Empowering Inspirational Quotes About Her: A Collection of Wisdom

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."

- Coco Chanel

"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing, watch you smile while you are sleeping, while you’re far away and dreaming."

- Aerosmith

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

- A. A. Milne

"I've realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn't all we need—love is all there is."

- Morgan Matson

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

- Amelia Earhart

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

- The Fault in Our Stars

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body."

- Pablo Neruda

"I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am."

- Ingrid Michaelson

"Am I good enough? Yes, I am."

- Michelle Obama

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Maya Angelou

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."

- Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

"I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when I’m by your side."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

- W.S. Merwin

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

- Charles Dickens

"My heart is and always will be yours."

- Jane Austen

"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."

- Cassandra Clare

"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."

- Valerie Lombardo

"And in her smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars."

- Beth Revis

"You are the best thing that's ever been mine."

- Taylor Swift

"Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

- Hannah Arendt

"I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life."

- Ian McEwan

"I would find you in any lifetime."

- Kanye West

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"All of me loves all of you."

- John Legend, "All of Me"

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Reba McEntire

"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Al Anon

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible."

- Ariana Dancu

"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

"You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people."

- Marsha Evans

"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

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

- Rosalind Russell

"In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems."

- Rumi

"I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years."

- Christina Perri

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."

- Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world."

- Bill Wilson

"She wraps herself in strength, carries herself with confidence, and works hard, strengthening her arms for the task at hand."

- Proverbs 31:16-17

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

- Rhonda Hansome

"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."

- Leo Christopher

"My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul."

- Boris Kodjoe

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge."

- Margaret Sanger

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- JRR Tolkien

"Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do."

- Edna Gardner Whyte

"I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea."

- Nicholas Sparks

"My mother told me that fear was not an option. I was always told that women are stronger, so I believed it."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

- Pablo Neruda

"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

"Love her but leave her wild."

- Atticus

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- e.e. cummings

"Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"I am yours, don't give myself back to me."

- Rumi

"Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you."

- Caroline Myss

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

- Pablo Coelho

"I love you and that's the beginning and end of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."

- T. Tolis

"I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you."

- Roy Croft

"Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be!"

- Anne Frank

"I could start fires with what I feel for you."

- David Ramirez

"You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had."

- Nicholas Sparks

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

- Judy Garland

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

- Ayn Rand

"Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth."

- Eleanor Di Guillo

"Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."

- Rosemonde Gerard

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good."

- Charlotte Whitton

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Madame Marie du Deffand

"Loving you was never an option. It was a necessity."

- Truth Devour

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

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you."

- Ben Folds, "The Luckiest"

"Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again."

- The Cure

"A strong woman builds her own world."

- Ellen J. Barrier

"A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection."

- Nancy Rathburn

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."

- Angelita Lim

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed."

- Clare Boothe Luce

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

- Herman Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

"Every girl and every woman has the potential to make this world a better place."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation."

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow."

- Edmond Rostand

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."

- Pablo Neruda

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to tell you I love you."

- DeAnna Anderson

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

- Melinda French Gates

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have found the one whom my soul loves."

- Song of Solomon 3:4

"In your smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars."

- Beth Revis

"You are the poem I never knew how to write, and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell."

- Tyler Knott Gregson

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"You have a place in my heart no one else could have."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

- Haruki Murakami

"What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters."

- Kamala Harris

"You are my today and all my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"I saw that you were imperfect yet perfect, and fell in love."

- Angelita Lim

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake."

- Scott Adams

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform."

- Diane Mariechild

"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 world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will."

- Amy Tenney

"Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."

- Marge Piercy

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"Strong women don’t play the victim. Don’t make themselves look pitiful and don’t point fingers. They stand and they deal."

- Mandy Hale

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

"Figure out who are you separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else."

- Angelina Jolie

"Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you."

- Michelle Obama

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong, I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must know that you can do this. You are strong. And you will make it. Just hang on and keep believing in yourself, always."

- Heather A. Stillufsen

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

- Carly Simon

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

- Ayn Rand

"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on."

- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you."

- Hillary Clinton

"Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes."

- Nancy Pelosi

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

- Catherine Cook

"Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention."

- Pink

"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

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

- Madonna

"I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one."

- Calamity Jane

"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

"And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears."

- Mark Anthony

"She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear."

- Atticus

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ally Carter

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Byron Katie

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

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

- Nat King Cole

"It was always you."

- Maroon 5, "It Was Always You"

"To me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

"It's like my life isn't even real to me unless you're there and you're in it and I'm sharing it with you."

- Gilmore Girls

"I love you more than coffee, but please don't make me prove it."

- Elizabeth Evans

"You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way."

"You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me."

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

"Never apologize for being a powerful woman."

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

- Unknown

"I have loved you all my life; it has just taken me this long to find you."

"I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."

"Declare over yourself: ‘God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.’"

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day."

"God is within her, she will not fall."

"She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future."

"By the grace of God, I am what I am."

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

"Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter, you are loved, you are worthy, you are magical."

"I love you not because of anything you have, but because of something that I feel when I’m near you."

"I found my soulmate, I found my one true love, I found my one and only forever and always, I found that in you."

"You are the reason I wake up with a smile every morning. You are the secret to my peaceful nights."

"Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you."

"I am so totally, completely, overwhelmingly, eye-poppingly, life-changingly, spectacularly, passionately deliciously in love with you."

"You're the first thing I think of when I wake up and my last thought before I go to sleep."

"I wish I could explain your eyes, and how the sound of your voice gives me butterflies. How your smile makes my heart skip a beat and how every time I'm with you, I feel so complete."

"My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never."

"I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines a little brighter, and life is so much sweeter."

"You must be made of stardust because every little thing you do is magical."

"Being with you is like having every single one of my wishes come true."

"Your love is all I need to feel complete."

"You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you."

"I want to be the reason behind your smile because surely you are the reason behind mine."

"You are the peanut to my butter, the star to my burst, the pop to my tart, the fruit to my loop, the milk to my cookie, the ice to my cream, the ketchup to my fries, the key to my heart."

"You're my person. You will always be my person."

"I choose you. Over and over again, without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

"I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

"You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning."

"I've fallen in love many times… but always with you."

"When I look at you and I'm listening to you, I know that I'm home."

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

"You are my paradise and I would happily get stranded on you for a lifetime."

"I love you more than words can show, I think about you more than you could ever know, until forever this will be true because there is no one I would ever love the way I love you."

"I love you more than any obstacle that might get in our way."

"I love you and I don't want to lose you. Because my life has been better since the day I found out."

"When I say I love you more, I don't mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most."

"You are the source of my joy, the center of my world, and the whole of my heart."

"Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again."

"I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you."

"I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you're yet to be."

"I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer."

"In you, I have found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend."

"Your voice is my favorite sound."

"Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite."

"In you, I've found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend."