Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

""Your self worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.""

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"Now everybody asks me why I'm smiling out from ear to ear."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

"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. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"I want to build a community where women of all races can communicate and … continue to support and take care of each other. I want to give women a space to feel their own strength and tell their stories. That is power."

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Beyoncé

"Don’t talk about my sister; don’t play with me about my sister. If you do, you’ll see another side of me."

- Beyoncé

"In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s! Let’s make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Beyoncé

"My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before."

- Beyoncé

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you."

- Beyoncé

"As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am."

- Beyoncé

"Who run the world? Girls."

- Beyoncé

"Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"I'm indecent, let it begin."

- Beyoncé

"I'm one of one."

- Beyoncé

"I'm on that new vibration."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health — take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself."

- Beyoncé

"In our perfect ways, in the ways we are beautiful, in the ways we are human — we are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"Baby, it’s you / You’re the one I love / You’re the one I need / You’re the only one I see."

- Beyoncé

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Your self worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"I'm not bossy. I'm the boss."

- Beyoncé

"Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you."

- Beyoncé

"Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me."

- Beyoncé

"My daughter introduced me to myself…the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."

- Beyoncé

"I rather give up everything than to live my life without you."

- Beyoncé

""My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before.""

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Beyoncé

"While you're tremblin', that's when the magic happens and the stars gather by your side."

- Beyoncé

"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!"

- Beyoncé

"Some call it arrogant I call it confidence."

- Beyoncé

"…if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

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

- Beyoncé

"I'm focused, I'm determined, and I'm driven."

- Beyoncé

"Unapologetic when we f*ck up the night."

- Beyoncé

"Only double lines we cross is dollar signs."

- Beyoncé

"Comfortable in my skin. Cozy with who I am."

- Beyoncé

"Happy Juneteenth! Being Black is your activism. Black excellence is a form of protest. Black joy is your right."

- Beyoncé

"From the top of the mornin', I shine."

- Beyoncé

"Bey is back, and I'm sleepin' real good at night."

- Beyoncé

"Who this girl in the back of the room?"

- Beyoncé

"I came to slay."

- Beyoncé

"Wanna party, wanna dance, wanna be myself tonight, me bodied."

- Beyoncé

"Only a real one could tame me."

- Beyoncé

"Lemme upgrade you."

- Beyoncé

"It's the beat my heart skips when I'm with you."

- Beyoncé

"I think you're so cool, even though I'm cooler than you."

- Beyoncé

"If I ain't got nothing, I got you."

- Beyoncé

"So when the world's at war, let our love heal us all."

- Beyoncé

"You are my last, my first."

- Beyoncé

"I love the little things that make you, you."

- Beyoncé

"Finally I found the smiles."

- Beyoncé

"Put a ring on it."

- Beyoncé

"This is why I live, sweet moments like this."

- Beyoncé

"Cuff it, baby."

- Beyoncé

"You're everything I need and more."

- Beyoncé

"When I look in your eyes, I feel alive."

- Beyoncé

"I love you like XO."

- Beyoncé

"I feel like fallin' in love."

- Beyoncé

"I woke up like this."

- Beyoncé

"You know you that b*tch when you cause all this conversation."

- Beyoncé

"I break chains all by myself."

- Beyoncé

"I got every reason to feel like I'm that b*tch."

- Beyoncé

"Nobody can judge me but me / I was born free."

- Beyoncé

"I know the world and I know who I am / It's 'bout time I show it."

- Beyoncé

"Step in your essence and know that you're excellent."

- Beyoncé

"Most things out of focus view / But when you're in the room, they notice you."

- Beyoncé

"In the darkest night hour, I'll search through the crowd. Your face is all that I see."

- Beyoncé

"You put my love on top."

- Beyoncé

"I love you down to the bone."

- Beyoncé

"Still all up on each other, ain't a damn thing change."

- Beyoncé

"Cause love can't get no higher than this."

- Beyoncé

"We gon' take it to the moon, take it to the stars."

- Beyoncé

"I will be your projector."

- Beyoncé

"Used to say I spoke, 'Too country' / And the rejection came, said 'I wasn’t country 'nough' / Said I wouldn’t saddle up, but / If that ain’t country, tell me what is?"

- Beyoncé

"Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper."

- Beyoncé

"I don’t fellowship with these fake ones."

- Beyoncé

"Ain’t got time to waste, I got art to make / I got love to create on this holy night / They won’t dim my light, all these years I fight."

- Beyoncé

"If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it!"

- Beyoncé

"I am the dragon breathing fire / Beautiful mane, I'm the lion / Beautiful man, I know you're lying / I am not broken, I'm not crying, I'm not crying."

- Beyoncé

"Your words, they take the shape my body makes / Ain’t that the scary thing."

- Beyoncé

"She’s pickin’ up good vibrations / He’s lookin’ for sweet sensations."

- Beyoncé

"I got a hot sauce in my bag, swag. Yonce all on his mouth like liquor. Surfboard."

- Beyoncé

"Radio said speed it up, I just go slower."

- Beyoncé

"Why would you try me? Why would you bother? I am Beyonce Giselle Knowles Carter."

- Beyoncé

"I am not broken, I'm not crying, I'm not crying."

- Beyoncé

"I saw Mama prayin’, I saw Daddy grind / All my tender problems, had to leave behind."

- Beyoncé

"I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly."

- Beyoncé

"I plan to steal your heart again / On Saturday and Sunday nights."

- Beyoncé

"I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself."

- Beyoncé

"I will continue to explore every inch of my soul and every part of my artistry. I want to learn more, teach more, and live in full."

- Beyoncé

"If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that’s easier said than done, but keep trying."

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Beyoncé

"Until there is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world actually looks like."

- Beyoncé

"If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own....The beauty of social media is it’s completely democratic. Everyone has a say. Everyone’s voice counts, and everyone has a chance to paint the world from their own perspective."

- Beyoncé