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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.
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
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
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.
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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
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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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May you rise and continue to take one step after another. And may blessings follow you.
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Inspiration is subjective, as different people will find different things to be inspiring. However, Christians can unite around one inspirational source—God himself. God is the basis for all of our inspiration because He is the basis for everything good and everything worth imitating.
Here, are our favorite Christian inspirational quotes from a variety of influential Christians that inspire us and point us back to Christ. Enjoy these many different thoughts on the Christian life and read them throughout the day for encouragement and inspiration in your faith walk.
40 Christian Inspirational Quotes
1. 'Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper
2. 'God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine
3. 'God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile' - Max Lucado
4. 'God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.' - Hudson Taylor
5. 'God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.' - Tony Evans
6. 'Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie ten Boom
7. 'Christ literally walked in our shoes.' - Tim Keller
8. 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.' - Jim Elliot
9. 'Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.' - Lysa Terkeurst
10. '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.' - Martin Luther King Jr.
11. 'Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.' - Francis Chan
12. 'If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!' - D.L. Moody
13. 'You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.' - John MacArthur
14. 'We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot.' - Eleanor Roosevelt
15. 'He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain.' - Randy Alcorn
16. 'God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
17. 'The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham
18. 'Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one' - A.W.Tozer
19. 'If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.' - Elisabeth Elliot
20. “There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God.' - Alistair Begg
21. 'Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.' –C. S. Lewis
22. 'This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet.' - Beth Moore
23. 'The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.' - Abraham Lincoln
24. 'Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life.' - Charles Stanley
25. 'The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.' - Helen Keller
26. 'We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.' - Chuck Swindoll
27. 'Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.' - Mother Teresa
28. 'The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.' - Matt Chandler
29. 'Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.' - Winston Churchill
30. 'God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” - John Piper
31. 'Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.' - Elisabeth Elliot
32. 'God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.' - Tony Evans
33. 'Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.' - Corrie Ten Boom
34. 'The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.' -Billy Graham
35. 'The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.'- Matt Chandler
36. 'God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.' - Christine Caine
37. 'What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.'- Rick Warren
38. 'Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.' -Oswald Chambers
39. 'We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose.' - Priscilla Shirer
40. 'There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord.' - Franklin Graham
Plus 10 Christian Inspirational Quotes from the Bible:
- 'The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.' - Zephaniah 3:17
- 'Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.' - Isaiah 40:28-31
- 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.' - John 15:13
- 'For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.' - Romans 8:38-39
- 'Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.' - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
- 'What, then, shall we say in response? If God is for us, who can be against us?' - Romans 8:31
- 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.' - Deuteronomy 31:6
- 'So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.' - Isaiah 41:10
- 'I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.' - Philippians 4:13
- 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.' Matthew 11:28
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