Rihanna Quotes

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it's about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you're different or quirky, but it's okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.

I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do things differently isn't 'uncool.' In fact, it's the exact opposite.

What grows from our head is something that we should love. The larger society can love it or not, but it's not their decision to make.

The kids say, 'Oh are we weird somehow?' and I say, 'It's OK to be different.'

I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?