Empowered Women Quotes:

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

source: "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Women Leadership, Business Woman

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Encouraging, Time, Giving Love, Small Things In Life

Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

- Arthur Shearly Cripps

topic: Education, Men, Individual, Women's Rights, Empowered Women

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Passion, Want, Kickass Women, Women Strength

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Women, International Women's Day, Empowered Women

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, About Success, Inspirational Achievement

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Spiritual, Empowering Women, Strong Female

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

- Beverly Sills

source: "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Empowering Women, Trying Something New

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

topic: Motivational, Women, Feminist, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Women And Love

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Sad, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

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

topic: Motivational, Women, Voice, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Inspirational Strong Women

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Long Ago, Years, Knowing, Empowering Women, I Am Strong

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Looks, Enough, Powerful Women, Motivational Leadership

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Encounters, May, Overcoming, Make People Feel Better, Perserverance

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Motivational, Mother, Fashion, I Am Strong, Inspirational Feminist

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

- Erin McKean

topic: Mother, Children, Men, Female Empowerment, Strong Women And Love

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

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

topic: Life, Inspiring, Encouraging, Self Determination, Powerful Women

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

- Tyra Banks

source: FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

topic: Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Confidence In Yourself, Love Your Self

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Dream, Men, Empowering Women, Career Women, Inspirational Strong Women

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Women, Power, Eyeglasses, International Women's Day, Womans Day

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

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

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

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Happiness, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Feminist

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

- Byron Katie

source: Twitter post from Jan 06, 2014

topic: Inspiring, Boyfriend, Jobs, Katie, Strong Women And Love

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

- Charlotte Whitton

source: Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Successful Women

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

- Rebecca West

topic: Girly, Peace, Time, Radical Feminism, Women Equality

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

topic: Running, Country, Strong Women, Inspirational Feminist, Career Women

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

source: Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.61, Hachette UK

topic: Self, Wish, Awareness, Empowered Women, Authentic Self

Figure out who you are 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 because with that, you can do anything else.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Men, Thinking, Self, Most Important Things In Life, Empowered Women

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Entrepreneur, Different, Standing Out, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

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 that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

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

- Roseanne Barr

source: "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women, Powerful Women, Women Equality

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person