1) ”A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”-Carly Simon
2) ”A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.”-Beyoncé
3) ”My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4) ”Women who had the strength to really stand up for something that they knew needed to be done is the best example of no matter how small you might feel, how low you may feel on the ladder or the totem pole, no matter what color you are, no matter what gender you are, you have a voice and you certainly have the right to speak up for what is right.”-Meghan Markle
5) ”Strong women don’t play the victim. Don’t make themselves look pitiful and don’t point fingers. They stand and they deal.”- Mandy Hale
6) ”But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self-confidence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.”-Kirsten Dunst
7) ”I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8) ”You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”- Elizabeth Gilbert
9) ”I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.”- Margaret Thatcher
10) ”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
11) ”Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.”-Melissa Etheridge
12) ”You can fall, but you can rise also.”-Angélique Kidjo
13) ”I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn’t need to hide behind her husband’s back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don’t play victim, you don’t make yourself look pitiful, you don’t point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.”- C. JoyBell C.
14) ”You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
15) ”You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
16) ”Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”-Mia Hamm
17) ”I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.”
18) ”Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.”-Shawn Johnson
19) ”Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”-Nora Ephron
20) ”Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering I will try again tomorrow.”-Mary Anne Radmacher
21) ”I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.”- Amy Poehler
22) ”Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”-Audre Lorde
23) ”Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”-Oprah Winfrey
24) ”Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.”- Nikita Gill
25) ”The majority of the things that I do, I’m actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.”- Aly Raisman
26) ”Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”
27) ”I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.”- Katie Ledecky
28) ”We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.”-Shirley Chisholm
29) ”Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”-Tina Fey
30) ”Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.”
31) ”When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations.”- Mariska Hargitay
32) ”Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.”-Chandra Wilson
33) ”When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”- Natalie Gulbis
34) ”I didn’t have anybody. Really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.”- Tina Turner
35) ”Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”-Judy Garland
36) ”I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.”-Penelope Cruz
37) ”Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.”-Gabrielle Reece
38) ”I’m trying to take the stigma off the word [ambitious] so we encourage more little girls to be ambitious, because I do think that’s how society will change.”- Reese Witherspoon
39) ”You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”- Shonda Rhimes
40) ”I don’t need easy, I just need possible.”-Bethany Hamilton
41) ”I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.”-Viola Davis
42) ”I’ve had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don’t know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don’t want to look back and think, ‘What if?”- Nastia Liukin
43) ”I have always been one to encourage perseverance.”- Christina Aguilera
44) ”I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”-Mother Teresa
45) ”I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.”- Misty May-Treanor
46)”Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead
47) ”I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.”-Diana Spencer
48) ”You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.”- Jennie Finch
49) ”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
50) ”Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don’t be afraid to say ‘No.”’- Nia Long
51) ”Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”- Bethany Hamilton
52) ”Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.”-Ava DuVernay
53) ”There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.”
54) ”A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
55) ”There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.”
56) ”I had to remind myself of the truth of who I was and the reality that success wasn’t defined by a result but by faithfulness. I had to remember that my identity and healing weren’t dependent on the voices that surrounded me and that the truth wasn’t dependent on popular opinion or cultural responses. I had to focus on what was real and true. The straight line instead of the crooked.”- Rachael Denhollander
57) ”I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.”-Beyoncé
58) ”Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”- Helen Keller
59) ”I love hearing educated people speak and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice.”- Zendaya
60) ”Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.”- Katherine Wolf
61) ”Champions keep playing until they get it right.”-Billie Jean King
62) ”Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”-Maya Angelou
63) ”I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.”-
64) ”The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”-bell hooks
65) ”I don’t want to be better than you or her or him – I want to be better than I am right now.”-Kerri Walsh
66) ”If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.”- Mindy Kaling
67) ”Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there’s no substitute for hard work.”-Hope Solo
68) ”I love challenging the status quo.”-Sara Ramirez
69) ”I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”-Angela Davis
70) ”Joy is strength.”-Mother Teresa
71) ”We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”- Margaret Atwood
72) ”I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”-Serena Williams
73) ”I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”-Audrey Hepburn
74) ”The important thing is to always ask the world to do some things. But sometimes they cannot be done, so you have to take a stab, and you have to do them.”
75) ”“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”-Marilynne Robinson
76) ”If you overthink things, the moment will pass you by.”- Maya Moore
77) ”Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”-Marissa Meyer
78) ”I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.”-Nicki Minaj
79) ”You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are. . . . You create the identity you want for yourself.”-Meghan Markle
80) ”Anger is not inherently destructive. My anger can be a force for good. My anger can be creative and imaginative, seeing a better world that doesn’t yet exist. It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom.”- Austin Channing Brown
81) ”I can if I want to because it’s my business.”-Tabitha Brown
82) ”Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.”-Amal Clooney
83) ”True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.”- Mia Hamm
84) ”Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.”-Reba McEntire
85) ”We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.”-Beth Moore
86)” People have to go through things in order to become the person that they are today and that’s that.”-Sarah Hyland
87) ”I’ve always wanted to fight for people who didn’t have arms. I’ve always wanted to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. I’ve always wanted to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. It’s my nature. It’s my instinct.”-Sophia Bush
88) ”I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”-Tracee Ellis Ross
89) ”We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
90) ”Because confidence is really trust in yourself, right? It has nothing to do with what someone else thinks of you; it’s what you think of you.”-Chrissy Metz
92) ”What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?”- Jennie Allen
93) ”A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”-Rosalynn Carter
94) ”It’s about putting in the hours and going through the paces.”-Shawn Johnson
95) ”My best successes came on the heels of failures.”
96) ”The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”-Ayn Rand
97) ”Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”-Brené Brown
98) ”If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success.”- Nastia Liukin
99) ”If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
100) ”Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.”
101) ”I don’t believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.”
102) ”Keep working even when no one is watching.”-Alex Morgan
103) ”It takes courage and strength to be empathetic, and I’m very proudly an empathetic and compassionate leader. I am trying to chart a different path, and that will attract criticism but I can only be true to myself and the form of leadership I believe in.”-Jacinda Ardern