Rihanna is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. She is one of the most successful and influential contemporary recording artists, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. She has won nine Grammy Awards, thirteen American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and six Guinness World Records. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rihanna on success, love, life.
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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.
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.
I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.
I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
We found love in a hopeless place.
Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.
Love isn't complicated, people are.
My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.
Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
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Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes. — Rihanna
Love isn't complicated, people are. — Rihanna
My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what. — Rihanna
You will never be stylish if you don't take risks. — Rihanna
Rihanna Short Quotes
I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.
God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.
You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.
I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.
When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going
I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.
Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.
When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.
Rihanna Quotes About Love
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart. — Rihanna
Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that. — Rihanna
I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny. — Rihanna
Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
Rihanna Quotes About Life
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. — Rihanna
Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it. — Rihanna
I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed? — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
Nothing in life
comes easy.
Everything
comes with
a sacrifice — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me. — Rihanna
I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me. — Rihanna
Rihanna Quotes About Fashion
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. — Rihanna
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
When it comes to fashion, I like to see individuality. — Rihanna
Rihanna Quotes About Beauty
find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy. — Rihanna
While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves. — Rihanna
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!' — Rihanna
Rihanna Quotes About People
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. — Rihanna
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
If you want to do something for Jah, then dont associate with people who do nothing — Rihanna
I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it. — Rihanna
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit. — Rihanna
People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good. — Rihanna
My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt. — Rihanna
Rihanna Quotes About Music
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. — Rihanna
Music is in my DNA! — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I always listen to music no matter what I'm doing. Music is definitely always something that drives the mood and creating and helps you lock that in and escape to a whole other world. — Rihanna
Rihanna Famous Quotes And Sayings
Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes. — Rihanna
Love isn't complicated, people are. — Rihanna
My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week! — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I have several videos on my phone that I’ve never released. Having dance parties in our car, don’t be jealous! — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works. — Rihanna
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.' — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
If I'm wearing a top, I don't wear a bra. If I'm wearing a bra, I just wear a bra. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes. — Rihanna
I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables! — Rihanna
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines. — Rihanna
Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park. — Rihanna
I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool. — Rihanna
They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control. — Rihanna
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! — Rihanna
The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone — Rihanna
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. — Rihanna
Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about. — Rihanna
I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days. — Rihanna
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! — Rihanna
I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys. — Rihanna
I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past. — Rihanna
I have too many clothes, I have too many options. — Rihanna
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. — Rihanna
Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror. — Rihanna
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 — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else. — Rihanna
Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit. — Rihanna
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. — Rihanna
Never a failure,always a lesson. — Rihanna
My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger. — Rihanna
I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step. — Rihanna
Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win — Rihanna
I don't have anything to hide. — Rihanna
Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy. — Rihanna
It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough. — Rihanna
I like to be creative. — Rihanna
I am happy and I'm single. — Rihanna
It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that — Rihanna
Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone. — Rihanna
Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes. — Rihanna
Life Lessons by Rihanna
Rihanna has shown that hard work, dedication, and perseverance are key to achieving success.
She has also demonstrated the importance of staying true to yourself and not compromising your values in order to fit in.
Additionally, Rihanna has demonstrated the power of using your platform to speak out on social issues and advocate for change.
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