Empowerment Quotes

"The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers."

- Martin Firrell

"You’ll emerge so bright that the haters will be blinded. And darling, you’ll be the sun then, bright and beautiful, but they won’t be your sunflowers."

- Minahil

"I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too."

- Miranda Kerr

"Vacations are necessities, not luxuries."

- Linda Bloom

"I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food. They make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival."

- Alexander Babinets

"If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in."

- Reese Witherspoon

"If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. Women should feel free."

- Emma Watson

"Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

- Cher

"I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world."

- Beyoncé

"As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by."

- Madonna

"With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished."

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

"To all the little girls who are watching, 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

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

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

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"I urge everyone here and everyone who hears my voice to join me in telling the stories that aren’t told. To honor the girls, the women of color, who are murdered at disproportionate rates in this nation."

- Naomi Wadler

"Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it."

- Michelle Obama

"Never ever mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills before the onset of a hurricane."

- Nikita Gill

"I am a woman and I get to define what that means."

- Swati Sharma

"I can encourage the women who are striving to get their footing in the world to keep pushing and to express themselves."

- Angela Yee

"Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all."

- Nelson Mandela

"She is a sunflower - strong and bold, and true to herself."

"Sturdy your stem, open your petals wide, reach for the warmth, and feel life pulsing through your entire being, for you are a sunflower."

"Little girls are smarter than little boys."

"Sí se puede!"

"The Universe is always ready to provide more. The real question is, are you ready to receive it?"

"A lioness does not flinch from the hunt; she leads with strength and determination."