Beyonce Knowles Quotes:

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

Topics: Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

Topics: Differences, Giving, Parent

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Topics: Song, Empowering, Stronger

I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

Topics: Girl, Numbers, Drug, Pantry, Disaster Relief

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

Topics: Rocks, Guitar, Festivals, Music Festival

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

source: - "New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges and Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

Topics: Perfect, Grows

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Topics: Views, Feminist, Perception, Inspirational Feminist, Kickass Women

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty, Outer Beauty

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Topics: Mean, Hard Work, Thinking

I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

Topics: Sunday, Meals, Want

Love is something that never goes out of style.

Topics: Love Is, Style

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

Topics: Mcdonalds, Salad, Different, Menus

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Topics: Real, Who I Am, Different, Personal Relationship With God, Personal Relationships

We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

Topics: Reality, Men, Equal Pay, Working Women, Gender Equality

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Letting Go, Good Bye

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Topics: Sexy, Running, Believe, Backseat

My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

Topics: Mother, Children, Believe, Easier Said Than Done, Visualizing

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Topics: Forever, Invisible

You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.

Topics: Who I Am, Fingers

Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.

Topics: Love Is, People, Style

I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think.

Topics: Smart, Fighting, Thinking

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Topics: Art, Believe, Order

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

Topics: Gone, Painful, Painful Experiences

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

Topics: Men, Facts, Reason

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

Topics: Appreciate, Good Times

My daughter introduced me to myself.

Topics: Daughter, My Daughter

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

source: - "Beyoncé's Baby Love" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 11, 2011.

Topics: Persons, Right Person

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Topics: Beautiful, Imperfection

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

Topics: Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Self Worth, Inspiring Yourself, My Self Worth

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

source: - "Beyonce: What I'm Thankful For" by Lauren She, abcnews.go.com. November 25, 2009.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

Spread positivity; don't matter how big, or how small.

Topics: Positivity, Matter, Bigs

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

source: - "Beyonce Just Released a Very Personal Short Film on Feminism, Body Image, and Life" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Make You Happy

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

Topics: Dream, Positivity, Doubt, Cheated On, I Cheated

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

Topics: Voice, Want Something, Different

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

source: - "Be(Y) Our Bff". www.cosmopolitan.com.au. March 27, 2013.

Topics: Inspirational, Confidence, Trust Yourself

I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Thinking, Important

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

source: - Song: Me, Myself and I

Topics: Ends

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

Topics: Knowing Who You Are, Being Happy With Yourself, Knowing, Happy With Yourself

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl, Empowering Women, Girl Power

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

Topics: Inspiring, Strong, Humility

I am not bossy, I am the boss.

Topics: Empowering, Boss, Kick Ass, Bossy

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

Topics: Forever, Spirit, Beauty Fades

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are.

Topics: Mistake, Women, Embrace

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

source: - "Beyonce Yours And Mine video: Watch star talk fame, feminism, marriage and happiness" by Zoe Shenton, www.mirror.co.uk. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Mother, Strong, Taught, Never Expect

What goes around comes back around.

source: - Song: Best Thing You Never Had, Album: 4, 2011

Topics: Karma, Goes Around Comes Around, Bad Karma, Law Of Karma

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Topics: God Has A Plan, God Is In Control, Plans

Embrace your past, but live for now.

source: - "Watch: Beyoncé's Pepsi Commercial Debuts" by Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. April 4, 2013.

Topics: Past, Embrace, Your Past

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful

We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

source: - "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

Topics: Inspiring, Girl, Growing Up, Gender Equality

Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.

source: - "Photo: Beyonce wears granny panties for complex, remains super fly" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. July 19, 2011.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Sorry, Better Me

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

Topics: Hard Times, Define Yourself, Having A Hard Time

The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

source: - "Beyoncé Says Message Behind Latest Album Is "Finding the Beauty in Imperfection"—Watch Now!" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. December 17, 2013.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart, Inspiring Yourself

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Topics: Sorry, Causes, World

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Beautiful, Imperfection

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Topics: Hard Work, Mean, Sacrifice

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

Topics: Inspiring, Goal, Feminist

This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

Topics: Age, Pivotal Moments, Able

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

source: - "Destiny’s Child". Interview with Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2001.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Mistake, Stop Caring, Learn From Your Mistakes

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

Topics: Jobs, Care, I Have Learned, Take Care Of Me

Everyone's not good at everything, it's ok to depend on someone.

