Personal Growth Quotes

100+ Best Empowering Quotes That Will Boost Your Self-Confidence

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Sometimes, our troubles can become so overwhelming that we want to give up.

Or they create a smoke-screen around us, impeding us to see our full potential clearly.

If you allow it, people, your circumstance or life in general will beat you down, break your heart and steal your joy.

But, this is what you need to know . . .

No matter what happens to you in this crazy life or wherever you find yourself in this chaotic world . . .

NEVER forget your capacity to thrive and to overcome.

Here’s a list of some of the best empowering quotes by famous people from all around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences and abilities. From monks to singers, to billionaires.

These thought-provokingly empowering quotes will hopefully reframe your perspective on your life and give you more confidence to go out and kick ass.

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Deeply Empowering Quotes By Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Empowering Quotes By Beyoncé

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens.

Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.

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.

Empowering Quotes By Dalai Lama XIV

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.

Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.

Empowering Quotes By Dr. Seuss

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Empowering Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Spiritually Empowering Quotes By Joel Osteen

People have a right to have their opinion, but you have a right to ignore it. People have a right to be rude, but you have a right to stay happy.

You have to accept that some people, no matter what you do, are not going to like you. No matter how nice you are, they’re not going to approve of you. You have to be at peace with people not being at peace with you.

Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean the answer is not on the way. The people that see promises fulfilled, the people that see breakthroughs are the people that keep praying, keep believing, and keep standing in faith.

Don’t try to answer your critics; don’t try to convince them to like you. Maintain your dignity. Be an eagle and rise above.

When people dump things on you, keep your lid on. Don’t let that get in you. When you’re tempted to get upset or frustrated, remind yourself that you have the power to remain calm.

Don’t let the small things keep you from seeing the gift of this day. Keep it in perspective. It’s not worth losing your joy over. You have health. You have life. You have freedom. You have opportunity.

Satisfyingly Empowering Quotes By Lady Gaga

Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it’s okay.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

Empowering Quotes Of Wisdom By Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.

Soul-Liberating And Empowering Quotes By Martin Luther King Jr.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

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

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Beautifully Empowering Quotes By Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Heavenly Empowering Quotes By Mother Teresa

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Peace begins with a smile.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Empowering Quotes By Nicholas Sparks

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that!

Best Empowering Quotes By Oprah Winfrey

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Empowering Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Empowering Quotes By Paulo Coelho

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Amazingly Empowering Quotes By Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Empowering Quotes On Life By Tony Robbins

Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

If you can’t you must, and if you must you can.

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.

Tremendously Empowering Quotes By Various People

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ― Marilyn Monroe

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ― George Eliot

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth. ― William W. Purkey

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ― Mae West

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. ― Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ― Theodore Roosevelt

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ― Helen Keller

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ― Bernard M. Baruch

Whatever you are, be a good one. ― Abraham Lincoln

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ― George Bernard Shaw

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. ― Robert Frost