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Haters Quotes

By Alan Reiner | Jul 18, 2024 | 160 quotes

Dealing with haters is a modern rite of passage, especially online. These quotes take a confident, sometimes humorous stance on criticism, jealousy, and the strange compliment of having people invested enough to dislike you.

Use them for bold social media captions, pep talks before a big move, or journal entries when you need to shake off negativity. Have a look through and pick your favourite.

  1. “When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I'm a fierce queen - and they know it, too.”

    Alyssa Edwards
  2. “Haters are fans in denial.”

    Adam Rippon
  3. “If you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.”

    Molly Qerim
  4. “Sometimes your haters are your biggest motivators.”

    Brooks Koepka
  5. “When you have haters, you're doing something right.”

    Kylie Bunbury
  6. “Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”

    Tom Hiddleston
  7. “I don't let the haters get their way.”

    JoJo Siwa
  8. “I use my haters as my motivators.”

    Kate Gosselin
  9. “You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.”

    Stephen A. Smith
  10. “You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.”

    Bruno Mars
  11. “Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.”

    Chris Brown
  12. “When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.”

    Kim Kardashian
  13. “Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.”

    Nick Jonas
  14. “When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.”

    Sir Mix-a-Lot
  15. “Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.”

    Andrew Shaffer
  16. “I have to say I thank the haters that motivate me and push me to be my best.”

    Porsha Williams
  17. “The haters will always hate.”

    Lance Stroll
  18. “No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.”

    Tim Tebow
  19. “I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.”

    R. Kelly
  20. “There are always going to be haters.”

    Alan Walker
  21. “I deal with haters on a daily basis.”

    Kesha
  22. “I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.”

    Christina Milian
  23. “You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.”

    Wendy Kopp
  24. “The haters always scream the loudest.”

    Tucker Max
  25. “Everybody on top has a ton of haters.”

    Diamond Dallas Page
  26. “I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.”

    Kreayshawn
  27. “If you don't have haters, you're not doing anything.”

    Peaches
  28. “I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.”

    Michelle Obama
  29. “My haters is bigger than life.”

    Young Dolph
  30. “There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.”

    Avicii
  31. “Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it…. There's gonna be haters.”

    Justin Bieber
  32. “I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.”

    Paula Deen
  33. “The haters want to hate. They want to talk about this and talk about that. We don't even acknowledge it.”

    Redfoo
  34. “Now my haters are very high class people, so I feel like I've moved up.”

    GloZell
  35. “I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important.”

    Ricky Gervais
  36. “Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.”

    Jazz Jennings
  37. “Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.”

    Eden Ahbez
  38. “Everybody has haters and lovers. That's what life is all about.”

    Vitor Belfort
  39. “Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.”

    Walker Percy
  40. “You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers.”

    Nicole Polizzi
  41. “You're going to have haters no matter what you do.”

    Eric Bischoff
  42. “Haters will be haters, you have got to acknowledge them and move on as the ratio of love to hate is too high.”

    Badshah
  43. “When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.”

    Jenni Rivera
  44. “Angry fans, it's part of - well look, if you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.”

    David Faustino
  45. “I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.”

    Julie Plec
  46. “Man, I got to say I love my haters because they challenge myself… it challenges me. It challenges me to be better. It challenges me to show who I am and that I deserve to be who I am.”

    Cris Cyborg
  47. “I'm sure there are some haters out there, but I just put my blinders on.”

    Lucas Till
  48. “I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.”

    Rozonda Thomas
  49. “Everybody's got haters, but your city's always behind you. It's only right to give back.”

    Stefon Diggs
  50. “The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.”

    Andy Cohen
  51. “People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.”

    Alessia Cara
  52. “There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.”

    Michael Sam
  53. “The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.”

    Muhammad Ali
  54. “I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.”

    Kyle Busch
  55. “My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.”

    Joel Madden
  56. “When I came into the UFC, even though I had a lot of hype behind me, there were a lot of haters and criticism.”

    Mackenzie Dern
  57. “I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.”

    Chris Lilley
  58. “When you lose, people that you think aren't going to come at you, will come at you, because they're haters.”

    Matt Serra
  59. “From Snoop, I've learned quite a bit. I learned that sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut. It's a long story, but definitely to sometimes keep my mouth shut. I also learned to always ignore the haters.”

    Chanel West Coast
  60. “I have haters. I have so many haters.”

    Kesha
  61. “The haters can go to any extent to get the attention and I'm used to trolling.”

    Sara Khan
  62. “I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.”

