Empowering Quotes to Inspire Young Ladies

Discover a powerful collection of quotes designed to inspire and uplift young women. From iconic figures to modern leaders, these words will motivate you to embrace your strength and pursue your dreams. Each quote serves as a reminder of the incredible potential within every young lady. Whether you're seeking encouragement in your personal journey or looking for wisdom to share with friends, this compilation offers insights that resonate with the challenges and triumphs of young women today. Dive into these inspiring words and let them fuel your ambition and confidence!

Wisdom from the Masters

"To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams."

- Hillary Clinton

Empowerment

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

- Kamala Harris

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

"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

Aspirations

"What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud, and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories."

- Oprah Winfrey

Courage

"To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams."

- Hillary Clinton

Empowerment

"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

"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

"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential."

- Malala Yousafzai

Empowerment

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

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

- Gabby Douglas

Courage

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

- Maya Angelou

Empowerment

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

"I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world."

- Beyoncé

Empowerment

"We can no longer let people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not ‘blah blah blah.’ Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people."

- Greta Thunberg

Hope

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

Change

"Women need a seat at the table, they need an invitation to be seated there, and in some cases, where this is not available, they need to create their own table. We need a global understanding that we cannot implement change effectively without women’s political participation."

- Meghan Markle

Leadership

"Women feel like we need permission… We need to lead and change that."

- Emma Watson

Empowerment

"The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Empowerment

"A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of."

- Zendaya

Belief in Self

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

- Rosa Parks

Courage

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

- Audre Lorde

Compassion

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

- Maya Angelou

Self-esteem

"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

Empowerment

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

- Anna Quindlen

Self-esteem

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

- Isabel Allende

Empowerment

"Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely—and the right to be heard."

- Hillary Clinton

Empowerment

"Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

Empowerment

"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

Empowerment

"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

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

Hope

"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

Empowerment

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

"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

Courage

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

- Melinda Gates

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

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

- Diane Mariechild

Empowerment

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

- Coco Chanel

Aspirations

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

- Barbara Corcoran

Success

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

Empowerment

"I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights."

- Oprah Winfrey

Hope

"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

"If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. Women should feel free."

- Emma Watson

Empowerment

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

- Ginni Rometty

Growth

"In life there is no real safety except for self-belief."

- Madonna

Belief in Self

"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

Success

"Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

- Cher

Empowerment

"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

Courage

"As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by."

- Madonna

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Golda Meir

Achievement

"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

"Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are."

- Oprah Winfrey

Self-awareness

"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

Motivation

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Courage

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

- Nora Ephron

Empowerment

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"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

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

Ambition

"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

Empowerment

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

- Swati Sharma

Empowerment

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

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

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

- Blake Lively

Self-confidence

"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

Empowerment

"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

Leadership

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

- Melissa Etheridge

Self-esteem

"When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous."

- Michelle Obama

Education

"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

Resilience

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

Balance

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

- Louise Hay

Personal Growth

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

- Mia Hamm

Taking Risks

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

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

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

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

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

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

- Ally Carter

Overcoming Obstacles

"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

Empowerment

"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

Self-awareness

"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

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

- Jennifer Lopez

Self-awareness

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

- Rosalynn Carter

Self-confidence

"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

Failure

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

- Coco Chanel

Courage

"No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay."

- Estée Lauder

Taking Risks

"If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in."

- Reese Witherspoon

Empowerment

"I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen."

- Emma Watson

Courage

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

Change

"Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto."

- Demi Lovato

Self-care

"I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own."

- Michelle Obama

Belief

"With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished."

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Empowerment

"Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."

- Susana Martinez

Success

"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

"You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious."

- Angela Merkel

Ambition

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

Change

"There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

Courage

"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Courage

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

- Ayn Rand

Leadership

"You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'"

- Erin McKean

Self-esteem

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

- Gloria Steinem

Change

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

- Jane Goodall

Compassion

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

Imagination

"Feminism is for everybody."

- Bell Hooks

Belief in Self

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Marge Piercy

Empowerment

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

- Atticus

Courage

"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

Strength

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

- Melinda Gates

Empowerment

"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

Perseverance

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

- Judy Garland

Self-improvement

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

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

Courage

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

- Michelle Obama

Empowerment

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength

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

- Carly Simon

Resilience

"I urge everyone here and everyone who hears my voice to join me in telling the stories that aren’t told. To honor the girls, the women of color, who are murdered at disproportionate rates in this nation."

- Naomi Wadler

Empowerment

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

- Nikita Gill

Empowerment

"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Belief in Self

"I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence."

- Kelly Ayotte

Motivation

"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

Compassion

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

- Pink

Self-esteem

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

- Angela Yee

Empowerment

"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

Independence

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

- Ingrid Bergman

Happiness

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

- Catherine Cook

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

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

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

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

- Mindy Kaling

Ambition

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

- Beverly Sills

Motivation

"Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

- Julia Child

Ambition

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-esteem

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

- Calamity Jane

Empowerment

"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

Courage

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

- Madonna

Courage

"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper."

- Julia Child

Creativity

"You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you."

- Katie Couric

Self-awareness

"Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference."

- Nikki Haley

Leadership

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

- Byron Katie

Self-awareness

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist."

- Margaret Cho

Self-esteem

"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."

- Mae West

Boldness

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

Compassion

"If you do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

- Katharine Hepburn

Motivation

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

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

Strength

"Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands—two equally harmful disciplines."

- Simone de Beauvoir

Adversity

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Never apologize for being a powerful woman."

Empowerment

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

- Unknown

Empowerment

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

Self-care

"Sí se puede!"

Empowerment

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

Spirituality

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

Spirituality

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

Spirituality

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

Spirituality

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

Spirituality

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

Spirituality