Empowerment Quotes

"So, I say to you, forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this."

- Chantal Sutherland

"Good luck needs no explanation."

- Shirley Temple

"Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out."

- Deb Caletti

"I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead."

- Erick Barrondo

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"Boss up and change your life / You can have it all, no sacrifice"

- Lizzo

"There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you."

- Kamala Harris

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football."

- Jen Welter

"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world."

- Melinda Gates

"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right."

- Simon Mainwaring

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"Everyone has inside of him 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

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"Sending you a big hug and all the fortune in the world. You're going to do amazing things!"

"Sending you all my positive energy and the best of fortune as you embark on this new chapter."

"Sending you all the positive vibes and good fortune wishes. You deserve nothing but the best!"

"Just because you’re on a budget doesn’t mean you have to look cheap."