Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

— Madonna

2. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

— Madonna

3. “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

— Madonna

4. “Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”

— Madonna

5. “No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don’t wait for someone else.”

— Madonna

6. “Set your goals high and go far. Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today.”

— Madonna

7. “Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”

— Madonna

8. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

— Madonna

9. “If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

— Madonna

10. “If you want to change the world, change yourself.”

— Madonna

11. “The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.”

— Madonna

12. “The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.”

— Madonna

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13. “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself.”

— Madonna

14. “I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

— Madonna

15. “We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect.”

— Madonna

16. “Nothing really matters; love is all we need.”

— Madonna

17. “I don’t care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.”

— Madonna

18. “I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.”

— Madonna

19. “You’re frozen when your heart’s not open.”

— Madonna

20. “You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?”

— Madonna

21. “I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too. ”

— Madonna

22. “Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say ‘no’”

— Madonna

23. “We are living in a material world and I’m a material girl.”

— Madonna

24. “When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.”

— Madonna

25. “There’s no greater power than the power of good-bye.”

— Madonna

26. “I’ll rest when I’m dead. I’m hungry and life is short!”

— Madonna

27. “If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.”

— Madonna

28. “Don’t just stand there let’s get to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.”

— Madonna

29. “Happiness lies in your own hand.”

— Madonna

30. “I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that’s constantly changing shape.”

— Madonna

31. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

— Madonna

32. “Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.”

— Madonna

33. “I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.”

— Madonna

34. “This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people’s approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.”

— Madonna

35. “Its boring not to take risks.”

— Madonna

36. “If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.”

— Madonna

37. “Never forget to dream.”

— Madonna

38. “Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can’t rush. You can’t skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can’t judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.”

— Madonna

39. “Deep in my heart I’m concealing things that I’m longing to say. Scared to confess what I’m feeling – frightened you’ll slip away.”

— Madonna

40. “I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist.”

— Madonna

41. “I don’t give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

— Madonna

42. “I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.”

— Madonna

43. “Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.”

— Madonna

44. “Don’t go for second best. Put your love to the test.”

— Madonna

45. “I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”

— Madonna

46. “Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why.”

— Madonna

47. “One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can’t blame other people for things that happened to you.”

— Madonna

48. “If it’s bitter at the start, then it’s sweeter in the end.”

— Madonna

49. “A good relationship is a competition of generosity.”

— Madonna

50. “I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”

— Madonna