Empowering Quotes for Girls: A Collection of Inspiration

Discover a powerful collection of inspiring quotes for girls that celebrate strength, confidence, and individuality. These words from remarkable women will uplift and motivate you to embrace your true self and pursue your dreams. From Coco Chanel to Maya Angelou, each quote serves as a reminder of the power within you. Whether you're seeking motivation for personal growth or encouragement to stand up for yourself, this collection is here to inspire you. Dive into these empowering words and let them guide you on your journey to becoming the best version of yourself. Remember, you are capable of achieving greatness!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Michelle Obama

Empowerment

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

- Charlotte Whitton

Empowerment

"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

Belief

"Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks."

- Ariana Grande

Self-esteem

"She's not a girl, she's a legend."

- Sophia Amoruso

Empowerment

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

- Madonna

Self-awareness

"Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy."

- Nicole Scherzinger

Self-confidence

"If you are always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

"I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am."

- Megan Rapinoe

Self-awareness

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

"They'll tell you you're too loud and you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway."

- Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

"Half woman, half warrior. Delicate and strong."

- R.H. Sin

Strength

"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution."

- Tina Fey

Empowerment

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

- Carly Simon

Resilience

"I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am."

- Billie Eilish

Self-confidence

"If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?"

- Malala Yousafzai

Empowerment

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

"As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am."

- Beyoncé

Goals

"It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need."

- Amy Poehler

Empowerment

"You don't have to be anyone but yourself to be worthy."

- Tarana Burke

Self-esteem

"It's not your job to be likeable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway."

- Chimamanda Adichie

Self-awareness

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-esteem

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

- Gina Carey

Courage

"People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together."

- Michelle Obama

Empowerment

"Always the most important rule of beauty, which is: Who cares?"

- Tina Fey

Self-awareness

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

Success

"I like that I'm not typical."

- Lizzo

Self-confidence

"My beauty is not about how I look. My beauty is about my heart and soul."

- Laverne Cox

Self-awareness

"Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with."

- Cardi B

Ambition

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

Empowerment

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

- Marilyn Monroe

Empowerment

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a b*tch, ok."

- Madonna

Ambition

"It is amazing what a woman can do if she only ignores what men tell her she can't."

- Carol K. Carr

Empowerment

"Who run the world? Girls."

- Beyoncé

Empowerment

"Girls should never be afraid to be smart."

- Emma Watson

Education

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

- Coco Chanel

Aspirations

"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

Ambition

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

- Maya Angelou

Empowerment

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

- Maya Angelou

Self-esteem

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

- Kamala Harris

Empowerment

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

"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

Aspirations

"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

Self-esteem

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

- Melinda French Gates

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Coco Chanel

Strength

"The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold."

- Michelle Obama

Empowerment

"When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

Courage

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

- Melissa Etheridge

Self-esteem

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

- Beyoncé

Self-awareness

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

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- G.D. Anderson

Belief in Self

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Connection to Earth

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

- Judy Garland

Self-improvement

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

- Michelle Obama

Self-confidence

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

- Dolly Parton

Belief in Self

"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

Self-confidence

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

- Rosa Parks

Courage

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Leadership

"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

Courage

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

- Jane Goodall

Gratitude

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

- Lucille Ball

Courage

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

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

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

- Swati Sharma

Empowerment

"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

Courage

"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

Self-esteem

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

- Mindy Kaling

Ambition

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

- Margaret Fuller

Belief in Self

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

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

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

- George Eliot

Change

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Blake Lively

Self-confidence

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

- Ashley Rickards

Empowerment

"You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman."

- Tyra Banks

Empowerment

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

Bravery

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

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

- Amelia Earhart

Courage

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

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

- Ginni Rometty

Growth

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Courage

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

- Coco Chanel

Courage

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Awareness

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

- Maya Angelou

Contentment

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

"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

Courage

"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

Self-awareness

"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

Growth

"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

Ambition

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

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

"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

Happiness

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

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

- Rosalynn Carter

Self-confidence

"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

Taking Risks

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

- Charlotte Whitton

Empowerment

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Leadership

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Empowerment

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

- W. P. Kinsella

Happiness

"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

Reflection

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

- Lynda Berry

Adaptation

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

- Mae West

Ambition

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

- Nancy Astor

Awareness

"I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?"

- Amy Poehler

Self-awareness

"I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine."

- Mel Gibson

Awareness

"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."

- Gilda Radner

Empowerment

"A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon."

- Arnold Haultain

Connection to Earth

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

- Margaret Mead

Courage

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

- Al Anon

Empowerment

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

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"I'm every woman. It's all in me. Anything you want done, baby, I do it naturally. I'm every woman. It's all in me. I can read your thoughts right now, every one from A to Z."

Empowerment

"When all is said and done, you'll believe God is a woman."

Spirituality

"Princess or queen, tomboy or king. You've heard a lot, you've never seen. Mother Earth, Mother Mary rise to the top. Divine feminine, I'm feminine."

Spirituality

"Throw your hands up if you know that you're a star. You better stand up if you know just who you are. Never give up, never say 'die.' Girl power, girl power."

Empowerment

"Ladies all across the world, listen up. We're looking for recruits. If you with me, let me see your hands. Stand up and salute. Get your killer heels, sneakers pumps, or lace up your boots. Representing all the women, salute."

Empowerment

"I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man. And I'm so sick of them coming at me again 'cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man."

Empowerment

"If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."

Empowerment

"When someone tells you that you can’t, turn around and say ‘watch me.’"

Courage

"Diva is a female version of a hustler."

Ambition

"I woke up like this. We flawless, ladies, tell 'em. Say, 'I look so good tonight.'"

Self-confidence

"Who says, who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurting? Trust me, that's the price of beauty. Who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful? Who says?"

Self-esteem

"Believe in yourself and you can do unbelievable things."

Belief in Self

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Empowerment