Quotes Young
Words are for connecting.
And what better use for that connection than to help each other grow?
The inspirational quotes you’ll see below aren’t just about girl power — though they do celebrate authentic feminism.
They’re not about shaming, limiting, or punishing anyone.
They’re about rising to any challenge and supporting your fellow champions along the way.
Whatever your age, these inspirational girl quotes will remind you of what you’re capable of.
Then you can do the same for others.
I’ve broken the quotes down into categories like Quotes About Risk and Practical Quotes, which you can view on the table contents to jump to whatever section of quotes you like. The Internet’s brightest young entrepreneurial minds are talking on subjects from Simplicity to Social Media – and we would be fools not to listen. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. With May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day 2020) fast approaching, we rounded up 40 of Yoda’s best and most famous quotes to remind you just how impactful he is. Whatever your age, these inspirational girl quotes will remind you of what you’re capable of. Then you can do the same for others. 60 Inspirational Quotes For Young Women. “I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” ― Calamity Jane.
60 Inspirational Quotes For Young Women
1. “I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” ― Calamity Jane
2. “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
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3. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” ― Virginia Woolf
4. “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
5. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” ― Steve Maraboli
6. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” ― Atticus
7. “Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.” ― Candace Bushnell
8. “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ― D.H. Lawrence
9. “She was a wild one; always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on.” ― Kaitlin Foster
10. “You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
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11. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” ― Coco Chanel
12. “I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
13. “Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.” ― Diane Von Furstenberg
14. “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
15. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë
16. “Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.” — Hillary Clinton
17. “The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” ― C. JoyBell C.
18. “A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark … I go back into the dark! Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
19. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” ― Mary Elizabeth Winstead
21. “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
22. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” — Audre Lorde
23. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder
24. “To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?” ― Mahatma Gandhi
25. “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” ― Hillary Clinton
26. “I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.” ― Karen Hawkins
27. “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” ― Ruby Dee
28. “I have come to realize making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion you want, and do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.” — Demi Lovato
29. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” ― Maya Angelou
30. “Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.” ― Nelson Mandela
31. “And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I’m betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.” — Jessica Valenti
32. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ― Rosa Parks
33. “One of the most courageous decisions you'll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” ― Brigitte Nicole
34. “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
35. “Women are leaders everywhere you look – from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” ― Nancy Pelosi
36. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” ― Jennifer Lopez
37. “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen
38. “Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.” — Rebecca Solnit
39. “When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.” ― Barbara Taylor Bradford
40. “I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.” ― Amy Schumer
41. “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” ― Proverbs 31:25
42. “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
43. “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” — Michelle Obama
44. “The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.” ― Amy Tenney
45. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Sally Berger
46. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
47. “I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.” ― Carice van Houten
48. “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” ― Mohadesa Najumi
49. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” — Mary Louise Alcott
50. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” ― Diane Von Furstenberg
51. “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ― Anaïs Nin
52. “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.” — Michelle Obama
53. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
54. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf
55. “Clothes aren't going to change the world. The women who wear them will.” ― Anne Klein
56. “A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” ― Carly Simon
57. “I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not” ― Lucille Ball
58. “A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman – no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.” ― Gail Sheehy
59. “Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.” ― Lena Dunham
60. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.” ― Marie Curie
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Inspirational Quotes for Girls: Makeup, beauty, push-up bras, boyfriends, peer pressure… popular culture has seldom helped the idea of being a girl let alone be motivational. In a society that still has pay inequality, these myths need to be blown apart. As a teenager it is easy to let the opinions of others affect your perception of who strong you are and how beautiful you are. Girls need to feel motivated by their dreams and inspired by the sheer potential of life. It’s about time that everyone stops pitching the ‘princess’ dream to young girls and starts prepping them up to be the warriors that they’ve always been. Boardroom battles, politics, science, space, medicine, leadership – the whole world will be a better place if girls are motivated and inspired just like how boys are. Nothing wrong with being girly and looking pretty – its just that we think that there’s a lot more to life that is typically portrayed to young girls by popular culture. Enough of talk, lets get inspired!
1) Kept promises, not lies. Someone who can make you laugh, not someone who can pay your bills. Handwritten notes, not fake likes. Messy, not salon-fresh hair. Silences, not loud conversations. Old clothes, not new. Rainy nights, not summer evenings. The things in life that really matter are those that seem not to.
2) Why be a damsel in distress and wait for a prince charming when you can be a boss lady and be someone’s queen.
3) Always remember that you are hundred times more beautiful than what you see in the mirror.
4) There are no substitutes for makeup… because the only place makeup will take you is nowhere.
5) Before you feel the need to be pretty, make sure you feel the need to be right.
6) Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany, Theresa May – Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Melinda Gates – Co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sheryl Sandberg – COO Facebook, Mary Barra – CEO General Motors, Susan Wojcicki – CEO YouTube, Abigail Johnson – President-CEO Fidelity Investments, Christine Lagarde – Managing Director International Monetary Fund, Ana Patricia Botin – Executive Chairman Banco Santander, Ginni Rometty – CEO IBM… these are the World’s Most Powerful Women as per Forbes’ 2017 ranking. All these women got to where they are with intelligence, strength, hard-work and following their dreams. Remind this to yourself next time popular culture tries to brainwash you into believing that a girl can’t get anywhere without heels and push-up bras.
7) If you don’t like heels, don’t wear them. If you don’t like push-up bras, don’t wear them. Don’t do anything that you don’t like. Be comfortable in your own skin… that’s the most beautiful you’ll ever be.
8) Never forget that talent and hard work will always triumph pouts and heels.
9) Never ever forget that “Does he deserve you?” is 1000 times more important a question than “Do I deserve him?”
10) We all make mistakes. Time fixes everything, as long as you’re willing to do what it takes to make your journey from nothing to everything.
11) Selfies and pouts will get you more likes, but a degree from a good college will get you a better life.
12) The day you start believing in yourself is the day magic starts to happen.
13) Be a girl who hunts goals. Be a girl who takes courageous decisions. Be a girl who values the truth. Be a girl who lives life on her own terms. Be a girl who’s empathetic. Be a girl whose dreams are big. Be all these things and more… Your life has a purpose… live it to the fullest.
14) Never compromise on two things in life – WHO and WHAT you want in life.
15) Being perfect is passé. Being real, being courageous and being strong is what will take you far in life.
16) From cute Good Mornings to sweet Good Nights, If your entire world revolves around a boy… then find something else for your world to revolve around. Something you’re passionate about. Something you want to do for the rest of your life. A college degree, a job, a business, it could be anything as long as allows you to do magical things with your life.
17) You might not make the right choice every time. But it’s ok, as long as you don’t make the bad ones again.
18) Its ok to cry. Cry, as much as you want. But when you’re done, make sure you step out like nothing happened, ready to conquer the world.
19) Perfect hair, overload of makeup, clothes so tight you can barely breathe, heels so high you can barely walk… be proud if you’re not like that. Be super proud if you’re a girl who truly believes that you don’t need to do any of that to show a guy how beautiful you are. Be proud, because you know that you’re beautiful and nothing can change that.
20) Don’t expect people to respect you until you stop expecting them to do so.
21) The girls vs boys debate is now outdated. If you’re talented and hard-working, nothing and no one can stop you from achieving all that you’ve ever wanted.
22) Why be a pretty princess and remain locked up in your prince’s whims and fancies, when you can be a strong warrior and rule the world.
23) Who needs a knight in shining armor on a horse, when you can get a job and buy a car yourself.
24) Life is not what has happened to you. It’s what you choose to be.
25) Don’t change yourself to make someone love you for what you’re not. Never ever forget that there’s someone out there who will fall in love with who you are… that’s why they’re called soul mates.
26) Not your waist, not your butt, not your bust… the only measurement you need to worry about in life is your bank balance. And that my dear, will come automatically if you study hard, get into a good college and arrive in the world like the fearless fighter that you are. Go on, the world is yours to conquer.
27) Being pretty will get you a few stares. Being strong will earn you respect.
28) Believe in yourself and let everything else be background noise. You’ll be amazed at how far a smile and a never-say-die attitude can take you in life.
29) Your life is a sum of all the choices you make. If you want life to be different, change your choices.
30) If you must be a digger, be a Goal Digger.
31) No matter what, never believe anyone who says that the size of your waist, bust and butt have anything to do with how happy you’ll be in life. It’s a myth and a complete lie. Your happiness depends on the relationships you make, the work you do and the amazing friends you spend time with. Choose them wisely.
32) Anyone who tells you to hide your flaws with makeup is either a salesperson peddling beauty products, or someone with no self-esteem at all. Remember, the only flaw you’ll ever have is to believe that you have one. We’re all perfect in our own special ways.
33) Don’t need a boy. Make a boy need you.
34) Always remember that what you see in the mirror is a thousand times more beautiful than what you think you’re seeing.
35) Remember, intelligent and strong is better than stylish and popular.
36) You could be a Princess and wait for someone to save you, or you could be a Queen and rule… the choices is yours!
37) It’s ok to hide behind a smile when you’re having a bad day… as long as you remember that it’s just a bad day, not a bad life.
38) In reality, your weaknesses are the edges that make you a diamond. If they weren’t there, you’d be as flat as a stone on the beach.
39) Stop believing in fairy tales.. there’s a reason they’re called so.
40) Good things don’t come easy… which is why it ain’t easy being a girl. But once you truly realize that nothing can stop you from chasing your dreams, you’d want it no other way.