Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

I just want to find my individuality.