Although the world has been changing quickly, girls in some parts of the country, or internationally, still face people who may be trying to hold them back. In a lot of countries, the birth of a son is seen as a blessing. But parents, specially the elders don’t rejoice as much when a daughter is born. Or at least they did not historically. Boys are given countless privileges, whilst girls are always told that they can’t do certain things, or can’t be what they want just because they are girls’! Many don’t even provide basic education to the female children.
Instead of looking at her strength, intelligence and other virtues, she is often judged by her outer beauty and appearance. The society has made scores of rules and regulations for the girls about how they conduct themselves. Yes, humans have progressed and yet at times, it is difficult to be a girl.
Are you told about your limitations and not offered opportunities like the boys? Fret not. Here are amazing famous quotes for girls who carved out a name for themselves. We hope these can inspire you and keep you focused on the path to stay true to your heart.
Quotes For Girls
1.“Who runs the world? Girls.” – Beyoncé Knowles
2.“I am willing to put myself through anything, temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.” – Diana Nyad.
3.“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” – Caroline Myss.
4.“Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!” – Gabby Douglas
5.“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6.“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” – William Shakespeare
7.“Being a girl doesn’t make you weak, Parker. It makes you special.” – Ali Novak
8.“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” – Bethany Hamilton
9.“As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.” – Laura Marano
10.“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
11.“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
12.“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” – Emma Watson
13.“Even if I am a girl, even if people think I can’t do it, I should not lose hope.” – Malala Yousafzai
14.“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.” – Taylor Swift
15.“For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.” – Sally Ride
16.“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.” – Amy Sherman-Palladino
17.“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow.” – Marissa Mayer
18.“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” – Katherine Johnson
19.“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” – Susan B. Anthony
20.“Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it’s easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn’t earn the right to vote for another eight years.” – Anna Maria Chavez
21.“I’m an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.” – Ani DiFranco
22.“Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.” – Sydney Marie Hughes
23.“Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.” – Katherine McNamara
24.“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright
25.“Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.” – Tory Johnson
26.“I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.” – Laurie Hernandez
27.“Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.” – Kristin Halbrook
28.“I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
29.“It’s not the size of the girl in the fight that counts… it’s the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL” – G. Willow Wilson
30.“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
31.“I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying – trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.” – Roxane Gay
32.“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
33.“I am a crafty girl. I make things. Lots of things. I’ll keep making things until my fingers fall off. Then I will grab my hot glue those suckers, and make more things!” – Kethy Jeffords
34.“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.” – Maya Angelou
35.“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
36.“I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That’s my goal – to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.” – Nicki Minaj
37.“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton
38.“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint.” – Oprah Winfrey
39.“Never dull yourself down for people who cannot handle your edge.” – K. Azizian
40.“I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” – Calamity Jane
41.“In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.” – Sonia Sotomayor
42.“To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” – Hillary Clinton
43.“Why can’t a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?” – Cat Winters
44.“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
45.“My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little fast he could too.” – Mia Hamm
46.“You need to find the power within to make things happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.” – Christina Aguilera
47.“My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.” – Paulina Rubio
48.“No matter what you look like or think you look like, you’re special, and loved, and perfect just the way you are.” - Ariel Winter
49.“I’ve reached a point where I’m comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I’m built the way I am. The dancer’s feet, the bruises on my legs, they’re not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.” – Nina Dobrev
50.“You are enough. You have always been enough.” – K. Azizian
51.“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.” – Malala Yousafzai
52.“Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.” – Victoria Justice
53.“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
54.“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
55.“I wasn’t the prettiest girl in the room, but I learned to carry myself with confidence – that’s how you make the best impression on people.” – Priyanka Chopra
56.“No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I’m capable of. That I’m a girl… a woman who will fight to survive.” – Sophie Jordan
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57.“Part of the great challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment, of seizing the opportunities that you are given, and of making the very best choices you can.” – Hillary Clinton
58.“You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy.” – Selena Gomez
59.“Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.” – Steve Maraboli
60.“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” – Melissa Etheridge
61.“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. So let’s keep going – let’s keep going until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves to have.” – Hillary Clinton
62.“I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.” – Malala Yousafzai
63.“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
64.“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.” – Willa Cather
65.“I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.” – Ariana Grande
66.“The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.” – Ashley Rickards
67.“That’s the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey – and know they can win a gold medal, too.” – Angela Ruggiero
68.“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
69.“I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself.” – Paris Hilton
70.“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.” – Steffi Graf
71.“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
72.“We girls, we’re tough, darling. Soft on the outside but, deep down, we’re tough.” – Kristen Ashley
73.“Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.” – Ellen Ochoa
74.“When I look back over my life, it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.” – Jane Goodall
75.“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
76.“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick
77.“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.” – Erma Bombeck
78.“You are still young, free. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
Can You Inspire a Girl You Know With These Quotes?
Yes, the world can be tough but there are some girls who won’t listen to the norms and stay determined to chart their own course in life. Did you know that J. K. Rowling was turned down by many publishers. Amelia Earhart – the first female aviator to fly solo – was told that girls can’t fly an aircraft.
But these girls and young women followed their hearts and realized their dreams. And you can too! True beauty is not only about outward appearance. We hope that these inspiring quotes for girls will motivate you to be strong, be brave and chase your dream till you succeed. Print out these quotes and put them up on the wall to inspire you today!
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