Topics: Depends

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

source: - Song: No-broken Hearted Girl

Topics: Breakup

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Creativity, Creative, Trouble

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

source: - "New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges and Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

Topics: Confused, Doe, Answers, I Am Confused, I'm Confused

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

Topics: Believe, Sleep, Feminist, Not Sleeping

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Feminist, Alluring, Women Confidence

Who runs the world? Girls.

source: - Song: Run The World, Album: 4, 2011

Topics: Girl, Running, World, Girl Power, Badass Women

To me it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym. I feel best when I'm not really thin and not really heavy - when I'm still curvy.

Topics: Looks, Like You, Curvy

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

Topics: Dream, Thinking, Polite, Being Polite

I'm no longer afraid of conflict, and I don't think conflict is a bad thing.

source: - "Beyonce Just Released a Very Personal Short Film on Feminism, Body Image, and Life" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Conflict, Bad Things

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

source: - Song: Me, Myself and I

Topics: Love Is, Blind, Feels Right

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

source: - Song: Satellites, 2008

Topics: Inspirational, Feminist, Don't Change

Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

source: - "Beyonce opens up on feminism, fame and marriage" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Men, Appreciate, Balance, Stood Up

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

source: - "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

Topics: Inspiration, Labels, Type, Inspiring Yourself

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

Topics: Negativity

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Feminist

There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.

source: - Song: Countdown, Album: 4, 2011

Topics: Ups & Downs, Stills

I've worked hard and I deserve everything I have. I never thought I'd have so much money. I just wanted to be financially stable and it embarrasses me and I don't feel comfortable talking or thinking about it. I don't know exactly how much I have but I don't buy much.

Topics: Thinking, Talking, Feels

Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.

Topics: Baby, Falling In Love, Love You, Overjoyed, Being Pregnant

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

source: - "Beyonce Just Released a Very Personal Short Film on Feminism, Body Image, and Life" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Body, Life Is, This Life

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Topics: Successful, Men, Needs

We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

source: - "Beyonce Documentary Quotes: Lessons We Learned From ‘Life Is But A Dream’", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2013.

Topics: Dream, Insecurity, Needs

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

Topics: Dream, Good Life, Thinking, Time To Think

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

source: - "Beyoncé's Baby Love". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 11, 2011.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Jobs, Take Care Of Me

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

Topics: Powerful, Pregnancy, Motherhood

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

source: - "Beyonce Documentary Quotes: Lessons We Learned From ‘Life Is But A Dream’", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2013.

Topics: Husband, Female, Conversation, I Love My Husband, Love My Husband

I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Topics: Want, Being The Best, Used

Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

Topics: Dream, Issues, Thank God

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

source: - "Napster Brings Music to the Masses; 'The Sopranos' Season Finale Ends With a Bang; Kyra Sedgwick Looks to Become New Talk of TV". "Showbiz Today" with Laurin Sydney and Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2000.

Topics: Inspiration, Class, Grace, Diana, Placement

I don't flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I'm not a flashy chick. I haven't got much jewellery or anything.

Topics: Nice, Chicks, Hotel, Jewellery, Flashy

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Topics: Believe, Track, Hollywood

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

source: - Source: www.refinery29.com

Topics: Wife

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Topics: Nervous, Shows, Knows

The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.

source: - "Usher, Beyonce, More Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2009.

Topics: Art, Kings, Love You, History Of Music

Most women don't want to take the time to figure out their style. It's okay to experiment a little bit, but don't get too far from what looks good on you.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Style, Okay

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

source: - "Watch Beyonce's Short Film About Feminism, Fame and Family" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 12, 2014.

Topics: Real, Looks, Humans

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Religious, People, Important

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

source: - "Beyonce Documentary Quotes: Lessons We Learned From ‘Life Is But A Dream’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2013.

Topics: Inspiring, Running, Sexy, Strong Women And Love

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Hair, Feet, Walks, Bare Feet

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Topics: Love, Fall, Sometimes, Celebrity Relationship

You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

source: - "Showbiz Tonight" with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2009.

Topics: Girl, Children, Thinking

My mom has always told me that beauty fades but inner beauty is forever. There's nothing more beautiful than a woman [who] takes care of [herself].

source: - "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

Topics: Beautiful, Mom, Forever, Beauty Fades

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

source: - "Beyonce's Out Cover Story: 10 Quotes That Give Us Life" by John Walker, www.mtv.com. April 08, 2014.

Topics: Want

But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning.

Topics: Guy, Enough, Stills, Guy I Like

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.

source: - "Beyoncé: the superstar who brought black power to the Super Bowl" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2016.

