Lift her up and you rise, too.
—Meghan Craig
50+ Inspiring, Empowering Quotes for Women
We look to empowering quotes for different reasons: A few meaningful words can motivate you at the start of the day, help you find strength to overcome a challenge, inspire you to be your best self, and stir powerful emotions. These empowering quotes for women were written by women with different backgrounds and life experiences but a shared goal: encourage and celebrate each other.
I’d love a world with women like you running it.
—Courtney Taylor
Women like you pave the way for women like me, and for that, I am grateful.
—Sharon Valleau
Let’s hear it for the bossy ones.
For those loud, proud women
who stand up and speak out.
For their confidence and imperfection,
their strength and vulnerability.
Let’s hear it for us.
—Meghan Craig
Women who did
created women who can.
—Mercedes Lucero
Power to the women who do.
Power to the mothers, the daughters,
the sisters, the givers, the nurturers,
the growers, the makers, the workers,
the players, the teachers, the learners,
the lovers, the fighters…
Power to the women who do.
—Keely Chace
Here’s to strong women.
May we know them,
may we be them,
may we celebrate them.
—Cheryl Gaines
Behind every strong woman
is another strong woman.
—Tina Neidlein
Need to check-in with a girlfriend?
Send a thinking of you card.
The world said, “Be invisible.”
But she heard, “Be invincible.”
—Amy Trowbridge-Yates
She is brave when it’s hard.
—Meghan Craig
She believed she could, so she did.
—Suzanne Berry
Let your dreams grow wild.
—Melissa Woo
Supporting my own dreams.
Lifting my expectations.
Running my own life.
—Ellen Brenneman
Wake up each day
and tell the world to bring it.
—Amy Trowbridge-Yates
Behind you, success.
Ahead of you, dreams.
Within you, everything you need
to make them come true.
—Renee Daniels
Your voice is strong.
Your voice is brave.
Your voice is your own.
—Meghan Craig
You couldn’t hide your light if you tried.
—Ellen Brenneman
Blessed, wise & beautiful.
—Jeannie Hund
You’re destined for amazing things.
No pressure.
—Meghan Craig
She shines so bright, she lights up the whole world.
—Meghan Craig
Love that heart of yours.
—Suzanne Berry
Skills, talents, time.
Whatever you have,
someone out there needs it.
—Jennifer Fujita
Embrace risk.
Invite change.
Celebrate growth.
Believe in you.
—Sarah Magill
Life’s more beautiful when you add your own colours.
—Melvina Young
You can do hard things.
You’ve got this.
You are more than this moment.
—Meghan Craig
We don’t give up.
We step up.
—Meghan Craig
Look around you and you’ll know
where you are.
Look within you…and you’ll know
where you’re going.
—Linda Elrod
Perseverance is in our DNA.
—Elle McKinney
The darker the day,
the brighter she shines.
—Jeannie Hund
How to be Your Own Woman:
Claim your own power.
Take your own path.
Cherish your own body.
Nurture your own spirit.
Do your own stunts.
Speak your own truth.
Tell your own story.
—Keely Chace
The universe is wide.
You will find your place in it.
—Melvina Young
Speak up.
Refuse to be shushed by anything
degrading or indecent or just plain stupid.
Understand that you don’t have to choose
between being powerful or being liked—
that it is entirely possible
to have a good head on your shoulders
and cute hair, too.
You are a woman.
Brilliant, bold, beautiful…
rolled into one badass package.
—Amy Trowbridge-Yates
Mess up. Own it.
Move on. Grow.
—Melvina Young
What you’re doing is important.
The staying in, the figuring it out,
the pushing through.
It might seem like it doesn’t matter,
but it does—to your loved ones
and to the people you may never know.
Because that’s just how goodness works.
And that’s how you’re changing the world,
every single day.
—Meghan Craig
Game-changer.
Life-changer.
World-changer.
YOU.
—Suzanne Berry
Women change the conversation.
Women change the game.
Women change the world.
—Meghan Craig
The world needs what you got.
—Lynn Giunta
The best way to change the world?
Start with your own.
—Suzanne Berry
Whatever is unchangeable…change it.
—Mercedes Lucero
Some of the best decisions in history
were made by women who stood up,
faced the world, and said, “HELL NO!”
—Courtney Taylor
Do good.
Bring friends.
—Jennifer Fujita
Best friends read your mind,
know your heart,
and feed your soul.
—Alyssa Kimmel
A woman who’s got
her girls behind her
has got the world.
—Melvina Young
Sisterhood is our superpower.
—Meghan Haave
I’ve got your back.
I’m on team YOU.
That means whatever
wants to come at you
has to get through me first.
I got your back.
And we got this.
—Jeannie Hund
Friends remind us of our awesomeness
when we’ve forgotten.
—Melissa Woo
Held together by friends,
love, and taco Tuesdays.
—Courtney Taylor
When it gets the darkest,
you’ll see who your true friends are.
They’ll be the ones carrying the light.
—Katherine Stano
Friends are like cheese puffs.
You’re always happy to see them,
and it’s really comforting
just knowing they’re there.
—Melissa Woo
So much of who I am
is because of who you are.
—Linda Elrod
Little girls with dreams
become women of vision.
—Meg Hilburn
You taught me that smart is beautiful.
—Melvina Young
I’m so lucky…
one of my favourite humans
is also my daughter.
—Anna Wenner
You can tell them to dream
or you can show them how.
—Meghan Craig
Great women raise great women.
—Jennifer Fujita
Her life, her story,
and her courageous spirit
are like no other.
She is someone to look up to,
to cheer for, and to love.
—Stacey Donovan
Our mothers marched so we could soar.
—Lisa Riggin
A parent’s job is to lift their daughter up
so that one day she will rise on her own.
—Catherine Hollyer
She’s courage and spice
and everything nice,
and she’s also good at math.
—Suzanne Berry
A mother’s love is
the sun for growing,
the moon for dreaming,
the stars for guiding the way.
—Barbara Loots