no control over what somebody else feels about you, but you have 100 percent control over how you feel about yourself and how you feel about the people around you and how you handle life."

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"It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success."

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"Life is a movie, pick your own role, climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole."

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"There's a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone."

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"I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it."

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"They say time is money but really, it's not. If we ever go broke, time is all we got."

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"Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out."

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"I keep my head high, I got my wings to carry me. I don't know freedom, I want my dreams to rescue me."

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"To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is."

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"No such thing as a life that's better than yours, no such thing – no such thing…"

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"The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content."

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"Sometimes our dreams come true, sometimes our fears do too."

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"I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do."

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"I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'"

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"I feel like I am officially in the game, but I also feel like I'm not where I want to be. I'm far from it. I got a lot more things to do. I got a lot more respect to get…"

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"I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats – very few cheat codes that I'm using."

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"Nothing lasts forever, but at least we've got these memories."

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"My life accelerated, but had to wait my turn. But then I redecorated, that means my tables turn."

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"I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing."

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"Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far."

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"Hard to move on when you always regret one."

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"The same ones you love will bring you pain."

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"In this life ain't no happy endings. Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance."

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"I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both."

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"The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true…"

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"I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself."

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"But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening."

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"School is a good place – it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people."

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"I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair."

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