Topics: Inspiring, Girl, Stars, Pop Stars, Hot Girl

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

source: - Song: Love On Top, Album: 4, 2011

Topics: Song, Baby, Love You, I Need You

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

source: - "The Liberation of B." by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. December 4, 2008.

Topics: Mean, Frustrated, Honey

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

Topics: Love, Heart, Knowing, Dangerous Things

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

source: - "New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges, Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

Topics: Nice, School, House, Private School, Nice House

I like guys who are cool and laid-back.Someone who works really hard and has goals but who I can be silly with. Looks are not important to me.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Silly, Goal, Guy

I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring.

Topics: Pregnancy, Thinking, Water, Eating Healthy, French Fries

I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.

Topics: Home, Thinking, Would Be

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

source: - "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Focus, Together

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

source: - "She Is Legend". Interview with Mark Healy, www.marieclaire.com. May 6, 2009.

Topics: Kids, Dinner, Way

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

Topics: Pay, Invited, Ifs

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

source: - Song: Pretty Hurts, 2013

Topics: Perfection, Feminist, Disease

At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

source: - "Beyonce wants slumber parties, normal childhood for baby Blue Ivy". www.today.com. February 12, 2013.

Topics: Daughter, Running, Children, Slumber Party

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

Topics: Inspiring, Adults, Want

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

Topics: Cutting, Would Be, Fame

I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: I Love Music, Coming Back

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.

source: - "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

Topics: Children, Destiny, Clothing Line

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

Topics: Inspiration, Looks, Today

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Topics: Bullying, Kids, Trying, Introverted

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

Topics: Wife, Interviews, Becoming, Becoming Someone

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

source: - "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

Topics: Sexy, Curvy Women, Feminine, Turner

And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good

Topics: Husband, Pregnancy, Years

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

source: - "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

Topics: Athlete, Super Bowl, Reason

Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Topics: Cute, Cute Love, England

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world.

Topics: Powerful, Pregnancy, Thinking

Everyday we see your heart and character, inspiring all of us to give more of ourselves.'You are the leader to take us from where we are to where we need to be.

Topics: Heart, Character, Giving

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

source: - "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

Topics: Mother, Family Love, Unity, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Dark, Comedy, Stills

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Topics: Art, School, Performing, Performing Arts

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

Topics: Education, School, Imagine

Tatoo your name across my heart, so it will remain / not even death could make us part / what kind is it / It could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare / either way I don't want to wake up from you.

Topics: Beautiful, Dream, Sweet, Sweet Dreams

I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Topics: Jobs, Children, Independent, Independent Thinking

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Topics: Want, Able, Scream

I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.

Topics: Dream, Thinking, Support

Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

Topics: Funny, Drama, Dumb

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

Topics: Inspirational, Powerful, Video

I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.

Topics: Inspiring, Running, Heart

Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

Topics: Mother, Mean, Loses

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

source: - "She Is Legend". Interview with Mark Healy, www.marieclaire.com. May 6, 2009.

Topics: Inspirational, Sexy, Moving

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Topics: Records, Chill, Platinum, Chilled, Chilling Out

I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

Topics: Want, Legends, Celine

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

source: - "Beyonce Reveals New Album Title:4" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 11, 2011.

Topics: Inspiring, Goal, Trying, Higher Goals

I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Awards, Nine, Grammy

The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

Topics: Song, Cat, Thinking, My Generation, Pink Panther

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

source: - "What Famous Women Say About Being Flawed, Insecure, and Loving It" by Daniella Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2016.

Topics: Inspiring, Beauty, Confidence, Inspirational Body, Women's Bodies

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down -- we're not going to be the Number One group in the world forever -- so you have to have something else to fall back on.

source: - "New Again: Destiny's Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges, Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. August, 2001.

Topics: Inspiring, Fall, Thinking

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

source: - "Beyoncé's new HBO film: how might Life is But a Dream play out?" by Katie Rogers, Ruth Spencer, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2013.

Topics: Mean, Motherhood, Giving

I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take another place, another time, another world, another life. Thank God I found the good in goodbye.

source: - Song: Best Thing You Never Had, Album: 4, 2011

Topics: Goodbye, Thank God, World, Another World

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

Topics: Artist, Opportunity, Magazines, Magazine Covers

We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

source: - "Gender Equality Is a Myth!". shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.

