100 Inspirational Appreciation Quotes for Women's Day: Celebrate Strength & Empowerment

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you."

- Viola Davis

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself."

- Hannah Gadsby

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know what you stand for and go for it."

- Venus Williams

"We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing. It’s time to take ownership in our success."

- Tory Burch

"The worst thing that we can do as women is not stand up for each other, and this is something we can practice every day, no matter where we are and what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself."

- Maya Angelou

"The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble."

- Serena Williams

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

- Ayn Rand

"Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I will always be the girl who believed she could make it to the moon, in a world that still debates whether girls should have an education and whether women should have reproductive rights."

- G.D. Anderson

"The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description."

- Steve Maraboli

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance."

- Verna Myers

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

- Coco Chanel

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book."

- Malala Yousafzai

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

- Mary Shelley

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."

- Susan B. Anthony

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer."

- Rihanna

"A strong woman understands that 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

"Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

- G.D. Anderson

"The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence."

- Blake Lively

"We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us."

- Madeleine Albright

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself."

- Anais Nin

"A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Girls should never be afraid to be smart."

- Emma Watson

"I have learned you are never too small to make a difference."

- Misty Copeland

"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

"A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Michelle Obama

"There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

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

- Melinda Gates

"Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you."

- Beyoncé

"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."

- Maya Angelou

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The question isn't who is going to let me — it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"There's nothing a man can do that I can't do better, and in heels."

- Ginger Rogers

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn, and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding — not simply be what is generally called a success."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."

- Rosa Parks

"Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good, that you can make the world a better place."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."

- Toni Morrison

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Where there is a woman, there is magic."

- Ntozake Shange

"A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants."

- Dolly Parton

"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

"I think realizing that you’re not alone, that you are standing with millions of your sisters around the world is vital."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I encourage women to step up. Don't wait for somebody to ask you."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Friends. Sisters. Mothers. Professors. When women affirm women, it unlocks our power. It gives us permission to shine brighter."

- Elaine Welteroth

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

- Helen Keller

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"Anything's possible if you've got have enough nerve."

- J.K. Rowling

"I'm grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life."

- Maya Angelou

"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."

- Mary Shelley

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities."

- Adrienne Rich

"The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence."

- Beyonce

"The best protection any woman can have...is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"What's the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself. It's the world that convinced her she did not."

- Rupi Kaur

"When girls are given the right tools to succeed, they can create incredible futures, not only for themselves but also for those around them."

- Meghan Markle

"Women are the real architects of society."

- Cher

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer."

- Rihanna

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Extremists have shown what frightens them most: A girl with a book."

- Malala Yousafzai

"When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else."

- Melinda Gates

"Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong; it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

- G. D. Anderson

"I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life."

- Jane Goodall

"One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!"

- Jane Goodall

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them...Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today."

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

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

- Swati Sharma

"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

"Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are."

- Emma Watson

"What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not."

- Rupi Kaur

"Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person."

- Isabel Allende

"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed, and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."

- Isabel Allende

"I am thankful for my struggle because, without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength."

- Alex Elle

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Do not ever sell yourself short."

- Jameela Jamil

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

- Beverly Sills

"If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself."

- Mindy Kaling

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't win' is you, and you don't have to listen."

- Margaret Fuller

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Angela Yee

"I don’t get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet."

- Emma Raducanu

"I don't really think about other people's opinions or expectations. The only ones I have are that of myself, to improve and get better."

- Greta Thunberg

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

- Nikita Gill

"She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking."

- Helen Keller

"Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world."

- Hillary Clinton

"There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels."

- Ginger Rogers

"She who overcomes her fears will truly be free."

- Edna Pontellier

"The challenge is not to be perfect… it’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"Where there is a woman there is magic."

- Ntozake Shange

"Women are the backbone of any society."

- Diane Mariechild

"Why be a star when you can make a constellation?"

- Octavia Butler

"To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can."

- Spanish Proverb

"After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I am enough.’"

- Maya Angelou

"I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading."

- Amy Poehler

"Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives."

- Brené Brown

"I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased."

- Lucille Ball

"Take the wisdoms of the women in this world and keep them at your side, always."

- Beanie Feldstein

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd; she is herself."

- Loretta Young

"I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead — that's where your future lies."

- Ann Landers

"I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet."

- Carolina Herrera

"Women are the real superheroes."

- Vanessa Paradis

"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."

- Margaret Mead

"Women are the heartbeat of humanity."

- DJ Cuppy

"Women are the glue that holds everything together."

- Jada Pinkett Smith

"If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together."

- George Eliot

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

- Lucille Ball

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"A woman should be like a single flower — not a whole bouquet."

- Anna Held

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"When the world tells you to shrink, expand."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else."

"A woman’s strength is not measured by how much she can handle before she breaks, but by how much she must handle after she is broken."

"A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her."