Empowerment Quotes

"If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

"When I feel a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller."

- Dolly Parton

"Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons."

- Malala Yousafzai

"We must tell girls their voices are important."

- Malala Yousafzai

"All we are asking is for girls to be able to go to school, for women to be safer... we are not asking for a privilege, these are like basic human rights."

- Malala Yousafzai

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward."

- Sting

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

- Bono

"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

- Billy Joel

"Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move."

- Tony Robbins

"Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered."

- Michelle Obama

"That’s a great motto for all of us — find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."

- Barack Obama

"It is you, the young and fearless at heart, the most diverse and educated generation in our history, who the nation is waiting to follow."

- Barack Obama

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."

- Betty Reese

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

- Muhammad Ali

"I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is."

- Ryan Gosling

"If I must give any of you advice it would be say yes. Say yes, and create your own destiny."

- Maya Rudolph

"Go make your big beautiful dent, and as you do so come down on the side of boldness. If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered."

- Michelle Obama

"It is absolutely still possible to make a difference."

- Michelle Obama

"You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman."

- Tyra Banks

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."

- Michelle Obama

"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."

- Melinda Gates

"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

- Tom Brokaw

"Don’t let negative, toxic, insecure people drag you down to their level."

""I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.""