Topics: Opportunity, Feminist, Working Together

I grew up upper-class. Private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

source: - "Beyonce goes jet skiing in a floor length dress as she sparks feud with the Jackson family". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2009.

Topics: Dad, School, Class, Upper Class, Jaguars

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

source: - "Beyoncé unveils new album title: 4" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2011.

Topics: Birthday, Mother, Numbers

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

Topics: Stars, People, Fans

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

Topics: Attitude, Feel Good, Feelings

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Topics: Laughing, Make Me Laugh, Charming, Attracted To Someone

I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.

source: - "Motherhood Makes Beyoncé Feel 'More Beautiful Than Ever'". Interview with Alexis Chiu, people.com. April 25, 2012.

Topics: Beautiful, Daughter, Mean, Words Love, Having A Daughter

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Topics: Single, Breakup, Love You

The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

Topics: Children, Drama, Destiny

I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Mother, Kids, People

I remember thinking, "My little sister is going to be something super special," because you always seemed to know what you wanted. And I'm just curious, where did that come from?

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Thinking, Little Sister, Special

I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

Topics: Mother, Strong, Pregnancy, Strong Foundation

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

source: - "Beyoncé Liberated" by Aaron Hicklin, www.out.com. April 8, 2014.

Topics: Mother, Artist, Feminist

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

source: - "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

Topics: Sexy, Nice, Jeans

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

source: - "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

Topics: Dresses, Different, Common, Couture

Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.

source: - "Beyonce discusses pregnancy and her new fragrance". Interview with Alicia Quarles, newsok.com. September 22, 2011.

Topics: Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Thinking

Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.

source: - "Beyonce and Tina Knowles on fashion collection and pregnancy". Interview with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2011.

Topics: Fun, Pregnancy, Shopping, Fun Times

'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.

Topics: Love, Baby, Crazy, You Got Me, Crazy Love

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

source: - "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

Topics: Jobs, Needs

When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

Topics: Cameras, Attention, Littles, Being Famous

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

Topics: Years, Car, Austin

I don't try to hide our relationship with Jay-Z. There's nothing to hide. People see us, but we just don't talk about it, and I think that's absolutely helped us. People give us space and respect us. The minute you start talking about it, that's all people want to talk about. And then the really big rumors start happening.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Giving

Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

Topics: Children, Destiny, Lists

It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

source: - "Beyonce: The Billboard Q&A". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.billboard.com. October 2, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Cities, People, Already Gone

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

Topics: Children, Motherhood, Four

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

Topics: Father, Hands, Feminist

I have two different sides to my personality. I decided to give my fans what they want and who they are used to who is the person in all the videos and the person in 'Crazy in Love' who is Sasha Fierce. I have someone else takes over when its time for me to work and when I'm on stage.

Topics: Crazy, Two, Giving, Different Sides, Crazy Love

You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Strong, Men, People

I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.

source: - "Fastest celebrity post-baby slim-downs", www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2012.

Topics: Baby, Breastfeeding, Weight

Right now the tabloids are saying I'm pregnant, and they're naming the baby. It's hilarious. I don't know when I'll want to get married. I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister's wedding,I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I'd want. I don't think I want a big one.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Baby, Thinking, Married

I've grown so much. I'm more picky about what I'll do,and I'm more of a businesswoman. But at the same time, I take care of myself. All I used to do was work. Now I'm comfortable in my own skin and have a good balance.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Balance, Skins, Care

I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.

Topics: Stars, Would Be, Littles

Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Big Sister, Bigs, Honestly

I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Pain, Mean, Life Experience

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

Topics: Song, Two, Curls

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Creativity, Helping Others, Hairstylist

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

Topics: Who I Am, Listening, Core

I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.

Topics: Boys, Thinking, Wonderful, Backstreet Boys, Backstreet

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Topics: Feminist, Feminism, Needs

It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.

Topics: Movie, Real, Character

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

source: - "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

Topics: Song, Children, Writing

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Topics: Imperfection, Feminist, Albums

There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Jobs, Perfect, Good Times

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Topics: Tired, Men, Thinking, Tired Of Working

I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.

source: - "'I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door… so I couldn't think about my own pain': Beyoncé opens up about giving birth and her plans for baby No.2" by Fehintola Betiku, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 11, 2013.

Topics: Baby, Strong, Children, Strong Connection, Pushing Through

We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

source: - "Date with destiny". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2001.

Topics: Guy, Exposed

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Topics: Dance, Dancing, Singing, Cartwheels, Singing And Dancing

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

source: - "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

Topics: Cutting, Talent, Stage