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40 Self Empowering Quotes For Women

List of 40 Self Empowering Quotes For Women:

#1 Michael A. Singer

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”

#2 Ronald Reagan

“If you think you can – you can!”

#3 Stephen Richards

“Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.”

#4 Maeve Greyson

“No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.”

#5 Henry Ford

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”

#6 Catherine Jane Fisher

“Be an empowertarian. A person who empowers their own life and that of others.”

#7 Kirstin Leigh

“You don’t have to live with whatever life throws you–or whatever you’ve gotten yourself into… You can choose to Change Your Story!”

#8 Gisele Bundchen

”The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.”

#9 Gift Gugu Mona

“When you remove the ‘t’ from can’t, you will realize how much you can.”

#10 Alanis Morissette

”I’m a liability to them – I’m a woman, I’m empowered, I’m an artist. I’ve had executives who can’t come to my shows they’re so scared of me. I’ve been a thorn in many people‘s sides just by existing.”

#11 Cherise Sinclair

“I can do anything if i want it enough.”

#12 Audrey Hepburn

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life–to be happy–it’s all that matters.”

#13 Gary Zukav

”The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.”

#14 Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

#15 Rihanna

”Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‘Well, I can do that, too.’”

#16 Shannon L. Alder

“Don’t ever let someone tell you the value you don’t have, in order to be in someone’s life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.”

#17 Shakira

”I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.”

#18 Rob Liano

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

#19 Melinda Gates

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”

#20 Idowu Koyenikan

“You just can’t let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.”

#21 Ella Fitzgerald

“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.”

#22 Dacha Avelin

“Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.”

#23 Kahlil Gibran

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

#24 Diane von Furstenberg

”I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.”

#25 Marianne Williamson

“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. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”

#26 Oprah Winfrey

”When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you’ve been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.”

#27 Mary Anne Radmacher

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

#28 Charlyn Khater

“Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.”

#29 Regina R. Carver

“Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.”

#30 Steve Maraboli

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

#31 Pamela Anderson

”I don’t consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I’ve used all my resources wisely. I believe in equality, but that’s just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.”

#32 Eve Ensler

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees.”

#33 Florence Nightingale

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

#34 Amelia Earhart

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

#35 Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

#36 Helen Keller

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

#37 Steve Maraboli

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”

#38 Hoda Kotb

”Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn’t going to be all of me.”

#39 Stephen King

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

#40 Amy Jo Martin

”Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it’s stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that’s when people do their best work. You can’t fake confidence or empowerment.”

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References

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1906/roosevelt/biographical/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/