Rihanna Inspirational Quotes

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling always leads the sound!

If someone is right for you, you'll know it.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

I have several videos on my phone that I’ve never released. Having dance parties in our car, don’t be jealous!

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

So much has happened in the past five years, I can't speak for the next five. What I want is to continue to grow. Because I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless - which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

Put your troubles aside and start living.

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn’t go without the other.

Tears were for the weaker days, I'm stronger now

Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes.

It’s amazing how lonely you can feel and like nobody understands…The moment you are vulnerable, someone always reaches out….They go through the same things. I want them to feel comfortable knowing that I have flaws as wells. I want them to know those flaws. I’m afraid of the pedestal…I want to be a peer to my fans

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.

My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely.

Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks ... sharks swim with sharks.

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.

I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.

Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to do: to play dress-up, and create outfits and looks that aren't typical. I am an artist, so I like creating things.

I absolutely do prefer a dominant guy. I play a very dominant role in my life, in every other aspect of it. And I like to feel like a lady still, at some point. I feel like that's the time when a guy really gets to be a man, and I get to be a woman. And if I'm being a man in the bedroom too, there's nothing really in it for me.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

We found love in a hopeless place.

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.

Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good.

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

I don't ever want to have to depend on a relationship. I think it's a really special thing to find love. It's beautiful. Nothing can match it. But I want to make sure that I find other things in life that I love besides . . . love.

Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

I have always loved kids. They are little adults with so much personality, and it is fun to work with that. Whether that means donating school supplies or medication, or [using my celebrity] to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it.

Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.

I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

You the one that I dream about all day. You the one that I think about always. You are the one so I make sure I behave! My love is your love, your love is my love.

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.

My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.

As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

I hate drama. But at the same time, nothing bothers me more than when life's perfect. And that's the sick part. I just love a challenge, whether it's a relationship, my career, clothing.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

If I'm wearing a top, I don't wear a bra. If I'm wearing a bra, I just wear a bra.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.

I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.

Never a failure,always a lesson.

I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be in my future, but I considered psychology, hairdressing, banking, teaching, acting, modeling, aviation, and philanthropy. I just didn't know I'd pretty much be doing all of these things eventually!

I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful. I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence.

Love isn't complicated, people are.

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

I don't have anything to hide.

If you want to do something for Jah, then dont associate with people who do nothing

Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

When it comes to fashion, I like to see individuality.