Top 70 Shakira Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Live your life to the fullest.”

— Shakira

2. “You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”

— Shakira

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3. “In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.”

— Shakira

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4. “Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.”

— Shakira

5. “There’s no better makeup than self-confidence.”

— Shakira

6. “You’re a song written by the hands of God.”

— Shakira

7. “My hips don’t lie and I don’t lie either!”

— Shakira

8. “I’m a perfectionist in recovery. I’m trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.”

— Shakira

9. “Nationalism is cured by traveling.”

— Shakira

10. “I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.”

— Shakira

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11. “It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.”

— Shakira

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12. “I’m not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.”

— Shakira

13. “I thank God that I’m a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.”

— Shakira

14. “I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.”

— Shakira

15. “We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...”

— Shakira

16. “A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.”

— Shakira

17. “I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.”

— Shakira

18. “Scars remind me of just how far that I’ve come.”

— Shakira

19. “It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.”

— Shakira

20. “My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.”

— Shakira

21. “Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.”

— Shakira

22. “If I could, I’d live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.”

— Shakira

23. “Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.”

— Shakira

24. “People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.”

— Shakira

25. “There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.”

— Shakira

26. “Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs.”

— Shakira

27. “You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.”

— Shakira

28. “I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.”

— Shakira

29. “I can be like a lioness when defending my people.”

— Shakira

30. “I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”

— Shakira

31. “I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.”

— Shakira

32. “I’m like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don’t sweat.”

— Shakira

33. “The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.”

— Shakira

34. “I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.”

— Shakira

35. “I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.”

— Shakira

36. “My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.”

— Shakira

37. “I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.”

— Shakira

38. “I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.”

— Shakira

39. “I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music.”

— Shakira

40. “My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.”

— Shakira

41. “We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they’re subject to by teachers and their own parents.”

— Shakira

42. “I’m more afraid of marriage than death.”

— Shakira

43. “If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.”

— Shakira

44. “The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, “What do you say now?””

— Shakira

45. “In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.”

— Shakira

46. “Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.”

— Shakira

47. “I am trying to make my accent so it won’t bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.”

— Shakira

48. “I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.”

— Shakira

49. “Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn’t want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.”

— Shakira

50. “I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.”

— Shakira