90+ Best Empowering Quotes To Inspire All Of Us

Supriya Jain
Dec 12, 2023 By Supriya Jain
Originally Published on Feb 22, 2021
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Empowerment means making someone feel stronger and confident so that they can control their life in better ways.

You can draw inspiration from anyone and use it to empower yourself in life for hard work. Empowering quotes by famous personalities are a source of motivation in our lives.

All of us somewhere in time during our lives, be it work or home, go through a rough phase and in times of rough phase, we need help. What all we need is some inspiration and empowerment to pass that phase easily and to go on with the hard work.

Read on for some empowering quotes that will change your approach towards life and go for greater achievements.

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Women Empowering Women Quotes

Whether at work or in normal life, women empowerment is important in society. Here are some of the best empowering quotes to help you aspire for leadership role in your life and go for excellence without any fear of failure and become the type of individual that you want to be.

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1. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

- Estée Lauder.

2. “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”

- Julia Child.

3. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

- Arianna Huffington.

4. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”

- Marissa Mayer.

5. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

- Coco Chanel.

6. “No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.”

- Estée Lauder.

7. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

- Julia Child.

8. "The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

9. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

- Theodore Roosevelt.

10. “Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I'll try again tomorrow.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher.

11. “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

- Steve Maraboli.

12. “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”

- Steve Maraboli.

13. “You just can’t let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.”

- Idowu Koyenikan.

Women Empowerment Quotes

There are many strong woman quotes on the internet by many eminent personalities such as Emma Watson, Marianne Williamson and more. Here we have selected and brought some empowering quotes for women that will help you in many ways to get on the road to success.

14. “Focus on your skills, whether it’s working in a kitchen, working on a trading floor, running a household. You can go do anything.”

- Stacey Cunningham.

15. “It’s not about how many times you get rejected or fall down or are beaten up, it’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”

- Lady Gaga.

16. “Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

17. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”

- Ruth Gordo.

18. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”

- Maya Angelou.

19. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

- Coco Chanel.

20. “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”

- Melinda Gates.

21. “We need woman at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure woman’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”

- Sheryl Sandberg.

22. “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

- Helen Keller.

23. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

- Amelia Earhart.

24. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life--to be happy--it’s all that matters.”

- Audrey Hepburn.

25. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

- Florence Nightingale.

26. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

- Alice Walker.

27. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

- Emily Dickinson.

28. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

- Oprah Winfrey.

29. “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”

- Sarah Louise Delany.

30. “If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.”

- Betty Eadie.

31. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”

- Elizabeth Candy Stanton.

32. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”

- Coco Chanel.

33. “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”

- Julia Child.

34. “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”

- Hillary Clinton.

35. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

- Amelia Earhart.

36. “The biggest barrier for women is the thought that they can’t have it all.”

- Cathy Engelbert.

Empowering Women Quotes For Girls

Here are some empowering quotes for girls that will make you motivated and inspired to achieve your goals by waking your inner strength to walk on the road to success.

37. “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.”

- Tory Burch.

38. “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

- Irina Dunn.

39. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

40. “More than ever, I am aware of the need to support and celebrate each other. I like to believe I am part of a global support group network of 3.4 billion. Imagine: if you can fall back on the 3.5 billion sisters, and the many good men who are with us, what could we possibly not achieve?”

- Nicole Kidman.

41. “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”

- Hillary Clinton.

42. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”

- Arianna Huffington.

43. “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

44. “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

- Tina Fey.

45. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.”

- Billie Jean King.

46. “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone.

Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.”

- Erin McKean.

Inspirational Quotes For Inner Strength

Dreams come true when you are inspired and empowered. Here are some empowering quotes for him and inspiring quotes for her to be able to handle every matter.

47. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

- Charlotte Brontë.

48. “Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”

- Gloria Steinem.

49. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

- Rumi.

50. “It took a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it, I’m not going to be silent.”

- Madeleine Albright.

51. “Most of us are totally unaware that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstances of our life.”

- Neville.

52. “The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”

- Ralph Charell.

53. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts; the better will be his world and the world at large.”

- Confucius.

54. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

- Oprah Winfrey.

55. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

- James Allen.

56. “Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have: it depends solely upon what you think.”

- Dale Carnegie.

57. “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

- Plato.

58. “Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

- George Bernard Shaw.

59. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.”

- Isabel Allende.

60. “If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.”

- Les Brown.

61. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”

- George Eliot.

62. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”

- Harvey Fierstein.

63. “The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.”

- Ashley Rickards.

64. “Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

- Langston Hughes.

65. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

- Deepak Chopra.

66. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

67. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

68. “Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

69. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

- Alice Walker.

70. “Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.”

- Norman Vincent Peale.

71. “And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.”

- Mark Anthony.

72. “The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.”

- Amy Tenney.

73. “Beautiful people are not always good but good people are always beautiful.”

- Imam Ali.

74. “Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

- Marilyn Monroe.

75. “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”

- Simone De Beauvoir.

76. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”

- Judy Garland.

77. “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.”

- Malala Yousafzai.

78. “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.”

- Maya Angelou.

79. “Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”

- Neil Gaiman.

80. “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”

- Bethany Hamilton.

81. “What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. Its okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.”

- Roy T. Bennett.

82. “Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

- Albert Einstein.

83. “You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”

- Elizabeth Taylor.

84. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

85. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

- Mary Anne Radmacher.

86. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

- Thomas A. Edison.

87. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

- Dale Carnegie.

88. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”

- George Whitefield.

89. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”

- Nicole Kidman.

90. “Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.”

- Gordon B. Hinkley.

91. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

- Maya Angelou.

92. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

- Ayn Rand.

93. “No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.”

- Estée Lauder.

94. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

- Jane Goodall.

95. “There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

- Jane Austen.

96. “You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.”

- Angela Merkel.

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Written by Supriya Jain

Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration specializing in Marketing

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Supriya JainBachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration specializing in Marketing

As a skilled member of the Kidadl team, Shruti brings extensive experience and expertise in professional content writing. With a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Punjab University and an MBA in Business Administration from IMT Nagpur, Shruti has worked in diverse roles such as sales intern, content writer, executive trainee, and business development consultant. Her exceptional writing skills cover a wide range of areas, including SOP, SEO, B2B/B2C, and academic content.

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