    Jennifer Lopez
  63. “I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.”

    Suge Knight
  64. “As soon as you are a woman with an opinion, and they don't like it, the haters will come out in full force.”

    Molly Qerim
  65. “My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I'm in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I'm going to try to get him out of there. If I'm in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I'm going to look for that. I don't feel the need to prove the haters wrong.”

    Tyron Woodley
  66. “I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.”

    Dane Cook
  67. “When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.”

    Paulo Coelho
  68. “When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right… As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.”

    Nikki Bella
  69. “I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.”

    Nick Jonas
  70. “You know there's a lot of haters out there that are jealous. We know how hard we work. We don't pay attention to it. If you did you'd lose your mind.”

    Jonathan Cheban
  71. “It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.”

    Rita Dove
  72. “There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.”

    Rob Manuel
  73. “There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.”

    Lance Stroll
  74. “The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind.”

    Ainsley Earhardt
  75. “Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.”

    Kesha
  76. “I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.”

    Carrie Underwood
  77. “Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.”

    Tina Brown
  78. “I've learned that people that question you are going to question you, the haters are going to hate you.”

    Tom Izzo
  79. “I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to… continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.”

    Austin Rivers
  80. “Haters will always hate.”

    Patrice Evra
  81. “We should have a banquet on the day haters die.”

    Ovadia Yosef
  82. “Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.”

    Carroll O'Connor
  83. “Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.”

    Kathleen Hanna
  84. “I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.”

    Vanessa Hudgens
  85. “People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.”

    Chrisette Michele
  86. “Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.”

    Ezra Koenig
  87. “I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.”

    Ryan Lochte
  88. “If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”

    Dane Cook
  89. “I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.”

    Alana Blanchard
  90. “Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off Laguna, being 19 years old, and thrown into this odd, ridiculous spotlight, wasn't for me. There have always been haters, and people don't want to give you a chance or the benefit of the doubt, but this show gave me an opportunity.”

    Stephen Colletti
  91. “The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.”

    Steve Aoki
  92. “The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself… should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with?”

    Steve Aoki
  93. “I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don't just want to be, 'He dresses cool' or 'He dresses crazy.' You're going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.”

    Rickie Fowler
  94. “Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.”

    Dana Brunetti
  95. “Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.”

    Kurt Eichenwald
  96. “Everybody has haters.”

    Jillian Michaels
  97. “There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him.”

    Ty Dolla Sign
  98. “For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'”

    Kevin Bacon
  99. “My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. People one-up you, stay true to yourself.”

    Christina Grimmie
  100. “There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.”

    Divyanka Tripathi
  101. “These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.”

    Divyanka Tripathi
  102. “I've been blessed; I've been getting so many amazing opportunities because of the UFC. I know there are going to be haters no matter how successful I am, and I just have to be thankful for all the blessings that I have because all of it can be over before you know it.”

    Paige VanZant
  103. “They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is another reason I'm inspired to stay.”

    Jamila Woods
  104. “There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way more haters. It's definitely a great city to be from. But it's not really a lot of people that come out of there. So when you, like, make it out of Philadelphia, everywhere else is easy.”

    Lil Uzi Vert
  105. “Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.”

    Quavo
  106. “There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.”

    Zacky Vengeance
  107. “'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.”

    Jesse Andrews
  108. “I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'”

    Jesse Andrews
  109. “Haters gonna be haters, and there's nothing we can do about that.”

    Tina Knowles
  110. “Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.”

    Rob Liefeld
  111. “I don't court haters. I don't thrive on people not liking things that I do. I treat people the way I want to be treated.”

    Josh Gondelman
  112. “We have literally millions and millions of fans. I mean, even Kendall and Kylie have 50 million followers on Instagram - apiece. That's a hundred million people you have somehow touched emotionally, enough to follow you on a social-media platform. And I think with that also comes, you know, haters.”

    Kris Jenner
  113. “On every single picture on my Instagram page, you'll find a negative comment. My supporters will normally stand up to that hateful person, and then it will become a big argument, and it's just a lot. I try to tell myself not to listen to the haters, and I try not to read the comments because it's not worth it.”

    Jazz Jennings
  114. “For all you Joe Besser haters who claim that he was the worst Stooge, that's not true - Curly Joe DeRita was the worst stooge. Joe Besser was the second worst.”

    Matt Besser
  115. “Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that are going to hurt you. It's not going to make any sense. Just know that it's out there and that it's really easy to just press 'delete.'”

