She’s spoken on everything from being in an abusive relationship to sex advice, self-love and life. Exceptional pop idol Rihanna has plenty to say as she continues to brighten the world with her astounding music, eccentric fashion taste and fearless outlook on life.
Born in Barbados in 1988 Rihanna’s childhood was affected by her father’s alcohol and drug addiction and parents’ divorce. She struggled with extreme headaches for several years and sang to escape from all the tension.
At the age of 16 Rihanna moved to the US to pursue her music. She signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and released her debut album Music of the Sun, which reached number 10 on the Billboard albums chart.
Another seven studio albums later, Rihanna has sold over 250 million records worldwide making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has won nine Grammy Awards, 13 American Music Awards and 12 Billboard Music Awards and managed six Guinness World Records. In 2019 she became the wealthiest female musician, with an estimated net worth of $600 million. In 2012 and 2018, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Aside from music, Rihanna is known for her involvement in humanitarian causes, entrepreneurial ventures, and the fashion industry. She is the founder of non-profit organisation Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH. Rihanna has also ventured into acting, appearing in major roles in Battleship, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Ocean’s 8. The star has always stuck to her Barbadian roots, appointed ambassador of education, tourism, and investment by the Government of Barbados in 2018.
If there’s anything she’s proven to the whole wide world, it’s her ability to succeed. Rihanna fan or not, these awe-inspiring quotes are going to leave you with the ambition and determination you need to transform your dreams into reality. Regardless of your current situation or the size of your vision.
1. Hurt me with the truth. Don’t comfort me with a lie.
2. You may never be good enough for everybody, but you will always be the best for somebody.
3. It’s nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.
4. It’s only up from here, no downward spiral.
5. People gonna talk whether you doing good or bad.
6. I stand up for what I believe in, and a lot of the time that can be against people’s opinions.
7. Visions in my mind of the day that we met. You showed me things that I’ll never forget.
8. I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar, and I get bored really, really quickly.
9. If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.
10. Let go of the things that make you feel dead! Life is worth living!
11. 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.
12. Because tomorrow I’m still going to be the same person. I’m still going to do what I want to do.
13. 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.
14. The minute you learn to love yourself you won’t want to be anyone else.
15. So I surrender, to every word you whisper. Every door you enter, I will let you in.
16. 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.
17. What started out as a simple altercation, turned into a really sticky situation?
18. Don’t hide from who you are.
19. I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
20. I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
21. I never play the victim, I’d rather be the stalker.
22. 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.
23. I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.
24. I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
25. There’s nothing that I say ‘I have to make this decision’. We all make our decisions together. I’m new to this industry and these are people who have experienced it and been here and seen it all.
26. Nobody can understand what you’re feeling unless they burn the way you burned.
27. I lick the gun when I’m done ’cause I know that revenge is sweet.
28. 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.
29. I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
30. 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.
31. The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.
32. Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
33. My fans like my flaws and imperfections, and that I’m rebellious.
34. Sure, you wish you did some things differently. But there is no sense in becoming burdened with regret over things you have no power to change.
35. Don’t even recognize the ways you hurt me, do you? It’s going to take a miracle to bring me back and you’re the one to blame.
36. It’s tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.
37. When we first met, I never felt something so strong. You were like my lover and my best friend all wrapped into one with a ribbon on it.
38. When it’s over and it’s gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.
39. I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them. But I do not swim with sharks … sharks swim with sharks.
40. You almost feel ashamed, that someone could be that important that without them, you feel like nothing.
41. And I’ll never give myself to another the way I gave it to you.
42. I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think.
43. I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
44. I don’t do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.
45. This fragrance is about my passion for individuality being expressive and empowering – but also emotional and intriguing.
46. 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.
47. And all of a sudden, you went and left. I didn’t know how to follow. It’s like a shock that spun me around and now my heart’s dead. I feel so empty and hollow.
48. Settling is the worst feeling in the world.
49. My knees on the ground, dear father, don’t let me break, please make me stronger.
50. I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions.
51. When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.