64+ Best Empowering Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your life. Profoundly inspirational empowering quotes will fire up your brain and encourage you to look at life differently while making you laugh.

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Famous Empowering Quotes

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. Albert Einstein

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

Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi

Grow through what you go through.

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. Mark Twain

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. Stephen King

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust the timing of your life.

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

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

It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. Walter Anderson

You wanna fly, you got to give up the ‘stuff’ that weighs you down. Toni Morrison

Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together. Diane McLaren

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

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

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

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it. Henry David Thoreau

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan Press On has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge

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

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. Mister Rogers

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Brontë

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. John Wooden

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.  Estée Lauder

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

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

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously. Steve Maraboli

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

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

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. Will Rogers

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Margaret Cho

You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.

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

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. Steve Jobs

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law

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

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live. Dorothy West

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. Estée Lauder

Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future. Tony Robbins

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.  Alexander Graham Bell

A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. Melinda Gates

Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

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

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

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

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. Paulo Coelho

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison

If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, Maybe I could 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

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins

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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. Steve Jobs

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