Women deserve to be celebrated for their extraordinary contributions to society, remarkable triumphs and unmatched fearlessness. Despite gender inequalities across all sectors, women continue to thrive and beat the odds. That’s why we’re rounding up the best quotes from women about strength to empower, motivate and inspire you to keep up the good fight.
It’s easy to give in to feelings of self-doubt and back down from challenges. But that’s certainly not what being a strong woman is all about.
The Motivational Quotes For Women below are filled with wisdom that will awaken hope, ambition, faith and inner strength. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed compiling them.
Use these Motivational Quotes For Women as a reminder that you are indeed strong and can overcome the many obstacles that appear in your path.
1. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Especially not yourself.
Mindy Kaling
2. If you can dance and be free and be embarrassed, you can rule the world.
Amy Poehler
3. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel
4. The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
Beyoncé Knowles
5. Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
6. Women are the real architects of society.
Cher
7. Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.
Marilyn Monroe
8. Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.
Helen Keller
9. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
10. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
11. It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.
Taylor Swift
12. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
13. The best protection any woman can have … is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.
Janis Joplin
15. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
16. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
17. You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
Melissa Etheridge
18. Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
Jameela Jamil
19. Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
Michelle Obama
20. We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
Beyonce
21. It’s really important for us to be unapologetic. To be bold. To be brave. And to take huge risks.
Awkwafina
22. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
Serena Williams
23. ‘No’ today doesn’t mean ‘no’ tomorrow.
Yvonne Orji
24. Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you.
Simone
25. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Diane Mariechild
26. Success breeds confidence.
Beryl Markham
27. Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.
Emily Dickinson
28. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
29. Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
30. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
Rhonda Hansome
31. Be a Girl with a mind, a Woman with attitude, and a Lady with class.
Unknown
32. Do Not Judge You Don’t Know What Storm I’ve Asked Her To Walk Trough.
Unknown
33. Dear Stress, Let’s Break up.
Unknown
34. Stay Strong, Make Them Wonder How You’re Still Smiling.
Unknown
35. Smile And Let Everyone Know That Today, You’re A Lot Stronger Than You Were.
Unknown
36. I Am Not What Happened To Me. I Am What I Choose To Become.
Unknown
37. Littles Girls With Dreams Becomes Women With Vision.
Unknown
38. 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
39. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Diane Mariechild
40. A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else.
Unknown
41. 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
42. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
43. No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
Billie Jean King
44. Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé Knowles Carter
45. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
46. I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.
B. Smith
47. The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.
Jane Fonda
48. When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Martha Stewart
49. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Oprah Winfrey
50. I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.
Hoda Kotb
51. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”
Marge Piercy
52. “I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”
Calamity Jane
53. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”
J. K. Rowling
54. “She was a wild one; always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on.”
Kaitlin Foster
55. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”
Atticus
56. “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
57. “Stay strong. Make them wonder how you’re still smiling.”
Unknown
58. 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
59. “Next time, ask: what’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”
Audre Lorde
60. “A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.”
Allegra Versace
61. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.”
Unknown
62. “A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.”
Unknown
63. “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.”
Serena Williams
64. “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”
Unknown
65. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.”
Unknown
66. “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
67. “Stop waiting to find the light at the end of the tunnel and be the light for yourself.”
Unknown
68. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”
Jennifer Lopez
69. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey
70. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
71. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama XIV
72. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln
73. “Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.”
Katherine Johnson
74. “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
Jane Austen
75. “I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
Amy Poehler
76. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
J.K. Rowling
77. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
Roxane Gay
78. “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
79. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”
Taylor Swift
80. “There are those who say fate is something beyond our command; that destiny is not our own. But I know better. Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it.”
Merida Brave
81. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. “
Jennifer Lopez
82. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
Judy Garland
83. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
84. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.”
Joan Rivers
85. “Done is better than perfect.”
Sheryl Sandberg
86. “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
87. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
Maya Angelou
88. “You’ve just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.”
Chaka Khan
89. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Zora Neale Hurston
90. “If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
91. “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.”
William Golding
92. “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
93. “The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
Adrienne Rich
94. “I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.”
Louisa May Alcott
95. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”
Beyonce
96. “Little girls with dreams become women with vision.”
Unknown
97. “I am a woman and I get to define what that means.”
Swati Sharma
98. “I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you.”
Reese Witherspoon
99. “I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased.”
Laverne Cox
100. “When the world tells you to shrink, expand.”
Elaine Welteroth
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