Beyonce Knowles Quotes

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

That's something that I have to work on: Self-confidence and loving myself.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

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

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.