50 Girl Empowerment Quotes From Powerful Women

Today women are thriving in all facets of life, whether be it work, family, leading a country, and whatnot. But for centuries, the gender inequality gap had also been wide. But now it’s high time to put it to an end. We sincerely believe we together need to end this gender gap by constantly inspiring females from a very early age.

So here we have compiled the list of best inspiring girl empowerment quotes to inspire young ladies who can be our future leaders tomorrow.

Inspiring Girl Empowerment Quotes

1. “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

2. “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

3. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

4. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

5. “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

6. “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

7. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

8. “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 Lord

9. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “In life, there is no real safety except for self-belief.” – Madonna

18. “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

19. “Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.” – Margaret Cho

20. “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

21. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

22. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child

23. “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

24. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel

25. “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

26. “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, Persuasion

27. “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”– Taylor Swift

28. “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.”– Judy Garland

29. “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”– Simone de Beauvoir

30. 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

31. “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

32. “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”– Bethany Hamilton

33. “Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives, and manners unclear grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”– Neil Gaiman

34. “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.”– Maya Angelou

35. “I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.” – Ellen DeGeneres

36. “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” – Serena Williams

37. “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” – Anaïs Nin

38. “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” – Emma Stone

39. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde

40. “Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen.” – Meghan Markle

41. “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

42. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey

43. “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

44. “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” – Anaïs Nin

45. “You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

46. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

47. “I believe the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.” – Hillary Clinton

48. “If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.” – Betty Eadie

49. “Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.” – Lilly Singh

50. “I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?” – Mindy Kaling

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So that was our personal favorite round-up of 50 Inspiring Girl empowerment quotes from powerful women. We hope these positive girl empowerment quotes hold tremendous power and become a source of inspiration for young girls.

If you come across any other girl empowerment quotes, worth listing here, let us know in the comments section below.