Strong Powerful Women Quotes:

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Strong Powerful Women, Women Best Inspirational

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Strong, Empowering, Tragedy, Inspirational Feminist, Women Strength

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

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

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

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Witty, Strong Women, Independent, Indian Patriotic, Women's Suffrage

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

source: Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Strong Women, Courage, Struggle, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

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

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

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

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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

- Ruth Gordon

topic: Inspirational, Women, Use, I Am Strong, Powerful Women

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

- Katharine Hepburn

source: Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Independent Thinking, Powerful Women

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art, Powerful Women, Women Equality

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

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

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Wishbones, Kickass 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

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Done, Want, Independent Person, Powerful Women

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Mother, Strong Women, Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

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

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation, Hard Truths, Powerful Women

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Strong, Mets, Powerful Women, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

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

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Powerful, Inspirational Strong Women, Inspire Women

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Powerful Women, Strong Female, Strong Heart

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

- Dido Armstrong

topic: Strong, Independent, Honest, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. 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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Positive, Makeup And Beauty, Manicures

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

topic: Motivational, Women, Blessing, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

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

- Coco Chanel

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

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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, International Women's Day, Sexy Women

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Country, Running, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

topic: Spiritual, Witty, Women, Interesting Life, Inconvenient Truth

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Girl, Teenage, World, Female Empowerment, That Girl

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

- Margaret Thatcher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Powerful, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

- Anais Nin

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

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

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Age, Born, Male Privilege, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Inspirational, Life, Powerful, Powerful Women, Strong Powerful Women

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Powerful, Badass, Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

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 Johnson Evans

topic: Strong Women, Fall, Hard Work, Career Women, Inspirational Strong Women

Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.

- Jesse Peyronel

topic: Strong, Powerful, Mean, Powerful Women, Strong Powerful Women