85+ Inspirational Beyonce Quotes About Love, Life, And Success

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Updated: April 27th, 2022

Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter, popularly known as Beyonce, is an American pop singer, songwriter, and actress.

Beyonce performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group, Destiny's Child. Managed by her father Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.

Beyonce's 2006 B'Day sold over 1.6 million copies in the U.S., becoming her biggest solo album at that point. She also acquired a nickname for her enticing personality, Queen B. In 2014, Beyonce was named the highest-earning black musician of all time by Billboard. In 2020, her name was added to Time's list of 100 influential women who defined the previous century.

We've put together an incredible collection of the best Beyonce quotes to read.

Here they are:

85+ Inspirational Beyonce Quotes About Love, Life, And Success

Inspiring Beyonce Quotes On Love

Love is so blind it feels so right when it’s wrong. – Beyonce

Love is something that never goes out of style. – Beyonce

Love doesn’t hurt; loving the wrong person does. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

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

Come take my hand. I won’t let you go. I’ll be your friend. I will love you so deeply. I will be the one to kiss at night. I will love you until the end of time. – Beyonce

Hold up, they don’t love you as I love you; Slow down, they don’t love you as I love you; Back up, they don’t love you as I love you. – Beyonce

Now we’re going to hold doors open for a while / Now we can be open for a while / Forward / I love you more than this job, please don’t work for me. – Beyonce

I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in inequality. Why do we have to choose what type of woman we are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I’m just a woman, and I love being a woman. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

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

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? – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

Powerful Beyonce Quotes On Life

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

If you don’t take the time to think about and analyze your life, you’ll never realize all the dots that are all connected. – Beyonce

I wanna say I lived each day until I die. And I know that I meant something in somebody’s life. The hearts I have touched will be the proof that I leave that I made a difference, and this world will see. – Beyonce

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

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. – Beyonce

Who I am on stage is very, very different from who I am in real life. – Beyonce

Have your own life before you become somebody’s wife. – Beyonce

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

There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energized and fun. – Beyonce

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

If you don't take the time to think about and analyze your life, you'll never realize all the dots that are all connected. – Beyonce

I'm bigger than life. My name in the lights, I'm the number one check. I don't need any hype. – Beyonce

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. – Beyonce

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

Women have to take the time to focus on their mental health — take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. – Beyonce

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

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

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence. – Beyonce

If you’re with the right person, it brings out the best version of you. – Beyonce

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

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

The world will see you the way you see you and treat you the way you treat yourself. – Beyonce

Favorite Beyonce Quotes On Success

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

What does fear taste like? Success. I have accomplished nothing without a little taste of fear in my mouth. – Beyonce

Never let success go to your head; never let failure get to your heart. – Beyonce

It’s not about perfection. It’s about purpose. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

We all have our purpose, we all have our strengths. – Beyonce

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It’s really about who you are and the human being that makes you beautiful. – Beyonce

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

We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. – Beyonce

I had a choice, to stand still or move forward, to let things happen, or to make things happen. Every day I wake up, I make a choice not to let the world decide for me; I decide for myself. I decide to get going. – Beyonce

I don’t need people to think for me. I’ve never been that way, and I don’t ever want to be that way. – Beyonce

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don’t change? – Beyonce

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

I’m not bossy; I’m the boss. – Beyonce

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

Some days I’m Beyonce; other days, I’m Lay-Z. – Beyonce

You can’t appreciate the good times without the bad ones. – Beyonce

Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

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

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

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. – Beyonce

Famous Beyonce Quotes On Music

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. – Beyonce

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. People who complain really get on my nerves. – Beyonce

I’m a workaholic and I don’t believe in ‘No’. If I’m not sleeping, nobody’s sleeping. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

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. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever. – Beyonce

I have dreams, and I feel like I have the power to actually make those dreams become a reality. – Beyonce

Humanity requires both men and women and we are equally important and need one another. – Beyonce

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. – Beyonce

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me. – Beyonce

I embrace mistakes. They make you who you are. – Beyonce

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

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. – Beyonce

You can taste the dishonesty, it’s all over your breath as you pass it off so cavalier. – Beyonce

My lonely ear pressed against the walls of your world. – Beyonce

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