Here’s our collection of strong women quotes. These quotes exemplify the strength, grace, and wisdom all women possess. Use these powerful women’s quotes to remind girls of all ages how wonderful they really are!
So, here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we raise them. And, may we be them.
Inspirational Quotes About Strong Women
- A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.
Unknown - Never apologize for being a powerful woman.
Unknown - She was a wild one; always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on.
Kaitlin Foster - Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.
Stephanie Bennett-Henry - The woman who doesn’t require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.
Mohadesa Najumi
Powerful Women Quotes
- We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
Kavita Ramdas - She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.
JmStorm - A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else.
Unknown - A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow as abundantly as her laughter. A strong woman is both soft and powerful, she is both practical and spiritual. A strong woman in her essence is a gift to the world.
Native American Saying — See more Native American Sayings - She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.
Roman Payne - Strong women don’t play victim, don’t make themselves look pitiful, and don’t point figures. They stand and they deal.
Mandy Hale
Women in Sports Quotations
- True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with most guts.
Mia Hamm - Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King - I am just like the millions, not one in the millions. I am no different from others. Any girl can do what I did; all they need is doggedness, determination, the will to push hard and push through boundaries, and never-ending commitment to achieve their goal.
Sakshi Malik – Indian Wrestler - If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don’t give up.
Mary Kom, Olympic Bronze Medalist - Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
Courageous Woman Quotes
- A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.
Nancy Rathburn - And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.
Mark Anthony - A strong woman is someone who raises other women up instead of tearing them down.
Unknown - I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.
Kaci Diane - A woman can be completely unstoppable after she realizes how much she is worth.
Unknown
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Determined Woman Quotes
- You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane von Furstenberg - The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.
R.H. Sin - A strong woman is not just born strong. She is forged through the fires of life.
Unknown - She believed she could, so she did.
Unknown - The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.
Unknown
Motivational Quotes
- We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are.
Rupi Kaur - One of the strongest things you can do as a woman is to know who you are and not be ashamed of it.
Unknown - She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow.
R. G. Moon - 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
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Famous Quotes on Women’s Strength
- Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross - We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai - Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison - In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher - Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt - When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
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I’m a Strong Woman Quotes
- I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart - Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.
Maya Angelou - Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie - Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony - Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron - I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde - What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall - A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined to not be done.
Marge Piercy - Live your life like a butterfly. Take a rest sometimes, but never forget to fly.
Unknown
Strong Confident Woman Quotes
- A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Melinda Gates - Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
Madame Marie du Deffand - A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel - It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright - Women are always saying,’ We can do anything that men can do’ but men should be saying, ‘We can do anything that women can do.
Gloria Steinem - There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.
Michelle Obama
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Women Power Quotes by Celebrities
- Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don’t get the same opportunities as men do or money for that matter. Because let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what’s sexy and what’s feminine and that’s bullshit. At the end of the day, it’s not about equal rights, it’s about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.
Beyonce Knowles - I’m tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, Okay.
Madonna - I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. And, I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn - Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.
Reba McEntire
Courageous Strong Women Quotes
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud.
Coco Chanel - We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
Beyoncé - I feel like young girls are told that they have to be a princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior – a fighter.
Emma Watson - Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names…. It was a woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.
Janelle Monáe
Inspirational Sayings
- The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.
Serena Williams - You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes - There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success… but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going… you’ll know that it was you and the people who love you that put you there.
Taylor Swift - There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.
Rihanna - I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. (And) I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story–I will.
Amy Schumer - “You’re going to be happy,” said life, “but, first I’ll make you strong.”
Unknown - A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.
Gina Carey
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- I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.
Coco Chanel - One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir - The key to success is to start before you’re ready.
Marie Forleo - Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but, I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir - Never apologize for being a powerful woman.
Unknown - Don’t stop until you’re proud.
Unknown - Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
Unknown - Don’t let someone dim your light simply because it’s shining in their eyes.
Unknown - Well-behaved women rarely make history.
Eleanor Roosevelt - Keep your heels, head, and standards high.
Coco Chanel
Michelle Obama — Strong Women Quotes
- Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
- Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
- Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.
- Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
- For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
- You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
- There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others.
- I am coming down from the mountaintop to tell every young person that is poor and working-class and has been told regardless of the color of your skin that you don’t belong, don’t listen to them. They don’t even know how they got at those seats.
- Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.
- Am I good enough? Yes, I am!
Amelia Earhart Quotations
- The most effective way to do it is to do it.
- Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.
- Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
- Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Lady Gaga Quotes on Strong Women
- Growing up, I was always told I was a rebel. People would say things like, “You’re defiant,” and “Why are you dressed that way?” But I continued to do what I wanted and wear what I wanted—because, clearly I haven’t changed. For a long time, though, there was a shame that I carried with me. I’m an Italian Catholic—I grew up with a lot of guilt. But what I’ve started to realize is that my rebelliousness, if you want to call it that, is something that was passed along to me by a long line of tough people—and tough women—in my family.
- Being a lady today means being a fighter. It means being a survivor. It means letting yourself be vulnerable and acknowledging your shame or that you’re sad or you’re angry. (And) it takes great strength to do that.
- Health, happiness, love—these are the things that are at the heart of a great lady, I think. That’s the kind of lady I want to be.
Dianna, Princess of Wales Quotes
- Only do what your heart tells you.
- I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.
- Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
- Family is the most important thing in the world.
- Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
- Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children.
- When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Oprah Winfrey Quotes
- Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
- Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Marie Curie Quotes
- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
- The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
- First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
- You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. to that end, each of us must work for our own improvement.
Ways That Women (and all People) Can Be Strong
Some folks mistakenly believe that the only strength is physical. That’s not the case. Here are some examples of how a person can be strong:
- Mentally strong.
- Spiritually powerful.
- Strong-willed.
- Displaying a strong personality when needed.
- Strong endurance.
- Powerful wisdom.
- A powerful force in the community.
By M.J. O’Halloran
Mary lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and writes for Sports Feel Good Stories.
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