100+ Empowering Quotes Challenging the Notion of Women Solely as Childbearers

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Your limitation—it's only your imagination.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.

Success doesn’t just find you, you have to go out and get it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.

Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!

I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.

I'm not lazy, I'm just in energy-saving mode.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

I'm not short. I'm concentrated awesome.

I'm not late. Everyone else is just early.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Knowledge is power.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Existence precedes essence.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we just might.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I’m with you.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows.

Every moment with you feels like magic.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.

You’re the closest thing to heaven that I’ll ever know.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love is mutual.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

The wise man speaks because he has something to say; the fool because he has to say something.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

A wise person knows when to speak and when to listen.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

With the wisdom of hindsight, we see clearly what we failed to notice before.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

She believed she could, so she did.

I am not a victim. No, I am a survivor.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

I am enough. I do enough. I am worthy.

Doubt means don’t. Don’t doubt your power.

I don’t need anyone’s permission to be my authentic self.

Power is not given. Power is taken.

I define my own worth.

I rise, I shine, I conquer.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

Growth begins when we accept our flaws.

Stillness speaks louder than noise.

What you seek is seeking you.

Not all wounds bleed, but they all hurt.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.

The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you have with yourself.

Letting go isn’t giving up, it’s accepting that there are things that cannot be.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Less is more.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Breathe.

Be here now.

Enough.

This, too, shall pass.

Just show up.

One step.

Peace.

Let it be.

Only this.

Simply begin.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Think different.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Dreams are the seeds of change.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Create the future you want to see.