Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

It's easy to forget who you are.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Figure out who you are.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What makes me special?' and I started to find most of my value in the fact that I was thin.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.