Empowerment Quotes

"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

- Joel Osteen

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they’re helping the company to be successful."

- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

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

- Ashley Rickards

"A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts."

- Nancy Rathburn

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."

- Margaret Sanger

"Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is."

- Anne Frank

"We realize the importance of our voices only when they are silenced."

- Malala Yousafzai

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backward and in high heels."

- Ann Richards

"We have to become the men we wanted to marry."

- Gloria Steinem

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half their inferior. Luckily, this is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

- Melinda Gates

"If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor."

- Al Anon

"Amazing things happen when women help other women."

- Kasia Gospos

"Every girl and every woman, has the potential to make this world a better place, and that potential lies in the act of thinking higher thoughts and feeling deeper things. When women and girls, everywhere, begin to see themselves as more than inanimate objects; but as beautiful beings capable of deep feelings and high thoughts, this has the capacity to create change all around. The kind of change that is for the better."

- C. JoyBell C.

"A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with."

- Ellen J. Barrier

"You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman."

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home."

- Rosalyn Sussman

"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband."

- Little Richard

"Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not."

- Reba McEntire

"We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever."

- Susan B. Anthony

"A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t."

- Rhonda Hansome

"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom."

- Osho

"Here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them."

"You are not your illness."