Empowering Life Quotes for Women: A Collection of Inspiration

"The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves."

- Barbara Corcoran

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

- Golda Meir

"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

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Amazing things happen when women help other women."

- Kasia Gospos

"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."

- Susan B. Anthony

"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.

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”"

- Clare Boothe Luce

"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

"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

"Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses."

- Madame Marie du Deffand

"The king may rule the kingdom, but it’s the queen who moves the board."

- D.M. Timney

"Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out."

- Anita Roddick

"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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic."

- Rosalind Russell

"She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings."

- Ariana Dancu

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back."

- Edna Gardner Whyte

"I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Melinda Gates

"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

"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

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

"I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!"

- Gabby Douglas

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Ashley Rickards

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

"And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more."

- Erica Jong

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go."

- Sheila Murray Bethel

"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

"I am a woman with thoughts and questions and sh*t to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will."

- Amy Schumer

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"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

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are."

- Melissa Etheridge

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."

- Rosalynn Carter

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

- Mother Theresa

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass."

- Maya Angelou

"I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all."

- Coco Chanel

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

- Gloria Steinem

"Women must try to do as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided."

- Hillary Clinton

"When anyone tells me I can’t do anything … I’m just not listening anymore."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Charlotte Whitton

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

- Coco Chanel

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Melinda Gates

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more."

- Erica Jong

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mae West

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Sarah Blakely

"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J.K. Rowling

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"I used to walk down the street like I was a superstar… I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be — and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth."

- Lady Gaga

"I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water-slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want."

- Madonna

"Expect the unexpected, and whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Berry

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want."

- Madonna

"It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine."

- Byron Katie

"Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic self. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world."

- Arlene Rankin

"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

"Be the type of girl that climbs the ladder wrong by wrong."

- Mae West

"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you."

- Heidi Johnson

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions."

- Catherine Cook

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine."

- Byron Katie

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

- Ann Richards

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

- Al Anon

"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."

- Nick Cannon

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

- Rhonda Hansome

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

- Al Anon

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

- Reba McEntire

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

"When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier."