100+ Inspiring Quotes for Women to Empower and Uplift

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

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

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

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

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

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

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

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

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

I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

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

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

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

I don’t need therapy, I just need a nap… and maybe wine.

I followed my dreams, but they were running slow so I passed them.

I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.

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 the measure of all things.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Life must be understood backward, but lived forward.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

She believed she could, so she did.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

I am my best work—a series of road maps, reports, recipes, and prayers to the gods of self-invention.

Women are the real architects of society.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Where there is love, there is life.

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

Love makes our souls grow.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

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.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.

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

Be kind.

Just do it.

Stay curious.

Think different.

Less is more.

Keep going.

Do better.

Make it happen.

Be the change.

Live fully.

Dream big.

Speak up.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.

Don’t be afraid to fail; be afraid not to try.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Success isn’t owned. It’s leased, and rent is due every day.

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Success comes from doing what others don’t believe is possible.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Own who you are. No apologies. No exceptions.

Confidence is not 'they will like me.' Confidence is 'I’ll be fine if they don’t.'

Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Fake it till you make it until you become it.

Good vibes only.

Living my best life.

Doing it for the gram.

Sunshine mixed with a little hurricane.

Not all who wander are lost—but I probably am.

Slaying my demons and shining bright.

Too glam to give a damn.

Creating my own sunshine.

Wild hearts can’t be broken.

Boss babe energy.

Flawsome and proud.

This is me—unfiltered, unapologetic, unstoppable.