Liputan6.com, Jakarta Throughout history, strong women have shaped our world through their courage, wisdom and perseverance. Their words continue to inspire and empower generations of women to reach for their dreams and make their voices heard. This collection of 350 powerful quote strong women celebrates the strength, resilience and brilliance of remarkable women from all walks of life.
Quotes on Inner Strength and Self-Belief
1. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
2. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
3. "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou
4. "The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
5. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
6. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
7. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
8. "I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
9. "The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world." - Ashley Rickards
10. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
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Quotes on Leadership and Making a Difference
11. "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
12. "The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation." - Susan B. Anthony
13. "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
14. "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
15. "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." - Nancy Pelosi
16. "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
17. "In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." - Sheryl Sandberg
18. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
19. "If you want to change the world, help the women." - Michelle Obama
20. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." - Melinda Gates
Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
21. "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels." - Maya Angelou
22. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." - Maya Angelou
23. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
24. "You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'." - Erin McKean
25. "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." - Oprah Winfrey
26. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
27. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
28. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
29. "I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass." - Shonda Rhimes
30. "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." - Roseanne Barr
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Quotes on Self-Love and Authenticity
31. "I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better." - Frida Kahlo
32. "I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna
33. "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
34. "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
35. "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Mary Louise Alcott
36. "A strong woman understands that the 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
37. "I am not a difficult woman at all. I am simply a strong woman and know my worth." - Angelina Jolie
38. "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
39. "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
40. "The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence." - Beyoncé
Quotes on Breaking Barriers
41. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
42. "Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." - Bella Abzug
43. "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
44. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." - Gloria Steinem
45. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." - Mary Wollstonecraft
46. "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart
47. "I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna
48. "We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." - Beyoncé
49. "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
50. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
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Quotes on Resilience and Perseverance
51. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeffe
52. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
53. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
54. "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
55. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
56. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
57. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
58. "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." - Oprah Winfrey
59. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
60. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
Quotes on Education and Knowledge
61. "One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai
62. "The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller
63. "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
64. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
65. "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
66. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
67. "The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice." - Brian Herbert
68. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
69. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
70. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Quotes on Equality and Justice
71. "I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
72. "No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens." - Michelle Obama
73. "Women's rights are human rights." - Hillary Clinton
74. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
75. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
76. "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." - Malala Yousafzai
77. "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
78. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." - Mary Wollstonecraft
79. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." - Gloria Steinem
80. "The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation." - Susan B. Anthony
Quotes on Courage and Boldness
81. "I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger." - Mia Hamm
82. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
83. "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
84. "The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
85. "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels." - Maya Angelou
86. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
87. "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute." - Tina Fey
88. "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
89. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
90. "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
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Quotes on Success and Achievement
91. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
92. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
93. "Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live." - Anne Sweeney
94. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
95. "If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." - Maya Angelou
96. "I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint." - Oprah Winfrey
97. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Sally Berger
98. "Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else." - Sara Blakely
99. "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." - Shonda Rhimes
100. "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton
Quotes on Self-Care and Well-Being
101. "Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel." - Eleanor Brown
102. "Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work." - Ralph Marston
103. "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
104. "You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself." - Wynonna Judd
105. "Self-care is how you take your power back." - Lalah Delia
106. "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." - Jean Shinoda Bolen
107. "Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line." - Lucille Ball
108. "You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first." - Unknown
109. "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde
110. "Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what's left of you." - Katie Reed
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Quotes on Creativity and Innovation
111. "Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
112. "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
113. "Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye." - Dorothy Parker
114. "The creative adult is the child who survived." - Ursula K. Le Guin
115. "Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
116. "Creativity is contagious. Pass it on." - Albert Einstein
117. "To be creative means to be in love with life." - Osho
118. "Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Einstein
119. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
120. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
Quotes on Friendship and Support
121. "A strong woman understands that the 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
122. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
123. "A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform." - Diane Mariechild
124. "We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." - Beyoncé
125. "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
126. "A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." - Coco Chanel
127. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
128. "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
129. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
130. "I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
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Quotes on Perseverance and Determination
131. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeffe
132. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." - Maya Angelou
133. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
134. "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
135. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
136. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
137. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
138. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
139. "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." - Oprah Winfrey
140. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
Quotes on Leadership and Influence
141. "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." - Dolly Parton
142. "Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." - Sheryl Sandberg
143. "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." - Jim Rohn
144. "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
145. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
146. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
147. "If you want to change the world, help the women." - Michelle Obama
148. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." - Melinda Gates
149. "The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation." - Susan B. Anthony
150. "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Quotes on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity
151. "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou
152. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
153. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." - Maya Angelou
154. "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeffe
155. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
156. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
157. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
158. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
159. "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." - Oprah Winfrey
160. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
Quotes on Empowerment and Self-Confidence
161. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
162. "The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
163. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
164. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
165. "I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
166. "The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world." - Ashley Rickards
167. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
168. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." - Melinda Gates
169. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
170. "The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence." - Beyoncé
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Quotes on Breaking Stereotypes
171. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama
172. "Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." - Bella Abzug
173. "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
174. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." - Gloria Steinem
175. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." - Mary Wollstonecraft
176. "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart
177. "I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna
178. "We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." - Beyoncé
179. "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
180. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
Quotes on Pursuing Dreams
181. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
182. "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you." - Marsha Norman
183. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
184. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
185. "Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you." - John Wooden
186. "Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
187. "The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you." - Tom Bradley
188. "A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." - Colin Powell
189. "The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them." - Michelle Obama
190. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
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Quotes on Embracing Change
191. "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
192. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
193. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates
194. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
195. "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
196. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
197. "Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." - Mandy Hale
198. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
199. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." - Oprah Winfrey
200. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
Quotes on Courage and Fearlessness
201. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela
202. "Courage doesn't always roar; it whispers, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
203. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
204. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
205. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings
206. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou
207. "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway
208. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
209. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
210. "It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Quotes on Perseverance and Determination
211. "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot
212. "The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi
213. "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews
214. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
215. "The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying." - John C. Maxwell
216. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
217. "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich
218. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
219. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
220. "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes on Self-Discovery
221. "The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
222. "Know thyself." - Socrates
223. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung
224. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart." - Carl Jung
225. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
226. "The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself." - Thales
227. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle
228. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
229. "To thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare
230. "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." - Alan Alda
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Quotes on Authenticity
231. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
232. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
233. "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are." - Brené Brown
234. "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
235. "I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." - Shirley MacLaine
236. "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche
237. "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
238. "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
239. "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are." - Jim Morrison
240. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." - Frederick Douglass
Quotes on Resilience
241. "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan
242. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." - Jodi Picoult
243. "It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment." - Bram Stoker
244. "Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before." - Elizabeth Edwards
245. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
246. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
247. "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." - Japanese Proverb
248. "It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
249. "Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going." - Yasmin Mogahed
250. "No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear." - Greg Kincaid
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Quotes on Empathy and Compassion
251. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
252. "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer
253. "Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another." - Alfred Adler
254. "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals." - Pema Chödrön
255. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
256. "Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." - Mohsin Hamid
257. "Compassion is the basis of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer
258. "The highest form of knowledge is empathy." - Bill Bullard
259. "Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength." - Dalai Lama
260. "Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of 'You're not alone.'" - Brené Brown
Quotes on Gratitude
261. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough." - Anonymous
262. "Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry Ward Beecher
263. "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero
264. "Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William Arthur Ward
265. "Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for." - Zig Ziglar
266. "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
267. "Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul." - Amy Collette
268. "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." - Aesop
269. "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more." - Melody Beattie
270. "Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
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Quotes on Self-Love
271. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde
272. "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
273. "Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself." - Unknown
274. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
275. "To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley
276. "Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself." - Tyra Banks
277. "You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise Hay
278. "The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." - Steve Maraboli
279. "If you have the ability to love, love yourself first." - Charles Bukowski
280. "Self-love is the source of all our other loves." - Pierre Corneille
Quotes on Mindfulness
281. "The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion." - ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
282. "The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
283. "Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it." - Sharon Salzberg
284. "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
285. "Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
286. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
287. "Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
288. "Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." - Sylvia Boorstein
289. "Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't)." - James Baraz
290. "The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way." - Jack Kornfield
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Quotes on Growth and Personal Development
291. "The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself." - C. JoyBell C.
292. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
293. "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James
294. "Change is the end result of all true learning." - Leo Buscaglia
295. "The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice." - Brian Herbert
296. "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
297. "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." - Thomas Paine
298. "We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
299. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
300. "Growth is the only evidence of life." - John Henry Newman
Quotes on Kindness
301. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
302. "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
303. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
304. "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
305. "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." - Amelia Earhart
306. "Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." - Robert Green Ingersoll
307. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
308. "Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome." - Amelia Barr
309. "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
310. "Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes." - Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Quotes on Wisdom
311. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
312. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle
313. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
314. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
315. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
316. "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi
317. "The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
318. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
319. "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." - Socrates
320. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
Quotes on Forgiveness
321. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
322. "To err is human, to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope
323. "Forgiveness is the final form of love." - Reinhold Niebuhr
324. "The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson
325. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese
326. "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain
327. "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes
328. "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself." - Tony Robbins
329. "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." - Hannah Arendt
330. "The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." - Steve Maraboli
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Quotes on Patience
331. "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." - Joyce Meyer
332. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
333. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
334. "Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine
335. "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." - Saadi
336. "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." - Joyce Meyer
337. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
338. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
339. "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience." - Guy Kawasaki
340. "Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." - David G. Allen
Quotes on Hope
341. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu
342. "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson
343. "Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today." - Thich Nhat Hanh
344. "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." - Robert Green Ingersoll
345. "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." - Samuel Smiles
346. "Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle
347. "Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man." - Pliny the Elder
348. "Hope is patience with the lamp lit." - Tertullian
349. "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man." - Victor Hugo
350. "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon
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Kesimpulan
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