Empower Your Spirit: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Quotes on Empowerment

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

- Michelle Obama

"It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You are allowed to want more for yourself for no other reason than because it makes your heart happy. You don’t need anyone’s permission, and you certainly shouldn’t have to rely on anyone’s support as the catalyst to get you there."

- Rachel Hollis

"There is a wolf inside of every woman. Her wolf is who she was made to be before the world told her who to be. Her wolf is her talent, her power, her dreams, her voice, her curiosity, her courage, her dignity, her choices—her truest identity."

- Abby Wambach

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticised anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

- Louise Hay

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone."

- Robert Allen

"She will rise with a spine of steal and a roar like thunder. She will rise."

- Nicole Lyons

"Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do good and great things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. Believe in yourself."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"To be the person who we long to be—we must be vulnerable. We must take off the armour, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen."

- Brené Brown

"Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now."

- Marie Forleo

"I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be."

- Michelle Obama

"There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."

- Tim Fargo

"Keep your thoughts directed at your goal, do everything that you DO know how to do to make it happen, decide with unwavering determination that it will happen, and be on the lookout for the opportunity."

- Jen Sincero

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"No one is you, and that is your power."

- Dave Grohl

"We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead."

- Beyoncé

"I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story — I will."

- Amy Schumer

"To the doubters and naysayers and everyone who gave me hell and said I could not, that I would not or I must not – your resistance made me stronger, made me push harder, made me the fighter that I am today."

- Madonna

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it and sometimes you just have to blast through and have faith."

- Emma Watson

"You have a unique purpose and no one can fulfill it except you."

- Joel Osteen

"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

"Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do."

- Gloria Steinem

"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul."

- Coretta Scott King

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

- Maya Angelou

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"You don't need anyone's permission to be yourself."

- T. Harv Eker

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do."

- Brené Brown

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason."

- Tina Fey

"You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are."

- Sierra Boggess

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."

- Walt Disney

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"Success is a decision. Dare to choose it."

- Jill Konrath

"You don’t achieve success, you attract success."

- Farshad Asl

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

- Bill Gates

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

- Alice Walker

"Feeling confident—or pretending that you feel confident—is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Be brutally honest about the short term, and optimistic and confident about the long term."

- Reed Hastings

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."

- Madeleine Albright

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"You are enough, just as you are."

"Hold the vision. Trust the process."

"It might not be easy but it’ll be worth it."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being positive about what can go right."

"Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days bring you experience."

"Take the risk or lose the chance."

"Results happen overtime not overnight – work hard, stay consistent and be patient."