    Scott Borchetta
  116. “I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  117. “With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  118. “I think for me, the best comedy comes from when something feels real and genuine, so even though Miranda is this wacky character, there is a real vulnerability to her that we finally get to show in 'Haters Back Off,' and I think that's what makes this comedy rich and more fulfilling, at least for me.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  119. “Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  120. “Miranda was built by her haters.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  121. “I would do whatever the haters said they didn't like. They'd say, 'I don't like your lipstick,' so I'd put on more.”

    Colleen Ballinger
  122. “No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.”

    Andrew Shaffer
  123. “Treat haters in your online spaces just the same as you would in the real world. If they're not respectful to you and your customers, kick them out.”

    Andrew Shaffer
  124. “I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.”

    Bobby Lashley
  125. “Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.”

    Karrueche Tran
  126. “Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.”

    Max Joseph
  127. “All those haters, they don't understand my music. It's very unique. And I don't blame them. Hate my music. But my real cult fanbase, they like the music.”

    Lil Xan
  128. “The fact is I'm always going to have naysayers. You're always going to have haters. It really doesn't bother me because I just rise above it.”

    The Miz
  129. “Obviously I'm going to have haters.”

    Cris Cyborg
  130. “Honestly, it's hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!”

    JoJo Siwa
  131. “I feel like I have my loved ones, but I have a lot of haters, too.”

    Kane Brown
  132. “To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.”

    Prodigy
  133. “I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!”

    Christine and the Queens
  134. “I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.”

    Roy Nelson
  135. “There are too many haters.”

    Joe Hart
  136. “I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.”

    Molly Qerim
  137. “I had to deal with so many haters.”

    Stephon Marbury
  138. “A lot of haters been downing me but I never gave up and that's what the fans love.”

    Jay Rock
  139. “I think it's so cool to just prove haters wrong. All you have to do is go out there and just fight.”

    Enes Kanter
  140. “I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.”

    Ariel Helwani
  141. “There are always going to be your supporters, and then there are going to be haters. I kind of laugh at them.”

    Zack Steffen
  142. “Caramelized white chocolate is a mind-blowingly simple and delicious technique that will silence all the alleged white-chocolate haters out there.”

    Claire Saffitz
  143. “Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.”

    Shannon Briggs
  144. “This is a big game, and there are a lot of haters in the game. But don't hate me, hate the game.”

    Shannon Briggs
  145. “People know I'm a Jake Paul guy. I respect people who take over the Internet, and this guy has got maybe more haters than I do, which I also love.”

    Dave Portnoy
  146. “You ain't gonna know about me by talking about the past. Haters care about that. My fans, they care about where I'm going.”

    Riff Raff
  147. “I went through a difficult time, gaining 24 pounds in one month. A few haters attacked me online for how I looked, even though the majority of my fans were supportive. Those were the ones that kept me going.”

    Karol G
  148. “Holzhauer Haters' is pretty catchy, but I have not encountered too many haters. I'm sure they are out there, but I don't spend my free time looking up every person's opinion of James Holzhauer.”

    James Holzhauer
  149. “To my haters: I don't have anything to say to you; you can see how far I've gotten myself. To those who supported me: Thank you, and I will never stop trying to repay you for all of the things you do for me every day.”

    Bea Miller
  150. “I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.”

    Rashad Evans
  151. “I had a lot of haters at school, which is a scar I still have.”

    Dennis Lloyd
  152. “I don't read anything. I don't read the press. I've always valued my supporters and my haters are supporters in disguise. That's just the way it is. I run a couple of social media accounts and you can't help but look at comments every now and then.”

    Beauden Barrett
  153. “Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I'm doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.”

    Gael Monfils
  154. “Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.”

    Grayson Allen
  155. “I have an amazing fan base. I also have an amazing amount of haters: believe who don't believe, people who don't want me to succeed. I don't really mind having those people around. If anything it's actually a good thing for me because it keeps me in the gym, keeps me working hard - knowing there are people out there who don't want me to succeed.”

    Chris Eubank Jr
  156. “I don't care what haters think - I'm proud to not stay in Trump hotels.”

    Jabari Parker
  157. “With social media, some people are supportive and there are some haters and people who make fake accounts. It's out of my control.”

    Aidan Gallagher
  158. “In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it's time, give the haters no time to hate until it's too late.”

    Eddie Griffin
  159. “One lesson I learned with Pomplamoose is that there will always be haters. Part of achieving some level of success is learning to tune out the rage.”

    Jack Conte
  160. “There's Mahomes haters and I just don't understand it. I know it's just because he's so good.”

    Heidi Gardner

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